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In Praise of Sex Writing That's About More Than Being Sexy

In Praise of Sex Writing That's About More Than Being Sexy

"I Want to Be Able to Read Stories That Don't Shy Away from Pain and Complexity"

By S. K. Perry | August 23, 2018

Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More

Ada Limón on Kanye West, Womanhood, Truth in Poetry, and More

The Author Of The Carrying in Conversation with Steph Opitz

By Steph Opitz | August 23, 2018

The Art of the Late Bloomer

The Art of the Late Bloomer

On the 18th-Century Artist Mary Delany and the Power of Second Acts

By Corinne Purtill | August 22, 2018

When It Didn't Work Out with a Living Writer, I Turned to the Dead

When It Didn't Work Out with a Living Writer, I Turned to the Dead

Nell Stevens Finds Comfort and Companionship with a 19th-Century Author

By Nell Stevens | August 22, 2018

Ray Bradbury's Greatest Writing Advice

Ray Bradbury's Greatest Writing Advice

Don’t think!"">"I’ve had a sign over my typewriter for over 25 years now: Don’t think!"

By Emily Temple | August 22, 2018

Ben Marcus: Writer's Block Happens When I'm Boring

Ben Marcus: Writer's Block Happens When I'm Boring

The Author of Notes From the Fog on Craft, Joy Williams, and More

By Ben Marcus | August 22, 2018

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The Joy and Terror of Translating James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

By Elena Marcu | August 22, 2018

The Poet Who Survived Stalin's Poems

By Ilya Kutik and Reginald Gibbons | August 21, 2018

The Time I Went Fishing with Barry Hannah

By William Giraldi | August 20, 2018

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz

By Tobias Carroll | August 20, 2018

Kimiko Hahn: Writing Poetry Between Science and Dreams

Kimiko Hahn: Writing Poetry Between Science and Dreams

The Author of Brood in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | August 20, 2018

Why Don't More Boys Read <em>Little Women</em>?

Why Don't More Boys Read Little Women?

Little Women is presumed to be hardly worthy of rescue from
the educational oblivion into which it has fallen."">"Little Women is presumed to be hardly worthy of rescue from
the educational oblivion into which it has fallen."

By Anne Boyd Rioux | August 17, 2018

On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

If a Happy Ending Required Marriage, Forster Was All for Pessimism

By Wendy Moffat | August 16, 2018

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate

By MH Rowe | August 16, 2018

Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Bigoted, Violent, and Swirling with Contradictions

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 14, 2018

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

David Chariandy, Lexi Freiman, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Teddy Wayne | August 14, 2018

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