Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer's Block and Women With Swords

Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer's Block and Women With Swords

5 Questions for the Best-Selling Writer of Embrace Your Weird

By Felicia Day | October 1, 2019

On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature's Most Necessary Characters

On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature's Most Necessary Characters

Alberto Manguel Considers the Bore Who Inspires Passion

By Alberto Manguel | October 1, 2019

Why Newspaper

Why Newspaper "Scoops" Don't Work in Narrative Nonfiction

Steve Luxenberg on Journalism Versus Storytelling

By Steve Luxenberg | October 1, 2019

Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

Why Give a Rapist a Voice?

Jeannie Vanasco on Writing the Character of Her Abuser

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 1, 2019

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

Cornel West on the Revolutionary Politics of the Foundry Theatre

"To live in this hell of a world does not trump our capacity to leave a little heaven behind."

By Cornel West | October 1, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

Karl Ove Knausgaard on the Writing of Jon Fosse

Thoughts on One of Norway's Great Writers, Just in Time
for Nobel Season

By Karl Ove Knausgaard | September 30, 2019

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Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

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When Will Ben Lerner Admit He's a Novelist?

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On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

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In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

Maya Phillips on Wandering Through a Fallen Kingdom

By Maya Phillips | September 30, 2019

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

“Wait, dog point of view wasn’t allowed?”

By Anthony Doerr | September 30, 2019

The Writer You've Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

The Writer You've Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

Mark Haber on the Life and Writing of Mila Menendez Krause

By Mark Haber | September 27, 2019

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

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