• Craft and Criticism

    Craft and Advice

    Cecelia Ahern on How She Writes
    a Novel a Year

    By Cecelia Ahern  April 16, 2019
    Politics

    What Does Ulysses Tell Us About
    Pete Buttigieg?

    By Tyler Malone  April 15, 2019
    Religion

    Why Are So Many Fictional Teens
    Entering Cults?

    By Katherine Cusumano  April 15, 2019
    MFA Life

    Prepping for MFA Programs as
    a Person of Color

    By Hebah Uddin  April 15, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  April 15, 2019
    The CIA

    The CIA Scheme That Brought
    Doctor Zhivago to The World

    By Rebecca Renner  April 12, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

    By Rachel Richardson  April 12, 2019
    In Conversation

    Reclaiming Anger and Denial:
    A Red Ink Roundtable

    By Literary Hub  April 12, 2019
    Advice

    How What I’ve Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

    By Brett Paesel  April 12, 2019
    Politics

    Lizzie Post Got Stoned Every Day to Write About Pot Etiquette

    By Eric Vilas-Boas  April 11, 2019
    Advice

    When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

    By Jennifer duBois  April 11, 2019
    Millennials?

    Let’s All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a “Millennial Writer”

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2019
    Criticism

    What Do We Really Mean By
    ‘Women’s Fiction’?

    By Rachel Howard  April 10, 2019
    Civil Rights

    Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

    By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
    Debut Novels

    When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is Actually About

    By Marcia Butler  April 10, 2019
    The West

    Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
    Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

    By Annie Proulx  April 10, 2019
    How to...

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 9, 2019
    Essay

    Even My Imaginary Male Muses
    Don’t Measure Up

    By Jen Mediano  April 9, 2019
    Features

    Jennifer DuBois, Angie Kim, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  April 9, 2019
    On Translation

    Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
    of Maxim Osipov

    By Svetlana Alexievich  April 9, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve‘s Cool Girl Assassin

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  April 8, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

    By Emily Temple  April 8, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
    a Writer’s Diary

    By Duncan Hannah  April 5, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    What John Hughes Taught Me About
    the Importance of a Name

    By Sloane Tanen  April 4, 2019
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