• Craft and Criticism

    Asian American Literature

    Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

    By Cherry Lou Sy  October 11, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

    By Mark Haber  October 11, 2024
    Craft

    Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers

    By Shelley Noble  October 11, 2024
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  October 11, 2024
    Westerns

    Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

    By Maris Kreizman  October 10, 2024
    Influences

    From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

    By Michael Lynn Crews  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

    By Samantha Greene Woodruff  October 10, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Don’t Always Make the Best Speakers

    By Kate Greathead  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 10, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 10, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 9, 2024
    Folklore

    Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

    By Ben Edge  October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    Family Stories

    Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

    By Rachel Robbins  October 9, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

    By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 8, 2024
    Income Inequality

    “Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

    By Douglas Unger  October 7, 2024
    The Writing Life

    On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

    By Steve Wasserman  October 7, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Satanic Sympathies: On the Demon Depictions That Helped Jamie Quarto Write Two-Step Devil

    By Jamie Quatro  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    French literature

    All or Nothing: Deborah Levy on Marguerite Duras’s The Lover

    By Deborah Levy  October 7, 2024
    Mythology

    Translating the Ancient Language of The Vetala Tales

    By Douglas J. Penick  October 7, 2024
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on Catching Up with the Unconscious

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 7, 2024
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