• Craft and Criticism

    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Politics

    Koa Beck on What ‘Feminist’ Settings Are Too Often Missing

    By Corinne Segal  January 12, 2021
    On Translation

    How to Translate a Journey Without a Destination

    By Will Schutt  January 12, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    George Saunders: ‘Writing Books Make Me Nervous’

    By So Many Damn Books  January 12, 2021
    Film History

    Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Genius
    of Ingmar Bergman

    By Karl Ove Knausgaard  January 11, 2021
    Math

    How to Read Ulysses
    By the Numbers

    By Eric Bulson  January 11, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 11, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Imagining Gatsby
    Before Gatsby

    By Michael Farris Smith  January 11, 2021
    The History of Literature

    How Nathaniel Hawthorne Distinguished Between ‘Novels’ and ‘Romances’

    By History of Literature  January 11, 2021
    First Draft

    Jamie Harrison on Leaving Easter Eggs for Readers

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 11, 2021
    Trauma

    The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

    By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
    Politics

    Francisco Goldman on Guatemalan Justice, Identity, and The Art of Political Murder

    By Idra Novey  January 8, 2021
    Teaching

    How Teachers Can Foster a Space of Curiosity

    By Nick Ripatrazone  January 8, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Kate Zambreno on the Beauty of the Mundane

    By The Maris Review  January 8, 2021
    competitions

    Can we please have a version of this competitive Indian “writers reality show” in America?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2021
    The Writing Life

    Jamie Harrison on Finding Her Way to the Writer’s Life in the American West

    By Thomas McGuane  January 7, 2021
    Thresholds

    Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

    By Thresholds   January 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s 33 writers on why they write.

    By Walker Caplan  January 6, 2021
    The Hub

    ‘TS Eliot is the worst living poet.’ Literary burn book featuring Virginia Woolf up for sale.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 6, 2021
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2021
    Drafts

    What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

    By Danielle McLaughlin  January 6, 2021
    Otherppl

    George Saunders on How You Know When the Talking Spider Belongs in the Story

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 6, 2021
    Anti-racism

    How to Build an Antiracist Workshop

    By Felicia Rose Chavez  January 6, 2021
    Literary History

    On Writing Nora Joyce into Biographical Fiction

    By Nuala O'Connor  January 5, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

    By Peter Ho Davies  January 5, 2021
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