• Craft and Criticism

    Language

    On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

    By Jason Guriel  August 13, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Enduring Appeal of Fictional Sisters: A Reading List

    By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb  August 13, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

    By Maurice Carlos Ruffin  August 13, 2021
    The Common

    Emma Sloley on Exploring Fear and Violence in Intimate Relationships

    By The Common  August 13, 2021
    The Hub

    “I’ll take my characters to bed.” Walter Dean Myers on his writing process and routines.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  August 12, 2021
    Immigration

    Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

    By Elly Fishman  August 12, 2021
    #MeToo

    The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

    By Jane Healey  August 12, 2021
    Book Research

    So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist…

    By Rachel Pastan  August 12, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Jo Ann Beard on the “Rigorous Refusal” to Waste a Reader’s Time

    By Book Dreams  August 12, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Nana Nkweti in Conversation with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 12, 2021
    Freedom of Speech

    Hateful Fictions: Siri Hustvedt on the Weaponization of Free Speech

    By Siri Hustvedt  August 11, 2021
    Science fiction

    In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

    By Daniel LoPilato  August 11, 2021
    Criticism

    On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

    By Kyle Beachy  August 11, 2021
    Illness

    Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

    By Eleanor Henderson  August 11, 2021
    On Writing

    Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

    By Angel Khoury  August 11, 2021
    Thresholds

    Mary Ruefle on How Art Exploded Her World

    By Thresholds   August 11, 2021
    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
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