• Craft and Criticism

    Conversations

    Lost in the Basque Country

    By Literary Hub  September 11, 2015
    Conversations

    In Which Padgett Powell Employs an Extended Scatological Metaphor

    By Literary Hub  September 10, 2015
    Conversations

    The Immigrant Story As Noir

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 10, 2015
    Conversations

    Haikus of Grief, Silence in Harlem

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2015
    Essay

    David Lipsky Ends Up Becoming Himself

    By Ed Winstead  September 4, 2015
    Daily practice

    A Writing Lesson from Ursula K. Le Guin

    By Ursula K. Le Guin  September 3, 2015
    Excerpts

    Writing Across the Landscape

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 3, 2015
    Deep Dive

    Elena Ferrante: Master of the Epic Anti-Epic

    By Aaron Bady  September 2, 2015
    Essay

    Paul Auster is Speaking Directly to Me Through His Books

    By Mark Andrew Ferguson  September 2, 2015
    Conversations

    When We Were Young and Lost

    By Literary Hub  September 1, 2015
    What to Read

    Ten Great Books With Their Own Languages

    By Stephen Sparks  September 1, 2015
    Essay

    A Literary History of the Nose

    By Dustin Illingworth  September 1, 2015
    Essay

    We Need Diverse Diverse Books

    By Matthew Salesses  August 31, 2015
    Essay

    One of the All-Time Great One-Hit Wonder Novels

    By Aaron Gilbreath  August 28, 2015
    Music

    Songs for the Road: A Book Tour Playlist

    By Justin Taylor  August 28, 2015
    A Day in the Life

    On the Total Weirdness of the Book Tour

    By Justin Taylor  August 26, 2015
    Criticism

    In Praise of the New Modernists

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 26, 2015
    Criticism

    A History of Encounters with The Lover

    By Laura van den Berg  August 25, 2015
    Expert opinion

    On Having Your Book Turned into a Movie

    By Emma Donoghue  August 25, 2015
    Expert opinion

    When the Editor Becomes the Writer

    By Jill Bialosky  August 24, 2015
    Conversation

    I Write a Novel and Poems Come Out

    By Adam Fitzgerald  August 21, 2015
    Criticism

    Reclaiming David Foster Wallace from the Lit-Bros

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  August 20, 2015
    Conversation

    On the Intense Power of Literary Friendship

    By Literary Hub  August 20, 2015
    Daily practice

    When I Quit Basketball to Become a Writer

    By Andrew Malan Milward  August 19, 2015
    Short story writers

    American Women: Masters of the Short Story

    By Bridget Read  August 19, 2015
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