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The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

Sonya Huber: "Tell. Tell me everything."

By Sonya Huber | September 27, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in September

By Literary Hub | September 27, 2019

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

Marcia Lynx Qualey on the Rise of a Complex, Capacious Literary Genre

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | September 27, 2019

Here's What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub's Climate Change Reading List

Here's What High Schoolers Thought of Lit Hub's Climate Change Reading List

What Do They Actually Want to Read?

By Mark Gozonsky | September 26, 2019

The Freedom of Tossing <em>The Scarlet Letter</em> From a High School Curriculum

The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

Noah Cho on Finding and Teaching Literature that Reflects His Classroom

By Noah Cho | September 26, 2019

How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

How Rainbow Rowell Weaponized Fandom for Good

Dana Schwartz on Fictional Books Within Fictional Books

By Dana Schwartz | September 25, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • The Ten Year Affair
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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Since When Did Animals Become Synonymous With
Our Grief?

By Rebecca Renner | September 25, 2019

Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids' Book

By Rivka Galchen | September 25, 2019

Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

By Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | September 25, 2019

On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

Jake Skeets Finds Inspiration in the Images of Avedon

By Jake Skeets | September 24, 2019

Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

Kate Angus on the Importance of Fallow Periods

By Kate Angus | September 24, 2019

Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, <em>The Dutch House</em>

Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

In Conversation with Author Mary Laura Philpott

By Ann Patchett | September 23, 2019

Live at the Red Ink Series: <br> on the Writer's Quest for Authenticity

Live at the Red Ink Series:
on the Writer's Quest for Authenticity

Mira Jacob, Jennifer Pastiloff, Deborah Landau, Grace Talusan, and Hannah Tinti in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 23, 2019

Lisa Cortes On Finding the Right Book at the Right Time

Lisa Cortes On Finding the Right Book at the Right Time

In Conversation with Will Schwalbe on But That's Another Story

By But That's Another Story | September 23, 2019

Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

Neil Gaiman on the Good Kind of Trolls

Introducing the Spellbinding Folktales of Norway

By Neil Gaiman | September 20, 2019

For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

For Diasporic Writers, Nostalgia is a Powerful Tool For Engaging Home

Rosa Boshier: So Stop Calling It "Sentimental"

By Rosa Boshier | September 20, 2019

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