• Craft and Criticism

    The Literary Life

    Gabriel Byrne on Navigating Past and Present, Fact and Imagination

    By The Literary Life  February 12, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

    By Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon  February 11, 2021
    Chinese Literature

    On the Connection Between Chinese Folktales and American Comic Book Heroes

    By Gene Luen Yang  February 11, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Brandon Hobson on Getting to the Truth Through Surreality

    By The Maris Review  February 11, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    ‘A Certain Kind of Hunger’: Chang-rae Lee on Writing Connection While We’re Worlds Apart

    By Fiction Non Fiction  February 11, 2021
    On Writing

    From Stage to Screen to Page… A Few Notes on Writing Across Media

    By Jen Silverman  February 11, 2021
    Well-Versed

    Thomas Grattan on Writing a Joyful Queer Protagonist

    By Well-Versed   February 11, 2021
    Reading Women

    Emma Copley Eisenberg on the Whiteness and Straightness Embedded in True Crime

    By Reading Women  February 10, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Lesley Storm Reads from Her Poetry Collection, It’s About Time

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  February 10, 2021
    Lit Century

    Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

    By Lit Century   February 9, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
    Teenage Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2021
    Character Development

    How to Keep Track of Your Characters With Index Cards, String, and a Lot of Clothes Pins

    By Bee Sacks  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Joyce Carol Oates Thinks You Should Write Your Heart Out

    By Literary Hub  February 9, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  February 9, 2021
    Persian Literature

    A Brief History of Metaphor in
    Persian Poetry

    By Dick Davis  February 9, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Jenny Offill: Everyone’s Always Hoping for Some Kind of Plot

    By So Many Damn Books  February 9, 2021
    Interview

    David Duchovny: I Tackle Writer’s Block From Behind

    By Literary Hub  February 8, 2021
    Social Media

    When Talking About Poetry Online
    Goes Very Wrong

    By Wayne Miller  February 8, 2021
    Book Recommendations

    Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

    By Tyler Wetherall  February 8, 2021
    On Craft

    The Greatest Literary Alliance of All Time: You, the Author, and the Character

    By Lisa Zeidner  February 8, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

    By History of Literature  February 8, 2021
    On Translation

    How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

    By Lara Vergnaud  February 8, 2021
    Food History

    On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

    By Urvi Kumbhat  February 8, 2021
    First Draft

    Ben Okri on the Strange Magic of Our Preoccupations

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 8, 2021
    Women Writers

    On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

    By Rosalind Miles  February 5, 2021
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