"Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on." Read Raymond Carver's greatest writing advice.

By Emily Temple | May 25, 2021

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

The Lit Hub Staff Has Spoken

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2021

Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

From the Upcoming Anthology, Living Nations, Living Words

By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez | May 25, 2021

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

Kathleen Rooney Guests on the Lit Century Podcast with Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert

By Lit Century | May 25, 2021

Marisa Silver Revisits the Golden Dawn of Girlhood

Marisa Silver Revisits the Golden Dawn of Girlhood

The Author of The Mysteries in Conversation with Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | May 25, 2021

18 new books to read on the beach this week.

18 new books to read on the beach this week.

By Katie Yee | May 25, 2021

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The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 24, 2021

Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

By Chris Drangle | May 24, 2021

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

By Arielle Zibrak | May 24, 2021

Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | May 24, 2021

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

Linda Rui Feng on the Stories and Books That Cracked Open the Possibilities of Storytelling

By Linda Rui Feng | May 24, 2021

Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

Anna North on Finding a Narrative Space Between Dystopia and Utopia

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 24, 2021

Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

Sharmila Cohen on Books By and About Women

By Sharmila Cohen | May 21, 2021

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

77 Strange, Funny, and Magnificent Book Titles You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

From How to Cook Husbands to Frog Raising for Pleasure and Profit

By Edward Brooke-Hitching | May 21, 2021

To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

To Be a Person: Barrett Swanson and Jordan Kisner in Conversation

The Lost in Summerland Author and Thin Places Author Consider the Myriad Methods of Narrative Structure

By Jordan Kisner | May 21, 2021

When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

When a Year in the Life of Your Last-Chance Debut Novel Coincides with a Global Pandemic

Claire Cox Remembers How the Life Before Became Life As It Is Now

By Claire Cox | May 21, 2021

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