• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Lit Century

    Can We Stop Underrating
    Shirley Jackson Now?

    By Lit Century   January 5, 2021
    Literary Disco

    Lit Disco’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

    By Literary Disco  January 5, 2021
    On Craft

    How to Render Epiphanies in Nonfiction Without Getting Didactic

    By Randon Billings Noble  January 4, 2021
    Sexual Politics

    Stories About Girls, Sex, and Power Are Vital—If We’re Brave Enough to Look

    By Jerrine Tan  January 4, 2021
    First Draft

    Emma Glass on the Ghost Story (and Nursing Career) That Inspired Her Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2021
    The History of Literature

    Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

    By History of Literature  January 4, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Daniel Halpern on 50 Years of Ecco Press

    By The Literary Life  January 4, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Claire Messud and Brendan O’Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of ‘Fake News’

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 31, 2020
    Best of the Year

    Booksellers Recommend: The Best Under-the-Radar Books of 2020

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘If Words Are Not Enough Anymore, the Violence Enters’

    By How to Proceed   December 30, 2020
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    The Best Books of 2020 You Might Have Missed

    By Bethanne Patrick  December 29, 2020
    Lit Century

    Where Blues for Mister Charlie Fits into James Baldwin’s Oeuvre

    By Lit Century   December 29, 2020
    Refugees

    The Literary Risk-Takers: On New Migrant and Refugee Fiction

    By John Domini  December 29, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Maggie Smith on Finding Hope on Twitter

    By The Maris Review  December 28, 2020
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