• Craft and Criticism

    The Writing Life

    Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

    By Benjamin Schaefer  January 8, 2020
    Language

    Why We Love
    Untranslatable Words

    By David Shariatmadari  January 8, 2020
    On Writing Better

    Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
    Your Reader

    By Chuck Palahniuk  January 8, 2020
    Games

    What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

    By Yvette Benavides  January 8, 2020
    Reading Women

    Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

    By Reading Women  January 8, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

    By Kristin Iversen  January 7, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

    By Daniyal Mueenuddin  January 7, 2020
    Interview

    Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

    By Literary Hub  January 7, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Darker Standalone Novels from the Baby-Sitters Club Author

    By NewberyTart   January 7, 2020
    African Literature

    Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

    By Yogita Goyal  January 6, 2020
    Horror

    At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

    By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
    MFA Life

    Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

    By Sean Adams  January 6, 2020
    Great Authors

    Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry’s The Street

    By Tayari Jones  January 6, 2020
    Feminist Classics

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2019
    Brazil

    How to Break in to Publishing If You’re a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

    By Padma Viswanathan and Graciliano Ramos  December 20, 2019
    Comics

    Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

    By Lynda Barry  December 19, 2019
    Family

    When Your Family Figures Out You’re a Writer… and Loves You For It

    By Melissa M. Woods  December 19, 2019
    Audiobooks

    Tim O’Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

    By Randy O'Brien  December 19, 2019
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Visiting Jeff VanderMeer’s Weird, Wondrous Worlds

    By Erin Berger  December 18, 2019
    The Writing Life

    When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

    By Laleh Khadivi  December 18, 2019
    Sex

    One Man’s Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

    By Susan G. Davis  December 18, 2019
    Criticism

    The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever’s Darkest Work

    By Rick Moody  December 18, 2019
    Character Development

    How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

    By Jim Davies  December 18, 2019
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