• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    A Brief History of Litquake, a San Francisco Literary Institution

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 4, 2017
    Q and A

    Jeffrey Eugenides on Falling in Love with Reading (with Help from His Mom)

    By Literary Hub  October 4, 2017
    History

    A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

    By Nichole LeFebvre  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    The Prettiest Way to Die

    By Christina Newland  October 3, 2017
    Archives

    Why Digital Note-Taking Will Never Replace the Physical Journal

    By Bradford Morrow  October 3, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Ralph Ellison’s Tragicomic Soul

    By Alejandro Nava  October 3, 2017
    Criticism

    Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

    By Hayley Singer  October 2, 2017
    Conversations

    All Memoir Titles Should Be Fleetwood Mac Songs

    By Emily Gould  October 2, 2017
    Conversations

    Paul Auster: I Don’t Even Know if The New York Trilogy is Very Good.

    By Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt  October 2, 2017
    Archives

    Read William S. Burroughs’s Hate Letter to Truman Capote

    By Emily Temple  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Couldn’t Read While Grieving, Until I Found These Books

    By Veronica Henry  September 29, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Looking at the World Through My Character’s Eyes

    By Alison Moore  September 29, 2017
    Deep Dive

    My Own Personal Herakles

    By Renée Branum  September 29, 2017
    Archives

    Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

    By Emily Temple  September 29, 2017
    Criticism

    We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

    By Gabrielle Bellot  September 29, 2017
    Advice

    When I’m Writing Fiction, I Cannot Read It

    By Anne Korkeakivi  September 28, 2017
    Conversations

    “I Didn’t Want to Write Another Dead-Mother Memoir”

    By Melody Nixon  September 28, 2017
    Conversations

    Interview with a Gatekeeper: Colin Dickerman Isn’t As Shy As He Thinks

    By Kerri Arsenault  September 28, 2017
    Advice

    5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Toronto

    By Deidre Olsen  September 28, 2017
    Conversations

    Danez Smith: My Grandparents Were the First Poets I Knew

    By Peter Mishler  September 27, 2017
    Op-Ed

    What We Can Learn from “Ordinary” Nazis

    By Jessica Shattuck  September 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

    By Adrian McKinty  September 27, 2017
    Deep Dive

    The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

    By Scott Spencer  September 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Marianne Moore’s Sexist Reception

    By Evan Kindley  September 27, 2017
    Close Reading

    We Can’t Ignore H.P. Lovecraft’s White Supremacy

    By Wes House  September 26, 2017
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