• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    Authors Guild releases grim 50-page report on “The Profession of the Author in the 21st Century”

    By Jonny Diamond  February 19, 2020
    The Hub

    In which a very blasé Carson McCullers gets interviewed on a ship.

    By Emily Temple  February 19, 2020
    The Hub

    I regret to inform you that Miss Havisham, Dickens’ embittered crone, is actually only . . . 40.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  February 19, 2020
    Debut Novels

    Brandon Taylor, Reluctant Novelist

    By Brandon Taylor  February 18, 2020
    La Belle Epoque

    The Romanticized Belle Epoque in Paris Was an Age of Political Crisis

    By Julian Barnes  February 18, 2020
    Valentine's Day

    You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine’s Day

    By Emily Temple  February 14, 2020
    Rereadings

    In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

    By Michelle Chihara  February 14, 2020
    Interview

    Few Were As Devoted to Poetry and Friendship as Harry Mathews

    By Literary Hub  February 13, 2020
    Fascism

    The Graveyard Talks Back:
    Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

    By Arundhati Roy  February 12, 2020
    End Times

    We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill’s World

    By Kristin Iversen  February 11, 2020
    Criticism

    Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

    By Vivian Gornick  February 11, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  February 11, 2020
    Editors

    What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

    By Adrienne Miller  February 11, 2020
    Revolutions

    A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

    By Dina Nayeri  February 11, 2020
    Rereadings

    The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

    By Zan Romanoff  February 10, 2020
    Feminism

    Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

    By John Freeman  February 10, 2020
    Desire

    The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

    By Jenn Shapland  February 10, 2020
    Religion

    Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

    By Alena Dillon  February 10, 2020
    Criticism

    Brilliance and Blind Spots:
    Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

    By Gabrielle Bellot  February 7, 2020
    Cities

    How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

    By Sam Wasson  February 7, 2020
    Queer Lit

    Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

    By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
    5 Questions

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

    By Literary Hub  February 6, 2020
    Criticism

    When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

    By Sarah Kozloff  February 6, 2020
    Baseball

    Emily Nemens on Getting to the Heart of Recession-Era America in a Baseball Novel

    By Christian Kiefer  February 5, 2020
    Autofiction

    The Risk, and Reward, of Turning from Memoir to Fiction

    By Amy Jo Burns  February 5, 2020
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