• Craft and Criticism

    Classic Novels

    Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children,
    Forty Years Later

    By Salman Rushdie  April 14, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

    By Jonathan Lethem  April 14, 2021
    Short Stories

    Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

    By Rasheeda Saka  April 14, 2021
    Documentaries

    Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

    By Alex Thomas  April 14, 2021
    Dating

    On the Absolute Chaos of Modern Dating: A Reading List

    By Katherine Heiny  April 14, 2021
    Reading Women

    Quan Barry on the Possibilities of Magical Realism

    By Reading Women  April 14, 2021
    Thresholds

    Jordan Kisner on Obsession Versus Possession in Thin Places

    By Thresholds   April 14, 2021
    Otherppl

    Shannon McLeod on Letting Go of Saving the Cat

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 14, 2021
    Dogs

    Leaning into Mystery: On the Inner Life of an Aging
    Shelter Dog

    By JoAnne Tompkins  April 13, 2021
    Writing Advice

    15 Writing (and Life) Lessons from Finishing Two Novels That Didn’t Sell

    By Maria Kuznetsova  April 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 4 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 13, 2021
    On Writing

    Jamie Figueroa on Writing in the Shadow of a Dominant Culture

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 13, 2021
    Lit Century

    On Domestic Labor and Freedom in Excellent Women

    By Lit Century   April 13, 2021
    The Hub

    17 new books to find at your local library.

    By Katie Yee  April 13, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Five Ways to Read Henry James

    By History of Literature  April 12, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Bio-Waste: How Important Are Author Bios Anyway?

    By Jason Guriel  April 12, 2021
    First Draft

    Lidia Yuknavitch Wants You to Write a Triptych

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 12, 2021
    African American Literature

    How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

    By Shanna Greene Benjamin  April 12, 2021
    Literary Icons

    On Great Literary Loves and the Joyous, Complicated Brilliance of Walt Whitman

    By Mark Edmundson  April 9, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Searching for Three Generations of Secrets at a French Chateau

    By Stephanie Dray  April 9, 2021
    Close Reading

    The Donald Barthelme Story Nobody Talks About But Everyone Should Read

    By Emily Temple  April 9, 2021
    News and Culture

    On Dealing with Literary Rejection: The Importance of Letting Go and Moving On

    By Jessica Bacal  April 9, 2021
    Food

    A Secret, Symbolic History of Pomegranates

    By Kate Lebo  April 9, 2021
    Jane Austen

    On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn’t Write

    By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales  April 8, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the US

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 8, 2021
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