What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

Danielle Trussoni Talks with Four Authors on How Their Fears Make it into Their Fiction

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“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

“Leisure, Labor, Reticence, Violence”: What Horror Films Can Teach Us About Poetry

Justin Phillip Reed Considers Craft and Alienation on the Screen and on the Page

By Justin Phillip Reed | October 31, 2023

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

Michael Lewis on Watching Sam Bankman-Fried

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | October 31, 2023

Tim O'Brien on Letting the World Decide What He'll Read Next

Tim O'Brien on Letting the World Decide What He'll Read Next

The Author of America Fantastica Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

Isabel Cañas on the Gothic and Drawing from Everyday Monsters

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

By Memoir Nation | October 30, 2023

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

"Somewhere along the way, my immersion in Tranströmer and my search for a sense of place merged. As if the poetry became the place, and the place the poetry."

By Patty Crane | October 27, 2023

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Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

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Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

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Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us

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Nonfiction That Rivals <em>Little Women</em>: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

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Liz Rosenberg on the Literary Marvels of Alcott's Memoirs

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Jhumpa Lahiri on the Freedom of Writing

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Maggie Smith on Playing with Narration in Memoir

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Eli Grober on The Art of Satire

Eli Grober on The Art of Satire

"Satire can speak truth to power."

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Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

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"I’m ignorant and confused, even more so than Kafka’s man from the country"

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