When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

Jennifer duBois on the Emergent 'I'

By Jennifer duBois | April 11, 2019

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a "Millennial Writer"

Even If We Agree She's a Great One

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2019

What Do We Really Mean By<br> 'Women's Fiction'?

What Do We Really Mean By
'Women's Fiction'?

Rachel Howard Recommends 6 Essays on the Gendering of Books

By Rachel Howard | April 10, 2019

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

"The metaphor reveals a world behind the world of things."

By Mateo Askaripour | April 10, 2019

When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is <em>Actually</em> About

When a Reader Figures Out What Your Book is Actually About

Marcia Butler on Coming to Terms with Her Lifelong Dream Coming True

By Marcia Butler | April 10, 2019

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling<br> Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

"Some of the essays seem to have been written last week, so fresh are the topics."

By Annie Proulx | April 10, 2019

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 9, 2019

Even My Imaginary Male Muses
Don't Measure Up

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Jennifer DuBois, Angie Kim, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne | April 9, 2019

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise<br> of Maxim Osipov

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
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On the Russian Doctor Who Treats His Characters Like His Patients

By Svetlana Alexievich | April 9, 2019

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On <em>Killing Eve</em>'s Cool Girl Assassin

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve's Cool Girl Assassin

Rachel Vorona Cote: "It can be dangerous to hold someone, fictional or real, in esteem for superficial reasons."

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 8, 2019

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Kobo Abe, and More!

By Emily Temple | April 8, 2019

The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

The Best Argument is a Good Book: Writing Advice from Saul Bellow

"There is such a thing as overcapitalizing the A in artist."

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On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading<br> a Writer's Diary

On the Real-Time Thrill of Reading
a Writer's Diary

From Harry Crosby to John Cheever, Duncan Hannah's Favorite Journals

By Duncan Hannah | April 5, 2019

What John Hughes Taught Me About<br> the Importance of a Name

What John Hughes Taught Me About
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Sloane Tanen on the Lessons of Sloane Peterson

By Sloane Tanen | April 4, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Most Boring, Depressing Book of All Time?

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2019

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