Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Sean Adams on the Community of Writers and
Its Accompanying Pressures

By Sean Adams | January 6, 2020

Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry's <em>The Street</em>

Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry's The Street

“Crossing the line between belles lettres and pulp, Petry is
a pioneer of the literary thriller.”

By Tayari Jones | January 6, 2020

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

The FP Staff Shares Favorite Titles From the Last Half Century

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2020

The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

We Asked the Best Readers We Know What Books
Stayed With Them This Year

By Literary Hub | December 30, 2019

Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories of 2019

The Best Writing at the Site in the Year That Was

By Literary Hub | December 20, 2019

How to Break in to Publishing If You're a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

How to Break in to Publishing If You're a Smalltown Brazilian Mayor in the 1930s

Novelist Graciliano Ramos's Reports to the Governor of Alagoas Are Literature Unto Themselves

By Padma Viswanathan and Graciliano Ramos | December 20, 2019

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Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life

By Randy O'Brien | December 19, 2019

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Visiting Jeff VanderMeer's Weird, Wondrous Worlds

Erin Berger Catches Up With the Author of Dead Astronauts

By Erin Berger | December 18, 2019

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

Laleh Khadivi on Who Owns a Story

By Laleh Khadivi | December 18, 2019

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

One Man's Literary Crusade to Uncensor Sex in America

On Gershon Legman, Original Sex-Positive Hipster Intellectual

By Susan G. Davis | December 18, 2019

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

The Pain, Hidden in Plain Sight, of John Cheever's Darkest Work

Rick Moody on Bullet Park

By Rick Moody | December 18, 2019

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?

By Jim Davies | December 18, 2019

Unearthing the Stories of Australia's Working Class

Unearthing the Stories of Australia's Working Class

Enza Gandolfo on Finding Herself in the Novels of Dorothy Hewitt

By Enza Gandolfo | December 18, 2019

Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 18, 2019

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