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How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

By Jonny Diamond | May 27, 2025

20 Years of <em>Getting Lost</em>: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

“All of us are continually gathering ideas, stories, glimpses, encounters that we can sift through to find constellations of meaning."

By Rebecca Solnit | May 27, 2025

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

The Author of "Disappoint Me" Reflects on Readers Seeing Her and Themselves in Fiction's Mirror

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

Honor Jones on Exploring the Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

Honor Jones on Exploring the Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Sleep"

By Jane Ciabattari | May 27, 2025

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Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

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Vauhini Vara on Where Self Meets Technology

By Memoir Nation | May 26, 2025

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Summer Reading and Writing Buddies

By The Lit Hub Podcast | May 23, 2025

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

The Secret Link Between Raymond Chandler and P.G. Wodehouse

Arvind Ethan David on the Surprising Connection Between Two Legendary Authors

By Arvind Ethan David | May 23, 2025

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

T.J. Martinson Explores the Narrative Role of Sight on the Page and in the Real World

By T.J. Martinson | May 23, 2025

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Nonfiction Against the End of the World: An Apocalypse Reading List

Martha Park Recommends Mark O’Connell, Emily Raboteau, Jeff Sharlet and More

By Martha Park | May 23, 2025

Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s <em>Her Smoke Rose Up Forever</em>

Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Elizabeth Costello Considers the Socially Aware Subtext of a Pseudonymous Master of Speculative Fiction

By Elizabeth Costello | May 23, 2025

Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

Considering Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty"

By Richard Russo | May 23, 2025

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

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By Book Marks | May 23, 2025

Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 22, 2025

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