• Craft and Criticism

    Memoir

    Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

    By Yiyun Li  January 15, 2021
    Reading Lists

    How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

    By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
    Climate Change

    Writing the Human Element Into Climate Change Via Those Most At Risk

    By Claire Holroyde  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel… in Which Things Actually Get Better

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

    By History of Literature  January 15, 2021
    New Books Network

    Revisiting the Brontës… Through Branwell’s Reputed Affair

    By New Books Network  January 15, 2021
    Reading

    Will Self: How Should We Read?

    By Will Self  January 14, 2021
    Writing Advice

    In Favor of Speed:
    Write Fast, Fix Later

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 14, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Caitlin Horrocks on Life in Michigan, the Love of Sleep, and Novels vs. Short Stories

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 14, 2021
    The Maris Review

    George Saunders Wants You to Accept Your Flaws (Writing and Otherwise)

    By The Maris Review  January 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Danielle Evans on How to Play With Time and Chronology in a Short Story

    By Danielle Evans  January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
    Creativity

    Looking to Nurture Your Artistic Self? Go On an Artist Date

    By Julia Cameron  January 14, 2021
    Memoir

    Gabriel Byrne Talks Memory, Loneliness and More With Karl Geary

    By Karl Geary  January 13, 2021
    Reading Lists

    6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

    By Melissa Albert  January 13, 2021
    World War II

    Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
    World War II

    By Richard Greene  January 13, 2021
    Thresholds

    Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

    By Thresholds   January 13, 2021
    First Draft

    Mateo Askaripour on Maintaining Plausibility in an Absurd World

    By WMFA   January 13, 2021
    Literary Disco

    George Saunders on How to Avoid Becoming a Hack

    By Literary Disco  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    NewberyTart

    What Makes a Teachable YA Book? When It Shows Teens to Think for Themselves

    By NewberyTart   January 13, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    George Saunders on the Songs (and Stories) He Can’t Live Without

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2021
    The Writer's Life

    Ten Years, Seven Houses: The Wandering Life of the Itinerant Writer

    By Sarah Moss  January 12, 2021
    Lit Century

    On the Reality Behind Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Stories

    By Lit Century   January 12, 2021
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