• Craft and Criticism

    Lit Century

    How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

    By Lit Century   September 21, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    “The Writer You Are is Enough.” Ruth Ozeki on Process and Acceptance

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
    Classics

    Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

    By Randy Boyagoda  September 21, 2021
    Literary History

    When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

    By Literary Hub  September 21, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book… The Hobbit

    By Book Marks  September 21, 2021
    On Craft

    In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

    By Lincoln Michel  September 21, 2021
    Silicon Valley

    Understanding the Pervasive Influence of Silicon Valley: On Peter Thiel and the Sprawling History of the Tech Industry

    By Max Chafkin  September 21, 2021
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to get you out of your pandemic reading funk.

    By Katie Yee  September 21, 2021
    The Hub

    “Write the tale that scares you . . . I dare you.” Michaela Coel has some writing advice for us.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 20, 2021
    The Holocaust

    Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

    By David Rieff  September 20, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

    By History of Literature  September 20, 2021
    Poetry

    What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

    By Aruni Kashyap  September 20, 2021
    dialogue

    The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

    By Dan O'Brien  September 20, 2021
    First Draft

    Kevin McIlvoy on a Novel Can Make Room for Dynamic Crowding

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 20, 2021
    The Hub

    How to write like Cheryl Strayed.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  September 17, 2021
    Rereadings

    Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

    By Josh Cook  September 17, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

    By Corinne Segal  September 17, 2021
    Beyond the Page

    Patrick Radden Keefe on the Fine Line Between Reporting and Storytelling

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  September 17, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Using Reinvention as a Writing Tool

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

    By Margaret Renkl  September 17, 2021
    The Writing Life

    From Exobiology and Geology to… Writing Fiction?

    By Linda Rui Feng  September 17, 2021
    Literary History

    An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000…
    But Was it Stolen?

    By Jen DeGregorio  September 16, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    You Want Voice? It’s Everywhere in Contemporary Fiction

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2021
    Memoir

    Encountering Annie Ernaux’s Urban Landscapes and Scattered Selves

    By Lauren Elkin  September 16, 2021
    Mental Illness

    On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

    By Louise Nealon  September 16, 2021
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