Am I the Literary Assh*le? In Which Everyone Talks Sh*t About Everyone Else

Am I the Literary Assh*le? In Which Everyone Talks Sh*t About Everyone Else

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 22, 2024

Leslie Jamison Writes Into the Trouble

Leslie Jamison Writes Into the Trouble

The Author of Splinters Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | February 22, 2024

Erica Berry on the Polyamorous Intimacy of Reader, Author, and Audiobook Narrator

Erica Berry on the Polyamorous Intimacy of Reader, Author, and Audiobook Narrator

"It had not occurred to me that the thing I was drawn to was what I felt most lacking in myself: an even-keeled authority."

By Erica Berry | February 22, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Reading it is brutal because McCullers’s life was brutal to endure.”

By Book Marks | February 22, 2024

Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

Terry Golway on the Importance of Exploring Opposing Ideas On and Off the Page

By Terry Golway | February 22, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aisha Sabatini Sloan Is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Eve Babitz, Renee Gladman, Nicolette Polek, and More

By Diana Arterian | February 22, 2024

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Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 22, 2024

UFO, or Unidentified Female Observer: Kirsten Bakis on the Undersung Life of Anna Fort

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

John Keene on Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 21, 2024

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

By Dan Sheehan | February 21, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

What Writing TV Soap Operas Taught Me About Writing Novels

What Writing TV Soap Operas Taught Me About Writing Novels

Ellen Feldman on the Fine Art of the Commercial Break

By Ellen Feldman | February 21, 2024

Lily Gladstone on Chekhov and Listening

Lily Gladstone on Chekhov and Listening

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | February 21, 2024

Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | February 20, 2024

How <em>The Prophet</em> Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

How The Prophet Made Kahlil Gibran a Household Name in America

The Late Joan Acocella on the Complex and Contradictory Life of a New Age Icon

By Joan Acocella | February 20, 2024

Finding a Writing Life of <br>One’s Own

Finding a Writing Life of
One’s Own

“I was not writing as an act of defiance or service or claim to myself. I was writing because I wanted to.”

By Seema Reza | February 20, 2024

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