• Craft and Criticism

    Behind the Mic

    Golden Voice Narrator Michael Crouch on the Task of Capturing a Character’s Voice

    By Behind the Mic   June 11, 2021
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 10, 2021
    Film

    How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

    By Adam Scovell  June 10, 2021
    Queer Identity

    How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

    By Jamika Ajalon  June 10, 2021
    Personal Space

    Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 10, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Reading Books About… People Reading Books?

    By Alice Jolly  June 10, 2021
    Aging

    The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

    By E.J. Levy  June 10, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants… in a Roundabout Way

    By The Maris Review  June 10, 2021
    Book Dreams

    When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

    By Book Dreams  June 10, 2021
    Ecology

    On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

    By Gillian Osborne  June 9, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

    By The Virtual Book Channel  June 9, 2021
    Craft

    On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

    By Ron Hogan  June 9, 2021
    Insomnia

    Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

    By Aminatta Forna  June 9, 2021
    Thresholds

    Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

    By Thresholds   June 9, 2021
    Reading Women

    Jenny Lawson on (Dark) Humor as a Conduit to Compassion

    By Reading Women  June 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    On Leaving and Returning:
    A Reading List About Home

    By Andy Abramowitz  June 9, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Reading Shades of Gray in Avi’s Nothing But the Truth

    By NewberyTart   June 9, 2021
    Book Origins

    More Craft Than Art: Approaching a Novel As a Carpenter Would

    By Brian Hall  June 9, 2021
    Reading Lists

    “My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

    By John Paul Brammer  June 8, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  June 8, 2021
    Archives

    Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

    By Samantha Rose Hill  June 8, 2021
    American History

    The Many Fictional Afterlives of Ethel Rosenberg

    By Anne Sebba  June 8, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Ethel Rohan on the Replenishing Beauty of Ireland and Eschewing Likable Characters

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 8, 2021
    Mythology

    The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

    By Kathryn Lofton  June 8, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 hot new books coming out this week.

    By Katie Yee  June 8, 2021
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