• Craft and Criticism

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    “A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

    By Joyce Carol Oates  October 15, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Mark Haddon! Dorothy Parker! Anthony Bourdain! 26 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 15, 2024
    First Draft

    Elizabeth Strout on Complicated People

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 15, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    IAWB Presents 90s Book Club: Jane Shapiro with Sara Levine

    By I'm a Writer But   October 15, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Writing to Champion People and Causes

    By Write-minded   October 15, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    Why the American Labor Movement Matters: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   October 11, 2024
    Literary Adaptations

    A Beastly Love: Chronicling the Transformative Experience of Motherhood on the Page and on the Screen

    By Literary Hub  October 11, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Who Decides What Asian American Literature Is?

    By Cherry Lou Sy  October 11, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

    By Mark Haber  October 11, 2024
    Craft

    Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers

    By Shelley Noble  October 11, 2024
    Reading Lists

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  October 11, 2024
    Westerns

    Which One of You Sent Me Lonesome Dove in the Mail? Or: Tackling the Great American Western

    By Maris Kreizman  October 10, 2024
    Influences

    From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy

    By Michael Lynn Crews  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Balancing the Books: Five Novels that Explore the Complexities of the Stock Market

    By Samantha Greene Woodruff  October 10, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Don’t Always Make the Best Speakers

    By Kate Greathead  October 10, 2024
    Reading Lists

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 10, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 10, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 9, 2024
    Folklore

    Five Books That Showcase the Fascinating Landscape of European Folklore

    By Ben Edge  October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    Family Stories

    Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

    By Rachel Robbins  October 9, 2024
    The Issues: 2024

    10 Best Books for Understanding American Class

    By Literary Hub  October 8, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Margaret Atwood’s poems! Spamalot! Marie Curie! 25 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  October 8, 2024
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