“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“I’ve been praised for a lighting designer’s contribution, and condemned for a writer’s lack of skill.”

By Jack O'Brien | November 16, 2022

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”

By Brigitta Olubas | November 15, 2022

Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts

Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts

The Author of Dickens and Prince Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | November 15, 2022

12 new books to look forward to this week.

12 new books to look forward to this week.

By Katie Yee | November 15, 2022

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

On the Glorious Queerness of Metrical Narrative

Cat Fitzpatrick’s Celebration of “Absurd Embellishments”

By Cat Fitzpatrick | November 15, 2022

Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg

Sofia Coppola in Praise of Edith Wharton’s Beloved Antiheroine, Undine Spragg

“We watch her like a car crash while at the same time we root for her.”

By Sofia Coppola | November 15, 2022

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Elisa Gabbert on the Performance of Self in Poetry (Versus Prose)

By I'm a Writer But | November 15, 2022

Meg Howrey on Speaking for Her Novel’s Protagonist

By Meg Howrey | November 15, 2022

Stephanie Land on Putting the Pieces of Your Life Together and Finding Your Way

By Twitterverse | November 15, 2022

Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin on the Heart of Beat Literature

Rich Ferguson, Mary Kerr, and S.A. Griffin on the Heart of Beat Literature

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | November 15, 2022

Kevin Wilson on the Ease of Writing in the 90s and His New Novel, <em>Now is Not the Time to Panic<em>

Kevin Wilson on the Ease of Writing in the 90s and His New Novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | November 15, 2022

Cary Grant as <em>The Acrobat</em>: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Cary Grant as The Acrobat: A Novel About the Hollywood Comic Star Whose Best Joke Was That He Didn’t Really Exist

Edward J. Delaney in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 14, 2022

Writers Wrestle with Twitter: Do I Stay or Go (and Where?)

Writers Wrestle with Twitter: Do I Stay or Go (and Where?)

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Literary Community’s Twitter Deathwatch

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | November 14, 2022

Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

Finding the Mother Tree: An Interview with Suzanne Simard

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | November 14, 2022

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Remembering Kenward Elmslie and Lucia Berlin through Their Postcards to Each Other

Chip Livingston on a Unique Correspondence

By Chip Livingston | November 14, 2022

Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

Oh, the Ironies: How Irony Got Its (Second) Meaning

Ben Yagoda Considers Connop Thirlwell's Invention of Practical Irony

By Ben Yagoda | November 14, 2022

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