How What I've Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

How What I've Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

Brett Paesel on Letting Emotional Logic Do the Work

By Brett Paesel | April 12, 2019

Lizzie Post Got Stoned Every Day to Write About Pot Etiquette

Lizzie Post Got Stoned Every Day to Write About Pot Etiquette

On the Manners Around Cannabis Use

By Eric Vilas-Boas | April 11, 2019

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

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Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
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Jennifer DuBois, Angie Kim, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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Svetlana Alexievich in Praise<br> of Maxim Osipov

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

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

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

By Duncan Hannah | April 5, 2019

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