• Craft and Advice

    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”

     
    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

    By David Hill  April 18, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    craft advice

    Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

    By Christine Ma-Kellams  April 17, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy’s Mistakes

    By History of Literature  April 17, 2024
    Audiobooks

    The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

    By Lissa Soep  April 16, 2024
    Libraries

    An Oasis in the Desert: Why Libraries Are the Best Places to Write

    Rahul Mehta Considers the Virtues of Public Space as Writing Space

    By Rahul Mehta  April 19, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

    By Steve Almond  April 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Julia Alvarez on Mortality

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    John McMurtrie on the State of the Book Review

    By Write-minded   April 15, 2024
    Craft of Writing

    50 Ways to End a Poem

    Emily Skaja Has Some Recommendations for Making a Strong Exit

    By Emily Skaja  April 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Busting Genre, in Style: Geoff Dyer on the Joy of Writing “Unpublishable” Books

    By George Makari  April 11, 2024
    Cultural Identity

    Opa! It’s All Greek to Me! Subverting the Tropes of Greek Culture in Media

    By Henriette Lazaridis  April 11, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

    By Dennis Tang  April 11, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Phil Jones on Why We Read Samuel Johnson

    From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2024
    True Crime

    Real People, Real Pain: On the Ethics of Telling True Stories of Trauma

    By Philip Eil  April 10, 2024
    Nature Writing

    What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

    By Fiona Williams  April 10, 2024
    literary criticism

    A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

    By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
    craft advice

    Katrina Carrasco on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

    “I’ll always celebrate tall, strong women in my novels—partly as a love letter to myself, and partly as one to readers.”

    By Katrina Carrasco  April 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  April 9, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Jo Livingstone on Not Believing in Anachronism

    By The Critic and Her Publics   April 9, 2024
    Writing the Book

    Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

    By Brianna Pastor  April 16, 2024
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