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Open Your Mouth and Sing: Frode Grytten on Becoming a Writer and Growing Up in Norway

Open Your Mouth and Sing: Frode Grytten on Becoming a Writer and Growing Up in Norway

“To write is to transport yourself to another world, to step into the lives of others, but also to connect yourself to those lives...”

By Frode Grytten | November 18, 2025

An Anniversary That Bears Fruit: <em>Oranges</em>, 40 Years On

An Anniversary That Bears Fruit: Oranges, 40 Years On

Jeanette Winterson Remembers the Creative Process Behind Her Groundbreaking First Novel

By Jeanette Winterson | November 17, 2025

Beth Macy on Writing to Explore Why We’re So Divided

Beth Macy on Writing to Explore Why We’re So Divided

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | November 17, 2025

Stewart O'Nan on Moderating Sentimentality

Stewart O'Nan on Moderating Sentimentality

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | November 17, 2025

Bad Art and Sheep Covers on The Lit Hub Podcast

Bad Art and Sheep Covers on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Anna Hogeland, Celia Mattison, Drew Broussard, and a phone call from Ryan Chapman

By The Lit Hub Podcast | November 14, 2025

Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure

Jen Percy on the Subversive Possibilities of Structure

When Form Follows Function

By Jen Percy | November 14, 2025

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Helen Lederer on What It Takes to Be Funny

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Am I the Asshole For Accusing My Friend of Plagiarizing a TV Show?

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When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, <em>The Emergency</em>

When Empire Falls: Talking to George Packer About His New Novel, The Emergency

In Conversation with Andy Hunter About Apocalypse, Societal Division, and the Future of America

By Andy Hunter | November 13, 2025

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

The Power of Illusion: Olivia Laing on Creating a Thriller Inspired by 1970s Italian Cinema

Or, How to Channel the Spirits of Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Danilo Donati in Fiction

By Olivia Laing | November 12, 2025

Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

Writing While Becoming Two: How Motherhood Influenced My Debut Novel

Grace Walker: “Two lives, two minds, combining. It’s the idea that shaped my writing, and now, in a quieter way, my days.”

By Grace Walker | November 12, 2025

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder

“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”

By Emma Darwin | November 12, 2025

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

The Striking Similarities Between Aphorisms and Poetry

“Aphorisms and poems are always idiosyncratic, their output an image supercharged with storytelling specificity.”

By James Geary | November 12, 2025

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

Olivia Laing on Fictionalizing the Murder of Pier Paulo Pasolini

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Silver Book

By Jane Ciabattari | November 11, 2025

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Jen Percy on Self-Preservation, Playing Dead, and Writing About Gendered Violence

Sarah Viren Talks to the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation

By Sarah Viren | November 11, 2025

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