• Craft and Criticism

    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Brandon Hobson, Elissa Washuta, and Dani Putney at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 17, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Your Memoir Will Tick Someone Off, But Not for the Reasons You Think

    By Book Dreams  June 17, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson on Trusting the Reader

    By The Quarantine Tapes  June 17, 2021
    Keen On

    Ron Friedman on Reverse Engineering Creative Breakthroughs

    By Keen On  June 17, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    “19-Year-Old Me Could Not Have Written This Book.” Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time

    By Just the Right Book   June 17, 2021
    Letters

    Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

    By Janet Somerville  June 16, 2021
    Short story writers

    Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?

    By Benjamin Hedin  June 16, 2021
    Self-Publishing

    When You’re Always Going to Be the Second-Most Famous Writer in Your Marriage

    By Neal Allen  June 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Asako Serizawa on the Inheritors of Imperialism and War

    By Keen On  June 16, 2021
    Otherppl

    “It’s Not Something I Would Recommend.” Lana Bastašić on Translating Her Own Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 16, 2021
    Thresholds

    Patrick Cottrell: How Autofiction Has Taken the Pressure Off Character Transformation

    By Thresholds   June 16, 2021
    Reading Women

    In Praise of Aging Protagonists in Literature

    By Reading Women  June 16, 2021
    Interview

    Joshua Henkin on Eschewing Big Reveals and Knowing Your Characters’ Birthdays

    By Ellen Adams  June 16, 2021
    NewberyTart

    How Shiloh Illuminates the Right Thing… and the
    “Righter” Thing

    By NewberyTart   June 16, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books for your midsummer reading.

    By Katie Yee  June 15, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City… Only to Disappear Into It

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 15, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Nana Nkweti on the Impact of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Complexities of Multicultural Identity

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 15, 2021
    Lit Century

    Grappling with Yukio Mishima’s Murderous Children

    By Lit Century   June 15, 2021
    Memoir

    “Camp is a Sensibility.” On Susan Sontag, Extravagance, and Sexuality

    By Amelia Abraham  June 15, 2021
    Genre

    The Perks of Reading Across Genre as Both Bookseller and Writer

    By Marissa Levien  June 15, 2021
    Craft

    On Deciding to Tell My Story in a Novel Instead of a Memoir

    By Brittany Ackerman  June 15, 2021
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Jews in Space: On the Unsung History of Jewish Writers and the Birth of Science Fiction

    By Lavie Tidhar  June 14, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Rivka Galchen Talks Writer’s Block and Her Pandemic Cat

    By Literary Hub  June 14, 2021
    Cults

    How—and Why—Americans Become Susceptible to the Toxic Allure of Cults

    By Dr. Kate Gale  June 14, 2021
    Audiobooks

    How Stories Change When They Move From Page to Voice

    By Laura Lindstedt, translated by David Hackston  June 14, 2021
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