• Craft and Criticism

    On Craft

    My Writing Schedule is for Satisfaction, Not Fun

    By Elizabeth George  April 10, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alternate Histories and Silenced Women: Sue Monk Kidd on Her New Novel The Book of Longings

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 9, 2020
    Grammar

    The West in Pieces: On the Reimagined Grammar(s) of C. Pam Zhang

    By Christian Kiefer  April 9, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    Emily Gould on How (and Why) to Keep Writing When Writing Feels Pointless

    By Emily Gould  April 9, 2020
    Writing About Family

    Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

    By Ellen Meeropol  April 9, 2020
    Nature

    The Listening World: Neurodivergent Voices for a More-Than-Human World

    By Chris Martin  April 8, 2020
    Mental health

    How To Write a Novel When Everyone You Love Might Be Losing It

    By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan  April 8, 2020
    Literary History

    In a Quiet London Enclave, Five Iconic Women Writers Forged a Home

    By Francesca Wade  April 8, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What Will Happen to the Novel
    After This?

    By Emily Temple  April 7, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    A Feminist Critique of Murakami Novels, With Murakami Himself

    By Literary Hub  April 7, 2020
    Politics

    The Case for Teaching Depressing Books

    By Sahar Mustafah  April 7, 2020
    Craft

    How Having a Writing Community Stimulates Creativity

    By Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon  April 7, 2020
    Literary Criticism

    Finding Permission to Fail in
    A Confederacy of Dunces

    By Mary Pauline Lowry  April 7, 2020
    Fairy Tales

    What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We’re Different)

    By Marie Mutsuki Mockett  April 7, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

    By Nathaniel Popkin  April 6, 2020
    Science fiction

    My Dystopian Fiction Longs for a Better World

    By Veronica Roth  April 6, 2020
    New Books Network

    Ken Liu on Identity and the Limits of Human Empathy

    By New Books Network  April 5, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How to Organize Your
    Home Office

    By Ronda Kaysen and Michelle Higgins  April 3, 2020
    On Craft

    This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

    By Patrick Madden  April 1, 2020
    Exile

    Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

    By Breyten Breytenbach  April 1, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    Yoko Tawada: ‘Language is a Living Thing’

    By Literary Hub  April 1, 2020
    5 Questions

    Samantha Irby Absolutely Does Not Want Michelle Obama to Read Her Book

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2020
    The Craft of Writing

    C Pam Zhang on Writing in a Time of Grief

    By C Pam Zhang  March 31, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Trying to Teach High School During a Global Pandemic

    By Nick Ripatrazone  March 31, 2020
    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories in This Strange Long Month

    By Literary Hub  March 31, 2020
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