Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

“You will have to do it over and over again, and it will never, ever become less fraught. In fact, it shouldn’t.”

By Karen Outen | February 7, 2024

Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ <em>Mouchette</em>

Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 7, 2024

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

Rebecca K Reilly on the Editors Who Told Her to Change Her Novel for an American Audience

By Rebecca K Reilly | February 7, 2024

Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare's Manuscripts

Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare's Manuscripts

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 7, 2024

Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | February 6, 2024

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 5, 2024

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Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

By Rick Bass | February 2, 2024

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

By Chris Cander | February 2, 2024

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

By Rebecca Solnit | January 31, 2024

Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

“Reframing work is an ongoing and sometimes impossible-seeming process.”

By Brandi Wells | January 31, 2024

Gregory Pardlo on the Psychology of Tennis, Historical Omissions, and Wanting to Be an Architect

Gregory Pardlo on the Psychology of Tennis, Historical Omissions, and Wanting to Be an Architect

The Author of “Spectral Evidence” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 30, 2024

Andrea Long Chu on Liking and Hating

Andrea Long Chu on Liking and Hating

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 30, 2024

“I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” Padgett Powell, Legend

“I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” Padgett Powell, Legend

Jean Marc Ah-Sen Talks to the Author of “Edisto”

By Jean Marc Ah-Sen | January 30, 2024

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

Aminatta Forna on Over Two Decades of Literary Excavation of Sierra Leone’s Civil War

By Aminatta Forna | January 29, 2024

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

Rachel Gordan on the Epistolary Relationships Maintained by the Author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

By Rachel Gordan | January 29, 2024

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

By Aisha Abdel Gawad | January 29, 2024

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