• Craft and Criticism

    Criticism

    Did Mark Z. Danielewski Just Reinvent the Novel?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 13, 2015
    Criticism

    The Mislaid Plans of Nell Zink

    By Alex Heimbach  May 13, 2015
    Criticism

    My Salinger Year

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 12, 2015
    Criticism

    Resurrecting An Extinct Novel: On Rereading ‘Alexandrian Summer’

    By Yitzhak Gormezano Goren  May 12, 2015
    Conversation

    Meghan Daum, Live in the Capital

    By Hannah Depp  May 12, 2015
    Essay

    The Real World vs. The MFA

    By Marian Palaia  May 11, 2015
    News and Culture

    Interview with a Bookstore: Tattered Cover

    By Interview with a Bookstore  May 11, 2015
    Conversations

    The View of Haiti from Brooklyn

    By Kerri Arsenault  May 8, 2015
    Essay

    On Memoir: Ondaatje, Smith, and Sante

    By Kerri Arsenault  May 8, 2015
    Essay

    How to Write the Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child

    By Jim Shepard  May 7, 2015
    Speech

    Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?

    By Aminatta Forna  May 6, 2015
    Essay

    The Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life

    By Christopher Frizzelle  May 6, 2015
    Conversation

    ‘The Argonauts’: Diary, Theory, Poem, Memoir

    By Adam Fitzgerald  May 5, 2015
    What to Read

    Five Great Contemporary Mexican Writers

    By Will Evans  May 5, 2015
    Q and A

    Interview with a Bookstore: BookCourt

    By Interview with a Bookstore  May 4, 2015
    Conversation

    Paul Beatty: On Satire and the Totality of Evil

    By Literary Hub  May 4, 2015
    Conversation

    How to Ignore Reviewers Without Even Trying

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2015
    Conversation

    Melville, The Internet, and Having No Rules

    By Newtonville Books  May 1, 2015
    Conversation

    On the Lost Art of the Comic War Novel

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2015
    Conversation

    Independent Bookstore Day is Coming!

    By Literary Hub  April 30, 2015
    Criticism

    On Choosing to Write in a Second Language

    By Antonio Ruiz-Camacho  April 29, 2015
    Conversation

    Valeria Luiselli: “A Writer is a Social Climber.”

    By Ted Hodgkinson  April 29, 2015
    Conversation

    Oscar Wilde Was Gay, and Other Revelations

    By Newtonville Books  April 29, 2015
    Dear aspiring writer

    The Anxiety of the First-Time Novelist

    By Mark Andrew Ferguson  April 28, 2015
    Conversation

    Knausgaard on Masculinity, Excrement, and Quitting

    By John Freeman  April 27, 2015
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