• Craft and Criticism

    Dictators

    From Napoleon to Trump, on the
    Tyrant As Troll

    By Liesl Schillinger  October 15, 2020
    Jane Austen

    Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

    By Emily Temple  October 15, 2020
    Just the Right Book

    NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering
    You On

    By Just the Right Book   October 15, 2020
    Otherppl

    How Tori Amos Helped Laura Bogart Channel Vulnerability on the Page

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 15, 2020
    Literary Readings

    In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

    By S. Kirk Walsh  October 14, 2020
    Illness

    How Audre Lorde’s Experience of Breast Cancer Fortified Her Revolutionary Politics

    By Tracy K. Smith  October 14, 2020
    Letters

    A Young John Berryman Writes R.P. Blackmur About His Favorite Poets

    By John Berryman  October 14, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Emily X.R. Pan on How Writing a Short Story Can Lead to a Better Novel

    By Emily X.R. Pan  October 14, 2020
    WMFA

    Susan Choi: ‘Have a Very Large Storage System for All That Garbage’

    By WMFA   October 14, 2020
    Reading Women

    Cinelle Barnes on Compiling an Anthology of the South

    By Reading Women  October 14, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of Leave the World Behind

    By So Many Damn Books  October 14, 2020
    The Literary Salon

    Burlesque Star Immodesty Blaize on Starting Her Career in Soho

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  October 14, 2020
    In Conversation

    Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

    By Lynn Steger Strong  October 13, 2020
    Essays

    Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

    By Claire Messud  October 13, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  October 13, 2020
    On Craft

    Wicked Wouldn’t Have Been What It Is If I Hadn’t Written the Novel by Hand

    By Gregory Maguire  October 13, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    By Lit Century   October 13, 2020
    What to Read

    10 Books You Should Read
    in October

    By Literary Hub  October 13, 2020
    First Draft

    Debra Spark on Doing the Research… Like Asking to See Strangers’ Apartments

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 13, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On Edgar Allan Poe’s Creepy Doppelgänger Story, “William Wilson”

    By History of Literature  October 12, 2020
    Creativity

    The National Frontman Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy on Creativity and Collaboration

    By Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy  October 9, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Joyce Carol Oates on the Book (and the Person) That Made Her a Writer

    By How to Proceed   October 9, 2020
    In Conversation

    Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

    By Sarah Booker  October 9, 2020
    September Books

    5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

    By Bethanne Patrick  October 9, 2020
    On Writing

    Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

    By Nick Kary  October 9, 2020
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