• Craft and Criticism

    NewberyTart

    On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

    By NewberyTart   August 11, 2021
    Reading Women

    Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Commodification of Blackness, in Publishing and Beyond

    By Reading Women  August 11, 2021
    Close Reading

    Was Bridget Jones’s Diary the First Internet Novel?

    By Emily Temple  August 10, 2021
    Interview

    Sabina Murray on the Limits of Journalism and the Wondrous Possibilities of Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 10, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 10, 2021
    Horror

    Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

    By Virginia Feito  August 10, 2021
    First Draft

    Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on Articulating Grief to Find the Way Back to Reality

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 9, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

    By James Tate Hill  August 9, 2021
    Medicine

    The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

    By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel  August 9, 2021
    Scandinavian Literature

    On the Rise of the Icelandic Saga as Written Literature

    By Arthur Herman  August 9, 2021
    In Conversation

    A History of the Future: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Shayla Lawson, and Meredith Talusan

    By Literary Hub  August 8, 2021
    The Hub

    After Lord Byron: poetic advice for the modern poet (in couplets).

    By Jason Guriel  August 6, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

    By Sara Batkie  August 6, 2021
    Reading Lists

    7 Music Novels to Shape Your Summer Soundtrack

    By Allison Larkin  August 6, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

    By Larissa Pham  August 6, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Kelsey McKinney on Megachurches, Girlhood, and Staying Faithful to Her Book

    By The Maris Review  August 5, 2021
    Punk Rock

    Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

    By Rachel Kushner  August 5, 2021
    Writer's Homes

    Getting to Know an Author Through Their Home

    By Amy Belding Brown  August 5, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and Sustaining—Creativity

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2021
    Marriage

    Inside the Mind—and Heart—of the Other Woman: On Thought-Provoking Infidelity Narratives

    By Katherine Ashenburg  August 5, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Katie Kitamura in Conversation with Raven Leilani

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 5, 2021
    On Translation

    The Parallel Lives of Translators: On Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel

    By Annie McDermott  August 5, 2021
    The Hub

    A close reading of a great American poem: Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.”

    By Jonny Diamond  August 4, 2021
    Artists in Conversation

    The Wyrd Ones: A Conversation Between Robert Macfarlane and Johnny Flynn

    By Meg Thomann  August 4, 2021
    Family Stories

    The DNA of Storytelling: Making the Case for Messy Family Books

    By Tracey Lange  August 4, 2021
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