• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Book Dreams

    Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

    By Book Dreams  September 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

    By The Maris Review  September 16, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    “Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

    By Maureen Freely  September 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Criticism

    Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

    By Stephen Marche  September 15, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Subversive Power of Gossip

    By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

    By Rebecca Mead  September 15, 2021
    New York City

    Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

    By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Sarah Gilmartin Reads from Dinner Party: A Tragedy

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 15, 2021
    new books tuesday

    15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

    By Katie Yee  September 14, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
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