“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

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Adrian Van Young on the Monstrous Stories That Shaped Him

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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

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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

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Patty Crane on Translation and Influence

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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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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

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