• Craft and Criticism

    Childless Cat Ladies

    Beyond Mothering: Considering Ann Patchett’s Novels of Maternal Ambivalence

    By Monica Cardenas  August 15, 2024
    Publishing

    Despite the Chaos of the Presidential Election, There Will Be More Than Enough Books This Fall

    By Maris Kreizman  August 15, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 15, 2024
    Mental health

    Zen, with Legos: How Playing with Blocks Helped Colleen McKeegan Make Sense of Bad Reviews

    By Colleen McKeegan  August 15, 2024
    Journalism

    What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

    By Holly Baxter  August 15, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Bill Schutt Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 15, 2024
    Road Trips

    A Literary Road Trip Across America

    By Literary Hub  August 14, 2024
    literary criticism

    “A Countrified Rumpelstiltskin.” On the Visceral, Versatile Stories of Brad Watson

    By Snowden Wright  August 14, 2024
    The Writing Life

    How the Prospect of Publishing Can Paralyze the Writing Process

    By Sofia Samatar  August 14, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Suyi Davies Okungbowa & Brenda Peynado on Futures Bleak and Hopeful

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 14, 2024
    Creative Partnerships

    How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

    By Camille Peri  August 13, 2024
    In Conversation

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 13, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Acamea Deadwiler on Rescuing the Little Girl Inside Her

    By I'm a Writer But   August 13, 2024
    Writing the Novel

    Pride, Prejudice, Sex, and Drugs: How Jane Austen Helped Me Write a Profane Novel

    By Sarah Seltzer  August 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2024
    First Draft

    Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 12, 2024
    Write-minded

    Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito on Writing the Story You Have to Write

    By Write-minded   August 12, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  August 9, 2024
    On Translation

    Bringing Felice Bauer to Life in Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka

    By Alex Zucker  August 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Flynn Berry on an Underrated Tool for Character Development: Grocery Shopping

    By Flynn Berry  August 9, 2024
    Protest

    When the Best Possible Story is Right Outside Your Door

    By Nathan Deuel  August 9, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Friends Have Bad Taste in Poetry and I Want to Tell Them: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  August 8, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 8, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 8, 2024
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