• Craft and Criticism

    Excerpts

    The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 19, 2016
    How to...

    Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event

    By Tim Johnson  January 15, 2016
    Essay

    My First Writing Job: Copyboy at the Daily News

    By Warren Adler  January 15, 2016
    Conversations

    Interview with a Gatekeeper: Lee Boudreaux

    By Kerri Arsenault  January 14, 2016
    Design

    A Brief History of Book Illustration

    By Chris Russell  January 14, 2016
    Conversations

    Up in the Attic: A Writers’ Haven in Portland

    By Michele Filgate  January 13, 2016
    Conversations

    How a Mother-Daughter Translation Team Makes it Work

    By Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relano  January 13, 2016
    Essay

    On Being a Writer Who Can’t Read

    By James Tate Hill  January 12, 2016
    Advice

    How to Live Cheaply and Finish Your Novel

    By Sunil Yapa  January 12, 2016
    Events

    Lit Scene: A Night Out With Irish Women Writers

    By Sarah Davis-Goff  January 11, 2016
    Advice

    Rick Moody, Life Coach: I Need to Learn to Fight

    By Rick Moody  January 11, 2016
    Feature

    How to Write a Book With an Anonymous Private Military Contractor

    By Ralph Pezzullo  January 11, 2016
    What to Read

    Five Finnish Writers You Should Know

    By Johanna Sinisalo  January 8, 2016
    Feature

    Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 8, 2016
    Essay

    How I Gave Up On the Great American Novel and Got a Book Deal

    By Ed Tarkington  January 7, 2016
    Essay

    On Writers, Hoarders, and Their Clutter

    By Barry Yourgrau  January 7, 2016
    Conversations

    Christopher Buckley on Faith, Relics, and the Republican Party

    By Bethanne Patrick  January 6, 2016
    Conversations

    A 200-Year-Old Writing Center

    By Michele Filgate  January 6, 2016
    Essay

    The Time My Grown-Up Novel Was Marketed As Young Adult

    By Kate Axelrod  January 5, 2016
    Essay

    A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  January 4, 2016
    Essay

    Noel Coward, Reluctant Screenwriter

    By Barry Day  December 30, 2015
    Essay

    Why I Quit My Job as a Corporate Editor

    By Sarah Knight  December 29, 2015
    What to Read

    The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer

    By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz  December 23, 2015
    Feature

    Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

    By Devoney Looser  December 23, 2015
    Criticism

    The Importance of Being Orwell

    By Christopher Hitchens  December 22, 2015
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