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What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

Heather McGowan on Where Movies and Novels Converge and Diverge

By Heather McGowan | April 15, 2025

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

Seán Hewitt Explores Folk's Constant, Changing Repository of Stories

By Seán Hewitt | April 15, 2025

Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

Virginia Woolf! Ishion Hutchinson! R. Crumb! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 15, 2025

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

Heather Swan on the Many Roles of a Poet, and Friend

By Heather Swan | April 14, 2025

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes... And Other Non-Sentient Objects

Celia Mattison on “Sky Daddy,” “Blob,” and the Allure of the Non-Human Love Interest

By Celia Mattison | April 14, 2025

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Claire Hoffman on Aimee Semple McPherson

By Claire Hoffman | April 14, 2025

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The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

By Tiana Clark | April 14, 2025

Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 14, 2025

Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

By Memoir Nation | April 14, 2025

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of <em>The Stacks</em>, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

Featuring Jonny Diamond, Traci Thomas, Olivia Rutigliano, Dan Sheehan, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | April 11, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

“An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 11, 2025

Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

“It gave me permission to indulge myself and my characters.”

By Natalia Theodoridou | April 11, 2025

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

Andy Anderegg on Writing a Book About Escaping When You’re Going in Circles

By Andy Anderegg | April 11, 2025

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience

By Moeen Farrokhi | April 11, 2025

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

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

Featuring Katie Kitamura, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vauhini Vara, and More

By Book Marks | April 11, 2025

Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

Daryl Gregory Remembers the Reader Who Transformed His Storytelling

By Daryl Gregory | April 11, 2025

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