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Etgar Keret on Reading to His Kids (and Getting Slapped at a Reading)

Etgar Keret on Reading to His Kids (and Getting Slapped at a Reading)

Part two of his Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | September 21, 2016

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

What Jane Austen Can Teach Us About Building Suspense

How to Use Dramatic Irony and Plot Secrets

By Rebecca Smith | September 21, 2016

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Ask the Publicists: But What About My Book?

Introducing a Monthly Advice Column from Broadside PR

By Literary Hub | September 20, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

Is

Is "Show Don't Tell" a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

Writing Advice from Edward Albee

When One of the Great Playwrights of the 20th Century Visits Your High School

By Neil Goldstein Glick | September 20, 2016

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On the Irresistible Pull of Tidal Metaphors

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams | September 20, 2016

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

By Alan Glynn | September 19, 2016

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

By Liz Kay | September 19, 2016

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

On Javier Marías, Roberto Bolaño, and a Double Dose of Defamiliarization

By Michael Helm | September 16, 2016

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Dear Rick Moody: Why Do Men Spinster-bait?

Rick Moody, Life Coach, on Male Fear of the Symbolic Feminine

By Rick Moody | September 16, 2016

Lauren Groff: The Books in My Life

Lauren Groff: The Books in My Life

On Which Books Unhealthily Reset Her Brain and Drive Her to Netflix

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2016

Etgar Keret On Time Travel, TV, and Writing About His Father

Etgar Keret On Time Travel, TV, and Writing About His Father

The Author of The Seven Good Years Talks to Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | September 15, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

From Krakow to Auschwitz, and Letting Go of Characters

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

Ruth Scurr's Unconventional Biography Reveals the Genius of John Aubrey

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

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