• Craft and Criticism

    In Conversation

    Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

    By Lynn Steger Strong  October 13, 2020
    Essays

    Claire Messud in Praise of the Essays That Dwell in Uncertainty

    By Claire Messud  October 13, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  October 13, 2020
    On Craft

    Wicked Wouldn’t Have Been What It Is If I Hadn’t Written the Novel by Hand

    By Gregory Maguire  October 13, 2020
    Lit Century

    On Eugenics and Queerness in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    By Lit Century   October 13, 2020
    What to Read

    10 Books You Should Read
    in October

    By Literary Hub  October 13, 2020
    First Draft

    Debra Spark on Doing the Research… Like Asking to See Strangers’ Apartments

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 13, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On Edgar Allan Poe’s Creepy Doppelgänger Story, “William Wilson”

    By History of Literature  October 12, 2020
    Creativity

    The National Frontman Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy on Creativity and Collaboration

    By Matt Berninger and Brandon Stosuy  October 9, 2020
    How to Proceed

    Joyce Carol Oates on the Book (and the Person) That Made Her a Writer

    By How to Proceed   October 9, 2020
    In Conversation

    Writer Cristina Rivera Garza in Conversation with Translator Sarah Booker

    By Sarah Booker  October 9, 2020
    September Books

    5 Great Books You May Have Missed in September

    By Bethanne Patrick  October 9, 2020
    On Writing

    Of the Ways in Which Writing is a Material Labor

    By Nick Kary  October 9, 2020
    New Books Network

    Jasper Fforde on Reckoning with Complicity Through Science Fiction

    By New Books Network  October 9, 2020
    The Antibody Reading Series

    Antibody: Starring Makenna Goodman, Hari Kunzru, and Sigrid Nunez

    By The Antibody Reading Series  October 8, 2020
    The Hub

    “I feel like a tracker in the forest following a scent.” Louise Glück on how she writes.

    By Corinne Segal  October 8, 2020
    Beyond the Page

    Isabel Allende is Writing a Novel Bookended by Pandemics

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  October 8, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Writing a More Authentic Mexico

    By The Maris Review  October 8, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Marilyn Singer: How to Keep Track When You’ve Published 100+ Children’s Books

    By NewberyTart   October 8, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Theatre Director Barry Edelstein on Making Art with Limitations

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 8, 2020
    Aliens?

    Sayaka Murata on Making Friends with Imaginary Aliens

    By Sayaka Murata  October 7, 2020
    Teaching High School

    How Teachers Build Connections Beyond the Classroom

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 7, 2020
    Identities

    Heading North to Become
    a Poet

    By Michael Torres  October 7, 2020
    Otherppl

    Why You Won’t Catch Dean Koontz Being Cynical

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 7, 2020
    The Literary Salon

    Chris Adrian on Atheist Club at Divinity School

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  October 7, 2020
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