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In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father's Journey Home

Maya Phillips on Wandering Through a Fallen Kingdom

By Maya Phillips | September 30, 2019

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

Anthony Doerr on Throwing Out All the Rules for Writing a Short Story

“Wait, dog point of view wasn’t allowed?”

By Anthony Doerr | September 30, 2019

The Writer You've Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

The Writer You've Never Heard of That Made My Book Possible

Mark Haber on the Life and Writing of Mila Menendez Krause

By Mark Haber | September 27, 2019

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

Sonya Huber: "Tell. Tell me everything."

By Sonya Huber | September 27, 2019

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in September

By Literary Hub | September 27, 2019

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

In a Sudan Where Literature is Often Smuggled, the Short Story is a Perfect Form

Marcia Lynx Qualey on the Rise of a Complex, Capacious Literary Genre

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | September 27, 2019

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The Freedom of Tossing The Scarlet Letter From a High School Curriculum

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“In life, as in literature, a horse is never just a horse.”

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Grown Ups Were Getting on Her Nerves, so Rivka Galchen Wrote a Kids' Book

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When Writing for Adults Loses Its Joy

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Writing As Therapy: My Year of Teaching in the Locked Ward

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On the Famous Photograph of My Late Uncle That Inspired a Collection

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Maybe the Secret to Writing is Not Writing?

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Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, <em>The Dutch House</em>

Ann Patchett Discusses Her New Novel, The Dutch House

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By Ann Patchett | September 23, 2019

Live at the Red Ink Series: <br> on the Writer's Quest for Authenticity

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