• Craft and Criticism

    Publishing

    Why I Paid Tenfold to Buy Back the Rights for Two of My Books

    By Kiese Laymon  November 10, 2020
    Lit Century

    On the Dark American Nostalgia of Cheaper By the Dozen

    By Lit Century   November 10, 2020
    5 Questions

    In Which Jonathan Lethem Possibly Overthinks Our Interview Questions

    By Literary Hub  November 10, 2020
    Poets in Conversation

    On Truth, Queerness, and Social Media: A Conversation with Jericho Brown

    By Jona Colson  November 10, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  November 10, 2020
    Folklore

    On the Lies We Tell in Fiction

    By Ruth Gilligan  November 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Why are we so hungry for books about cannibals?

    By Katie Yee  November 9, 2020
    Profiles

    Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

    By Brian Gresko  November 9, 2020
    Short Stories

    Shirley Hazzard’s Heroines and the World That
    Misunderstood Them

    By Zoë Heller  November 9, 2020
    First Draft

    Bryan Washington on Giving His Characters the Capacity for Love, Even When They Don’t Have the Language for It

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 9, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Poet Vijay Seshadri on Loss and Writing as Therapy

    By Peter Mishler  November 9, 2020
    On Poetry

    How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

    By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
    The History of Literature

    The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

    By History of Literature  November 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    No One Gets Sylvia Plath

    By Emily Van Duyne  November 6, 2020
    Book Able

    Karen Russell on Fatal Insomnia and the Demons of Our Dreams

    By Bookable   November 6, 2020
    Children's Lit

    Leanne Hall Examines Her Problematic Childhood Fave

    By Leanne Hall  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    Sandra Cisneros on the Me Too Movement, Narrative Voice, and The House on Mango Street

    By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera  November 6, 2020
    Poetry

    Elisa Wouk Almino on Beloved Brazilian Poet
    Ana Cristina Cesar

    By Elisa Wouk Almino  November 6, 2020
    Craft

    In Praise of Bob Dylan’s Narrative Strategies…
    and His Verbs

    By Tony Conniff  November 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    P. Djèlí Clark Imagines the Monstrous Creation of the Second Ku Klux Klan

    By New Books Network  November 6, 2020
    Lit Crit

    A Brief History of Citational Fiction and the Literary Supercut

    By Tom Comitta  November 5, 2020
    On Memoir

    The First Mughal Emperor’s Towering Account of Exile, Bloody Conquest, and the Natural World

    By William Dalrymple  November 5, 2020
    Teaching High School

    The High School Teacher Who Changed Kaveh Akbar’s Life

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 5, 2020
    Titles

    What We Talk About When We Talk About This Title Format

    By Fiona Bell  November 4, 2020
    On Craft

    Colm Tóibín: How Rules of Craft Inhibit Creativity

    By Literary Hub  November 4, 2020
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