The Case for Teaching Depressing Books

The Case for Teaching Depressing Books

Sahar Mustafah on the Literature of Empathy and Action

By Sahar Mustafah | April 7, 2020

How Having a Writing Community Stimulates Creativity

How Having a Writing Community Stimulates Creativity

Mary Gannon and Kevin Larimer on Finding Your People

By Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon | April 7, 2020

Finding Permission to Fail in<br> <em>A Confederacy of Dunces</em>

Finding Permission to Fail in
A Confederacy of Dunces

Mary Pauline Lowry on Its Grotesque Charms

By Mary Pauline Lowry | April 7, 2020

What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We're Different)

What Two Imaginary Cats Tell Us About Who We Are (and How We're Different)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett on the Chaos of Feline Energy

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett | April 7, 2020

A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

A Pandemic is Not a War (and Other Consequences of Male Inferiority)

Nathaniel Popkin on the Sad and Stupid Men Who're Making Things Worse

By Nathaniel Popkin | April 6, 2020

My Dystopian Fiction Longs for a Better World

My Dystopian Fiction Longs for a Better World

Veronica Roth on Pessimism, Optimism. . . and Schitt's Creek

By Veronica Roth | April 6, 2020

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Ken Liu on Identity and the Limits of Human Empathy

By New Books Network | April 6, 2020

How to Organize Your
Home Office

By Ronda Kaysen and Michelle Higgins | April 3, 2020

This is How You Write a Collaborative Essay

By Patrick Madden | April 1, 2020

Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

Breyten Breytenbach Asks What if Exile Itself Were a Home?

On the Uncitizens of the the Middle World

By Breyten Breytenbach | April 1, 2020

Yoko Tawada: 'Language is a Living Thing'

Yoko Tawada: 'Language is a Living Thing'

The Author of The Emissary in Conversation With Madeleine Thien

By Literary Hub | April 1, 2020

Samantha Irby Absolutely Does Not Want Michelle Obama to Read Her Book

Samantha Irby Absolutely Does Not Want Michelle Obama to Read Her Book

Also, Why Riffing on TV is a Great Way to Break Writer's Block

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2020

C Pam Zhang on Writing in a Time of Grief

C Pam Zhang on Writing in a Time of Grief

"That mountain is not insurmountable."

By C Pam Zhang | March 31, 2020

Trying to Teach High School During a Global Pandemic

Trying to Teach High School During a Global Pandemic

was stolen from us."">"Our school year was already in its final act, and now its climax
was stolen from us."

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 31, 2020

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories in This Strange Long Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories in This Strange Long Month

The Best Writing at the Site in March

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2020

The Long Tradition of Writers Needing Ritual

The Long Tradition of Writers Needing Ritual

On Taking Inspiration From Famous Authors' Creative Processes

By Amitava Kumar | March 27, 2020

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