• Craft and Criticism

    Notes on Twitter

    What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

    By Rebecca Brill  May 23, 2019
    Bad Writing Advice

    20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  May 23, 2019
    Profiles

    On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

    By Saskia Vogel  May 23, 2019
    Speculative fiction

    How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

    By Veronica Esposito  May 22, 2019
    Protect Your Darlings

    Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

    By Brandon Taylor  May 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

    By Sara Collins  May 22, 2019
    Writing Advice

    “Make Them Care About What You Think” and Other Writing Advice from Nora Ephron

    By Emily Temple  May 21, 2019
    Influences

    The Biggest Influence on My Novel Is… McDonald’s?

    By Ryan Chapman  May 21, 2019
    Criticism

    13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
    How to Avoid Them

    By Jay A. Fernandez  May 21, 2019
    On Race

    Ebony Thomas on Seeking the Fantastic When the World Tells You Not To

    By Ebony Elizabeth Thomas  May 21, 2019
    Writers at Home

    T.C. Boyle is Most Certainly Living His Best Life

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  May 21, 2019
    What Should A Narrative Be?

    On Obliterating How Narrative Art Should Function

    By Will Vanderhyden  May 21, 2019
    Failed Books

    Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin’s Unpublished
    Magnum Opus

    By Jeremy Klemin   May 20, 2019
    Friendship

    Walking Through the Woods of Midtown with Jessica Francis Kane

    By Brian Gresko  May 20, 2019
    The Hub

    Quiz: Is this my first book tour or my own funeral?

    By Kimberly Harrington  May 17, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

    By Oscar Villalon  May 17, 2019
    Literary History

    Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

    By Brian Birnbaum  May 16, 2019
    Witches

    On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

    By Alexis Gunderson  May 16, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

    By Caroline Fraser  May 16, 2019
    On Grief

    Sakia Vogel on Grief, Mary Gaitskill, and the City of Angels

    By Philip Teir  May 16, 2019
    Family History

    Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History

    By Michele Filgate  May 16, 2019
    Domestic Violence

    Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

    By Lacy M. Johnson  May 15, 2019
    Writing Advice

    Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 15, 2019
    Kafkaesque

    On Translating Mario Levrero,
    The Kafka of Uruguay

    By Annie McDermott  May 15, 2019
    Poets

    Bruce Smith on Poetry in Prison and the Poetic Task of Demystification

    By Peter Mishler  May 15, 2019
    Page 355 of 464

    • Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member: Because Books Matter

    For the past decade, Literary Hub has brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for a donation, you’ll get an ad-free reading experience, exclusive editors’ picks, book giveaways, and our coveted Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bag. Most importantly, you’ll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving on the internet.

    Become a member for as low as $5/month

    Dismiss without supporting Lit Hub
    x