• In Conversation

    Literary Criticism

    Allegra Hyde Offers an Existential Pitch for Saving the Planet

    By Keen On  March 30, 2023
    Keen On

    Nicole Chung Tells a Personal Story of Family, Class, Anger, and Grief in an Unequal America

    By Keen On  March 30, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Kelly Link Reads from Her New Short Story Collection White Cat, Black Dog

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  March 29, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Life in the Aftermath: Books That Explore What Happens After Things Go Wrong

    By Tara Conklin  March 29, 2023
    Thresholds

    Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft on the Double-Edged Sword of Being “the First”

    By Thresholds   March 29, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Divine Poetry: Katherine Rundell Shines a Light on John Donne

    By Malcolm Borthwick  March 29, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

    By Literary Hub  March 28, 2023
    Otherppl

    Could You Forgive Someone for Murder? Alex Mar on the Court Case That Inspired Her Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 28, 2023
    Write-minded

    Madelaine Lucas on the Literature of Longing 

    By Write-minded   March 28, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Laura Spence-Ash on Crafting an Epic Family Saga

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 28, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ethan Chatagnier on Bending Genre and Communicating with Aliens

    By I'm a Writer But   March 28, 2023
    First Draft

    Robert Lopez on Life Before We’re Born and Why Memory is Like a Failed Method Actor

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 27, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

    By Keen On  March 27, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

    By History of Literature  March 27, 2023
    Otherppl

    Shannon McLeod on the Emotional Stability of Flash Fiction and Uncertainty of Novel Writing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 24, 2023
    Keen On

    Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

    By Keen On  March 24, 2023
    The Maris Review

    “It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in Biography of X

    By The Maris Review  March 23, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 23, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Julia Samuel on Transgenerational Trauma and Family Well-Being

    By Just the Right Book   March 23, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 23, 2023
    Otherppl

    “The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 22, 2023
    In Conversation

    Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

    By Julia Kovalenko  March 22, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Mona Simpson on the Role of Research in Novel Writing

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 21, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Idra Novey: How to Pack a Punch in a Short Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  March 21, 2023
    Write-minded

    Peggy Orenstein on the Self-improvement Memoir

    By Write-minded   March 21, 2023
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