• Craft and Criticism

    First Draft

    Ursula Hegi on the Seam Between Bliss and Sorrow

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 17, 2020
    Essays

    Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari  August 14, 2020
    Shakespeare

    Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

    By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti  August 14, 2020
    Gay Icons

    John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

    By Mark Dery  August 14, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Will Harris on the Idea of Poetry as Interconnectedness

    By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2020
    California

    How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

    By Peter Lunenfeld  August 13, 2020
    Literary Biographies

    Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

    By Ann Jefferson  August 13, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jewel on Battling Anxiety, Living with Dyslexia and Finding Solace in Philosophy

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
    Family

    Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

    By Rebecca Rukeyser  August 12, 2020
    News and Culture

    On Writing a Character Who Confronts Middle Age and the Necessity of Change

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

    By Cree LeFavour  August 12, 2020
    The Internet

    The Internet Has Split Our Sense of Self. Can the Page Reproduce That?

    By Rebecca Watson  August 12, 2020
    True and Correct Rankings

    40 Hamlets, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  August 11, 2020
    Girlhood

    The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

    By Lisa Selin Davis  August 11, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Charlotte Wood on the Subconscious Act of Writing

    By Charlotte Wood  August 11, 2020
    Criticism

    When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

    By Melanie Cheng  August 11, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  August 11, 2020
    In Conversation

    Connected at the Roots:
    A Conversation with Margot Livesey

    By Steven Wingate  August 10, 2020
    Graphic Novel

    A Serial Online Novel Journeys Through a Queer, Eerie NYC During Shut Down

    By Literary Hub  August 10, 2020
    On Craft

    The Quest for Kindness is One of Fiction’s Great Challenges

    By Rónán Hession  August 7, 2020
    Memoir

    My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

    By Gretchen Cherington  August 7, 2020
    Literary History

    Reading the First Drafts of
    Anna Karenina

    By Bob Blaisdell  August 6, 2020
    Chronic Illness

    On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness… and Chronic Racism

    By Maggie Levantovskaya  August 6, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Jazz Pianist Marcus Roberts Get the Blues and Talks Musical Influences

    By Literary Hub  August 5, 2020
    Music

    Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

    By Odie Lindsey  August 5, 2020
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