• Craft and Criticism

    Workshop

    We Owe More to Our Young Writers: On the Relevance of the Workshop

    By Ru Freeman  April 16, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden on Craft, Candles, and Character

    By Literary Hub  April 16, 2020
    Translation

    Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

    By Richard Pevear  April 14, 2020
    On Poetry

    The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman’s Poetry

    By Mark Doty  April 14, 2020
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  April 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

    By Siri Hustvedt  April 13, 2020
    Criticism

    Like Talking With a Friend: Intimacy in Lucia Berlin’s Peripatetic Narratives

    By Alexandra Chang  April 13, 2020
    Nobel Laureates

    J.M.G. Le Clézio Talks the Common Good (and Other People’s Books)

    By Aysegul Sert  April 13, 2020
    Capitalism

    Jenny Odell and Wendy Liu on Liberating Ourselves From Usefulness

    By Jenny Odell  April 13, 2020
    On Poetry

    Kay Ryan on the Preposterous Beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    By Kay Ryan  April 13, 2020
    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
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