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Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

A Field Guide to the Artifacts from "A Field Guide to Getting Lost"

By Rebecca Solnit | May 29, 2025

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

Rosie Stockton Explores the Tension Between Our Obsession With Freedom and the Constraints of Car-Centric Capitalism

By Rosie Stockton | May 29, 2025

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien's Grandson

Simon Tolkien on the Double-Edged Sword of a Mighty Literary Inheritance

By Simon Tolkien | May 29, 2025

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 29, 2025

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More

The Likability Trap: Why We Need More "Nasty" Female Protagonists

Laura Leffler Considers the Faulty Logic Behind Gendered Expectations of Goodness in Fiction

By Laura Leffler | May 29, 2025

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

Darrow Farr on Patty Hearst, Exploitation, and Writing Other People's Traumas

By Darrow Farr | May 29, 2025

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By Book Marks | May 29, 2025

Meet the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize finalists.

By Literary Hub | May 28, 2025

Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

By Rochelle Dowden-Lord | May 28, 2025

How Curtis Sittenfeld's

How Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

Jessica Stanley on Political Fiction, Conservative Characters, and Curiosity

By Jessica Stanley | May 28, 2025

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life's Many Storms

"All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity."

By Catherine Bush | May 28, 2025

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

One great short story to read today: Breece D’J Pancake’s “Time and Again”

By Jonny Diamond | May 27, 2025

20 Years of <em>Getting Lost</em>: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

“All of us are continually gathering ideas, stories, glimpses, encounters that we can sift through to find constellations of meaning."

By Rebecca Solnit | May 27, 2025

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

The Author of "Disappoint Me" Reflects on Readers Seeing Her and Themselves in Fiction's Mirror

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

Honor Jones on Exploring the Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

Honor Jones on Exploring the Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Sleep"

By Jane Ciabattari | May 27, 2025

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

The Author of "Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April" in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | May 27, 2025

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