• Craft and Criticism

    What to Read

    Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

    By Literary Hub  September 27, 2019
    African Literature

    In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

    By Marcia Lynx Qualey  September 27, 2019
    News and Culture

    Here’s What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub’s Climate Change Reading List

    By Mark Gozonsky  September 26, 2019
    Teaching

    The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

    By Noah Cho  September 26, 2019
    Young Adult

    How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

    By Dana Schwartz  September 25, 2019
    Animals

    Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous With
    Our Grief?

    By Rebecca Renner  September 25, 2019
    Children's Lit

    Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids’ Book

    By Rivka Galchen  September 25, 2019
    Mental health

    Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

    By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen  September 25, 2019
    Poetry

    On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

    By Jake Skeets  September 24, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

    By Kate Angus  September 24, 2019
    New in Fiction

    Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

    By Ann Patchett  September 23, 2019
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series:
    on the Writer’s Quest for Authenticity

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Lisa Cortes On Finding the Right Book at the Right Time

    By But That's Another Story  September 23, 2019
    Folktales

    Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

    By Neil Gaiman  September 20, 2019
    Covering Climate Now

    For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

    By Rosa Boshier  September 20, 2019
    Literary Magazines

    Jim Shepard on Why We Still Need Literary Journals

    By Jim Shepard  September 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Open to Interpretation: The Brief Relationship of Susan Sontag and Jasper Johns

    By Benjamin Moser  September 19, 2019
    English 101

    High School English: Balancing the Job with the Calling

    By Nick Ripatrazone  September 18, 2019
    Japan

    Pico Iyer on the Infinite
    Silences of Japan

    By Pico Iyer  September 18, 2019
    Literary History

    My First Library Was a Library of Porn

    By Brian D. Bouldrey  September 17, 2019
    Haunted Houses

    On the Haunted Lives of Girls and Women

    By Rachel Eve Moulton  September 17, 2019
    Language

    Of Sisterly Bonds and Translating the Untranslatable

    By Jennifer Croft  September 17, 2019
    5 Questions

    Kevin Barry on the Need to Sustain Our Literature

    By Literary Hub  September 17, 2019
    Writers in Conversation

    Speaking Black Life Across Generations: A Conversation with Imani Perry

    By Mitchell S. Jackson  September 17, 2019
    End Times

    Can Climate Fiction Be… Hopeful?

    By Literary Hub  September 16, 2019
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