• Craft and Criticism

    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: “What is Energizing to You?”

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   February 21, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

    By Eric Puchner  February 21, 2025
    In Conversation

    Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

    By Eli Zuzovsky  February 21, 2025
    Climate Fiction

    WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

    By Madeleine Watts  February 20, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 20, 2025
    What to Watch

    What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 20, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  February 20, 2025
    Self-Publishing

    Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish

    By Lewis Buzbee  February 20, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 20, 2025
    Adaptations

    RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

    By Brittany Allen  February 19, 2025
    Walking

    How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir’s Art and Thought

    By Annabel Abbs  February 19, 2025
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    By Rebecca Romney  February 19, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

    By Elyse Durham  February 19, 2025
    Storytelling

    Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

    By Nick Newman  February 19, 2025
    Fathers and Daughters

    What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

    By Emily J. Smith  February 19, 2025
    In Conversation

    Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

    By Aaron Robertson  February 19, 2025
    Austen

    Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives:
    A Reading List

    By Rebecca Romney  February 18, 2025
    Feminism

    How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

    By Sophie Lewis  February 18, 2025
    In Conversation

    Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 18, 2025
    Philosophy

    What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

    By Adam Plunkett  February 18, 2025
    Narrators

    Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

    By Sarah Lyn Rogers  February 18, 2025
    New Books Tuesdays

    Robert Frost! SNL! Madeleine Watts! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 18, 2025
    Awakeners

    T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

    By Awakeners   February 18, 2025
    Write-minded

    Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

    By Write-minded   February 18, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  February 14, 2025
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