• Craft and Criticism

    Essay

    The Book That Changed My Life

    By Malcolm Brooks  June 19, 2015
    Conversation

    Most Writers Are Nice, First Drafts Are Terrible

    By Newtonville Books  June 19, 2015
    Essay

    If Not Donny Osmond Then Maybe Someone Else

    By Jeff Oaks  June 18, 2015
    Essay

    When Nerds Play Sports

    By Erin Somers  June 18, 2015
    Excerpts

    Nell Zink’s ‘Mislaid’ in 10 Quotations

    By Oscar Van Gelderen  June 18, 2015
    Essay

    It Starts With Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 18, 2015
    Daily practice

    In Praise of the Book Tower

    By Susan Harlan  June 17, 2015
    Essay

    The Joy of Throwing Away An Entire Novel

    By Laura Dave  June 17, 2015
    Criticism

    Genre Wars, Amazon, and the Market for Heart

    By M. C. Mah  June 16, 2015
    Literary Criticism

    The Life of the Doctor as Writer

    By Ray Barfield  June 12, 2015
    Conversation

    The Places We Read

    By Michele Filgate  June 12, 2015
    What to Read

    Island Life: A Hawaiian Reading List

    By Amy Hundley  June 11, 2015
    Conversation

    Jack Livings Wrote the Best First Book of the Year

    By Oscar Villalon  June 11, 2015
    Conversation

    Traveling Deep Below the Surface of the Book

    By Literary Hub  June 11, 2015
    Novelists

    Saul Bellow’s Nobel Lecture from 1976

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Irvine Welsh Comes to America

    By Charles Arrowsmith  June 10, 2015
    Criticism

    Saul Bellow: Of Crackpots and Conmen

    By Benjamin Markovits  June 10, 2015
    Conversation

    Jim Shepard: in the Shadows of the Holocaust

    By Bethanne Patrick  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    Nabokov in America

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 9, 2015
    Criticism

    The True Fictions of Joan Didion

    By Nathan Deuel  June 8, 2015
    What to Read

    Interview with a Bookstore: Politics & Prose

    By Interview with a Bookstore  June 8, 2015
    Criticism

    The Insults of Age

    By Helen Garner  June 5, 2015
    Conversation

    Spooky Fiction At a Distance

    By Maxine Chernoff  June 4, 2015
    Conversation

    Writing is Easy, Revising is Hard

    By Newtonville Books  June 4, 2015
    Criticism

    Manners, Morality, and Mid-Century Feminism

    By Roxana Robinson  June 3, 2015
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