• Craft and Criticism

    I'm a Writer But

    Barrie Miskin on Plumbing Dark Places

    By I'm a Writer But   July 16, 2024
    Horror

    What Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark” Can Teach Horror Writers

    By Jordan Kopy  July 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    Margaret Juhae Lee on How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing

    By Write-minded   July 15, 2024
    Reckonings

    Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

    By Jonny Diamond  July 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Two Authors, One Subject: Zoë Eisenberg and Rhaina Cohen on Writing Intimate Friendships

    By Literary Hub  July 12, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  July 12, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    “I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

    By Howard Norman  July 12, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ayeşgül Savaş on Creating Your Story’s Clock

    By Aysegül Savas  July 12, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Robert Petkoff on Finding the Narrative Voice

    By Behind the Mic   July 12, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  July 11, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  July 11, 2024
    craft advice

    Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers

    By Liz Riggs  July 11, 2024
    Storytelling

    “Tell It To Me Singing.” On Diaspora, Community and Cuban-American Stories

    By Tita Ramirez  July 11, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 11, 2024
    In Conversation

    A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

    By Sarah Viren  July 10, 2024
    Creativity

    On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice

    By Stacey D'Erasmo  July 10, 2024
    Representation

    Write More “Indianly,” or Else: Asha Thanki on the Trap of “Authentic” Writing

    By Asha Thanki  July 10, 2024
    Irish Literature

    Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

    By Jan Carson  July 10, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Christina Sharpe on John Keene’s Counternarratives

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   July 10, 2024
    Publishing

    If You’re Going to Platform Extremists You Should At Least Check Their Facts

    By Maris Kreizman  July 9, 2024
    Cultural History

    A Deal With the Devil: What the Age-Old Faustian Bargain Reveals About the Modern World

    By Ed Simon  July 9, 2024
    Literary Criticism

    Kevin Barry on Reimagining the Novel: “You Can’t Be Afraid to Go Nuts on the Page”

    By Dan Sheehan  July 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Why Did Taffy Brodesser-Akner Go to a Psychic to Fix Her Writer’s Block?

    By Literary Hub  July 9, 2024
    The Writing Life

    A Room of One’s Own: In Praise of Seclusion in the Service of Craft

    By Ben Shattuck  July 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  July 9, 2024
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