How <em>The Baby-Sitters Club</em> Influenced a Generation of Writers

How The Baby-Sitters Club Influenced a Generation of Writers

BSC Editor David Levithan Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 15, 2021

Roberto Bolaño's best advice for writing short stories is . . . pretty wild.

Roberto Bolaño's best advice for writing short stories is . . . pretty wild.

By Emily Temple | July 14, 2021

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

Plot Is Just Music You Sing In Your Mind: How Popular Rock Songs Can Help Shape Your Novel

Katie Crouch on Structure, Character Development, and the Band CAKE

By Katie Crouch | July 14, 2021

Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

Kaveh Akbar on Getting Sober and the Supernatural Language of Writing

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 14, 2021

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

The Struggles of a Great American Writer, Revealed in Letters to Her Parents

By Shirley Jackson | July 14, 2021

Matt Bell on Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets

Matt Bell on Heeding the Dire Climate Warnings of Our Best Literary Prophets

The Author of Appleseed Recommends Work by Octavia Butler, Rebecca Roanhorse, Paolo Bacigalupi, and More

By Matt Bell | July 14, 2021

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Voyage Into Genre with T. L. Huchu, P. Djèlí Clark, and Kamau Ware

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | July 14, 2021

From Fabulist Stories to Cold War Potboilers: 5 Books You May Have Missed in June

By Bethanne Patrick | July 14, 2021

Matt Bell on Solving Crises Through Speculative Fiction (and Having Fun Doing It)

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 14, 2021

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

The Importance of Forgetting: Where Borges and Child Psychiatrists Agree

Scott A. Small on the Surprising Benefits of Memory Loss

By scottasmall | July 13, 2021

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

Dana Spiotta on Turning to James Joyce for Inspiration and the Power of Cultural Reckonings

The Author of Wayward in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 13, 2021

21 new books to accompany you on your summer adventures.

21 new books to accompany you on your summer adventures.

By Katie Yee | July 13, 2021

Searching for <em>Moby-Dick</em> (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Searching for Moby-Dick (and the Elusive Truths of America’s Pastime)

Rick White on Bill James, Herman Melville, and the Whaleness of Whiteyball

By Rick White | July 13, 2021

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

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

Featuring Anuk Arudpragasam, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, Elizabeth Greenwood, and More

By Teddy Wayne | July 13, 2021

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

To Write a Comic Novel, I Had to Shed the Weight of Expectation (and Adopt a New Name)

Tahmima Anam on the Serious Business of Being Funny

By Tahmima Anam | July 13, 2021

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from <em>Dear Black Girl</em>

Tamara Winfrey-Harris Performs a Passage from Dear Black Girl

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | July 13, 2021

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