Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 14, 2022

Read William Faulkner’s 1952 Adulation of Hemingway’s <em>The Old Man and the Sea</em>

Read William Faulkner’s 1952 Adulation of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea

“Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us.”

By Book Marks | September 13, 2022

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s <em>The Betrothed</em>

Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

“The fruit of the union between an author and a translator is what enables literature to proliferate and seduce readers.”

By Jhumpa Lahiri | September 13, 2022

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

Randall Munroe Provides a Serious Answer To a Very Hypothetical Literary Question

By Randall Munroe | September 13, 2022

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

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

Featuring A.M. Homes, Hua Hsu, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | September 13, 2022

Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

Naming What Can Be Lost: Matthew Zapruder on Poems for Dire Times

“The greatest poems demand change. Maybe we need to change to meet them.”

By Matthew Zapruder | September 13, 2022

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Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

By Jane Ciabattari | September 13, 2022

Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

By I'm a Writer But | September 13, 2022

Deforming Medium: A Reading List of Experimental Points of View

By Jonathan Dee | September 13, 2022

24 glorious new books to welcome into the world today.

24 glorious new books to welcome into the world today.

By Katie Yee | September 13, 2022

“I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

“I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

From the The Search for the Genuine: Selected Nonfiction, 1970-2015

By Jim Harrison | September 12, 2022

Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects

Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects

From Dashiel Carrera, Matthew Vollmer, Matthew Tomkinson, Julie Carr, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen

By Dashiel Carrera | September 12, 2022

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz Considers the Competing Demands of Career and Childcare

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz | September 12, 2022

Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

Read Some of Annette Dauphin Simon’s Book Spine Poetry

What Happens When You Read a Bookshelf?

By Annette Dauphin Simon | September 12, 2022

Carlos Allende: How to Make Stories More Compelling

Carlos Allende: How to Make Stories More Compelling

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 12, 2022

Here We Go Again: <em>The Rings of Power</em> Gives Us Yet Another Abdicated Royal

Here We Go Again: The Rings of Power Gives Us Yet Another Abdicated Royal

Tolkien Devotee Jenna Kass and Fantasy Philistine Dylan Roth Recap Episode 3

By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth | September 9, 2022

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