• Craft and Criticism

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Brandy Jensen on the Mainstreaming of Polyamory

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 16, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  May 16, 2024
    Small Town Stories

    We’re Not in Winesburg Anymore: On the Literature of the Small Town

    By Carolyn Kuebler  May 16, 2024
    On Translation

    The Secret Master: On Translating the Forgotten Argentine Writer Ángel Bonomini

    By Jordan Landsman  May 16, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adelle Waldman on Muckraking Novels

    By History of Literature  May 16, 2024
    Languages

    The Yinzers of Glasgow: On the Scottish Origins of Pittsburgh’s Unique Dialect

    By Ed Simon  May 15, 2024
    Photography

    Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: Lou Stoppard on Pairing Photographs with Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors

    By Rebecca Bengal  May 15, 2024
    Sisters

    Sisterhood of the Traveling Stories: On the Literature of Fictional Sisters

    By Kimberly King Parsons  May 15, 2024
    Indian Literature

    A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

    By Wendy Doniger  May 15, 2024
    The Cosmic Library

    The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

    By The Cosmic Library   May 15, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

    By The Critic and Her Publics   May 14, 2024
    Lit Century

    Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams

    By Lit Century   May 14, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  May 14, 2024
    Death

    Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

    By Tessa Fontaine  May 14, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 14, 2024
    Abortion

    How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

    By Colombe Schneck  May 14, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 14, 2024
    Twitterverse

    Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO’s Girls.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

    By Jon Fosse  May 13, 2024
    Coming out

    Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

    By Bee Sacks  May 13, 2024
    Write-minded

    Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

    By Memoir Nation   May 13, 2024
    First Draft

    Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 13, 2024
    Writing Advice

    Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
    “Ah, Fuck Em.”

    By Alice McDermott  May 10, 2024
    Childhood

    Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

    By Monika Zgustova  May 10, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

    By Karen Tei Yamashita  May 10, 2024
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