• Craft and Advice

    Big Table

    Matthew Specktor on the Cultural Memory of Los Angeles

    By Big Table  February 14, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Chuck Klosterman on Writing Criticism for a Wide Audience

    By Chuck Klosterman  February 11, 2022
    Therapy

    How Narrative Therapy Can Help Us Take Ownership of Our Stories

    By Veronica Esposito  February 11, 2022
    On Race

    How Stories Emerge from Afro-Diasporic Collective Memory

    By Destiny O. Birdsong  February 11, 2022
    Otherppl

    Antoine Wilson on Finding a Piece of His New Novel in a 20-Year-Old File

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 10, 2022
    Skateboarding

    How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  February 9, 2022
    Psychology

    How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

    By Moshe Bar  February 9, 2022
    Thresholds

    Kiese Laymon on Revision as Love, and Love as Revision

    By Thresholds   February 9, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2022
    Good Sex

    Some Fundamental Principles for Writing Great Sex

    By Rebecca Sacks  February 8, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    “Every Time You Eat a Bagel It’s a Fuckin’ Crime.” Liv Stratman on Writing About Diet Culture

    By I'm a Writer But   February 8, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  February 8, 2022
    Physics

    On Taking Writing Lessons from Quantum Physics

    By Hisham Bustani  February 4, 2022
    Letters

    The Lion Speaks: On the Potency of the Epistolary Form

    By Daniel Black  February 4, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life

    By Amor Towles  February 4, 2022
    Craft

    How to Read a Play as a Manual for Novel Writing

    By Julia May Jonas  February 3, 2022
    First Draft

    Peter Ho Davies on Why We Fear Revision (and How to Get Over It)

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2022
    Craft

    Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

    By Bernardine Evaristo  February 3, 2022
    Illustrations

    Some Helpful Metaphors for Writing a Novel, Illustrated

    By Swan Huntley  February 3, 2022
    Money

    Easy Come, Easy Go: Lan Samantha Chang on Writing, Debt, and Diamonds

    By Lan Samantha Chang  February 1, 2022
    American Classics

    How the Male Point of View Shapes the Narrative of The Great Gatsby

    By Jillian Cantor  February 1, 2022
    True Crime

    Exploring the Moral Landscape of John Darnielle’s Fictional Universe

    By Matt Mitchell  January 31, 2022
    Cooking

    In a Gazan Home in California, Two Writers Share a Taste of Home

    By Raj Tawney  January 31, 2022
    The Writing Life

    The Courage to Write: On the Radical Generosity of Letting Yourself Be Seen

    By Robin Marie MacArthur  January 28, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

    By Maeve Higgins  January 28, 2022
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