You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

From Poet Jennifer Grotz’s Bennington MFA Commencement Speech

By Jennifer Grotz | July 20, 2023

What We’re Reading at <em>Just the Right Book</em> This Week

What We’re Reading at Just the Right Book This Week

Roxanne Coady and Bill Goldstein Weigh in With Recommendations

By Just the Right Book | July 20, 2023

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 20, 2023

Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

The Author of Crook Manifesto Discusses the Latest Installment of his Sweeping Crime History of New York City.

By Dwyer Murphy | July 19, 2023

Essie Fox Reads From <em>The Fascination</em>

Essie Fox Reads From The Fascination

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | July 19, 2023

24 new books out today.

24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 18, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

By Andrew Leland | July 18, 2023

How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

By Alfred J. Naddaff | July 18, 2023

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

By Patrick Gale | July 18, 2023

In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

Stephanie Bishop on Losing a Manuscript, Starting Over, and Learning to Swing a Literary Wrecking Ball at Her Work

By Stephanie Bishop | July 18, 2023

Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Vanishing Maps

By Jane Ciabattari | July 18, 2023

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

On Jon Klassen, Ruth Krauss, and the Grown-Up Weight of Nostalgia

By Janet Manley | July 17, 2023

The Complicated Afterlives of <br>Roberto Bolaño

The Complicated Afterlives of
Roberto Bolaño

Twenty Years After His Death, Aaron Shulman Unpacks the Legacy of the Chilean Poet and Novelist

By Aaron Shulman | July 17, 2023

Chuck Tingle on How Writing is Like Driving, Being an Autistic Artist, and More

Chuck Tingle on How Writing is Like Driving, Being an Autistic Artist, and More

The Author of Camp Damascus Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | July 17, 2023

The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

“The freedom of erasure is its greatest allure.”

By Lawrence Sutin | July 17, 2023

Stephen Buoro on How <em>A Clockwork Orange</em> Shook His World

Stephen Buoro on How A Clockwork Orange Shook His World

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 17, 2023

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