• Craft and Criticism

    Immigration

    Relearning Old Lessons: What a Forgotten Novel Can Teach Us About Immigration in 2020

    By Anne Boyd Rioux  January 13, 2020
    Craft

    The Impossible Exercise of Interviewing Leonora Carrington

    By Claudia Dey  January 13, 2020
    Family History

    On the Line Between Truth and Fiction When Writing About Your Family

    By Lee Matalone  January 13, 2020
    But That's Another Story

    Gretchen Rubin on Virginia Woolf and the Cycles of Being a Writer

    By But That's Another Story  January 13, 2020
    Workshop

    Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

    By Nina Schuyler  January 10, 2020
    Literary Criticism

    The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Last
    Novel, Sanditon

    By Janet Todd  January 10, 2020
    Parenting

    How to Read After
    Becoming a Parent

    By Liz Moore  January 10, 2020
    The Internet

    Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

    By Courtney Maum  January 9, 2020
    Memoir

    What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

    By Sonya Bilocerkowycz  January 9, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

    By Benjamin Schaefer  January 8, 2020
    Language

    Why We Love
    Untranslatable Words

    By David Shariatmadari  January 8, 2020
    On Writing Better

    Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
    Your Reader

    By Chuck Palahniuk  January 8, 2020
    Games

    What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

    By Yvette Benavides  January 8, 2020
    Reading Women

    Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

    By Reading Women  January 8, 2020
    Writers in Conversation

    Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

    By Kristin Iversen  January 7, 2020
    Russian Literature

    On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

    By Daniyal Mueenuddin  January 7, 2020
    Interview

    Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

    By Literary Hub  January 7, 2020
    NewberyTart

    On the Darker Standalone Novels from the Baby-Sitters Club Author

    By NewberyTart   January 7, 2020
    African Literature

    Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

    By Yogita Goyal  January 6, 2020
    Horror

    At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

    By Tobias Carroll  January 6, 2020
    MFA Life

    Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

    By Sean Adams  January 6, 2020
    Great Authors

    Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry’s The Street

    By Tayari Jones  January 6, 2020
    Feminist Classics

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

    By Literary Hub  January 6, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

    By Literary Hub  December 30, 2019
    What to Read

    Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

    By Literary Hub  December 20, 2019
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