On the Power of Fiction: 8 Novels About Little-Known Historical Events

On the Power of Fiction: 8 Novels About Little-Known Historical Events

Chanel Cleeton Recommends Zeyn Joukhadar, Vanessa Riley, and More

By Chanel Cleeton | May 7, 2021

Elissa Washuta on the Questions that Animate an Essay

Elissa Washuta on the Questions that Animate an Essay

"I want to control everything, but the essay won’t let me."

By Elissa Washuta | May 7, 2021

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

Writer’s Block? Maggie Shipstead Befriends It Instead of Fighting It

The Author of Great Circle Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 7, 2021

Deborah Lindsay Williams on Asking Better Questions About the Status Quo

Deborah Lindsay Williams on Asking Better Questions About the Status Quo

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | May 7, 2021

Greta Kelly on Beauty as Weaponry in <em>The Frozen Crown</em>

Greta Kelly on Beauty as Weaponry in The Frozen Crown

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 7, 2021

My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

Alison Dean Explores What It Means to Write, Drink, and
Fight to Feel Alive

By Alison Dean | May 6, 2021

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When You’re the Target Audience for the Futurist Paintings of a Long-Dead Swedish Artist

By Patrick Allington | May 6, 2021

On James Baldwin’s Unflinching Exposé of American Greed and Racial Terror

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“Writers Write.” Laura Dave on Writerly Affirmations and Love for Nora Ephron

By Literary Hub | May 6, 2021

Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota’s Literary Community Is Reacting to Racial Injustice

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell
on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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Maggie Shipstead: In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying

Maggie Shipstead: In Praise of Books That Aren’t Totally Satisfying

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 6, 2021

Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | May 6, 2021

Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

Gina Nutt on the Creative Usefulness of Feeling Stuck

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 6, 2021

All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

Joy Lanzendorfer Considers Ambition, Failure, and Serendipity

By Joy Lanzendorfer | May 5, 2021

Tracy K. Smith: How Poetic Vocabulary Helps Us <br>Reclaim Joy

Tracy K. Smith: How Poetic Vocabulary Helps Us
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In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | May 5, 2021

8 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How I Teach High School English

8 Ways the Pandemic Has Changed How I Teach High School English

Nick Ripatrazone Recommends Flexibility, Care, and Rest

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 5, 2021

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