• Craft and Criticism

    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Shane McCrae Is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  August 3, 2023
    What to Watch

    Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

    By Hannah Bonner  August 3, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  August 3, 2023
    Inspiration

    J. Vanessa Lyon on Finding Inspiration in the Photography of James Van Der Zee

    By J. Vanessa Lyon  August 2, 2023
    Experimental Fiction

    When Cause Doesn’t Follow Effect: How to Structure the Strange

    By Rebekah Bergman  August 2, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

    By Literary Hub  August 2, 2023
    Keen On

    Laura Warrell on How Novels Can Teach Us To Love

    By Keen On  August 2, 2023
    The Hub

    Here is the 2023 Booker Prize longlist!

    By Janet Manley  August 1, 2023
    Relationships

    Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

    By Bee Sacks  August 1, 2023
    Food

    On the Joys of Food-Centered Fiction

    By Michelle Wildgen  August 1, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jimin Han on Filling Narrative Blank Spaces With Memory and Imagination

    By Jane Ciabattari  August 1, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Ann Patchett on Grabbing Galleys and Getting Drafts Done

    By Literary Hub  August 1, 2023
    Physics

    The Universe is an Unreliable Narrator: Mindy Mejia Litsplains Physics

    By Mindy Mejia  August 1, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Nathaniel Rich on Storytelling and the Climate Crisis

    By Talk Easy  August 1, 2023
    Queer Literature

    How Exile Allowed Shastri Akella to Write a Queer Novel

    By Shastri Akella  July 31, 2023
    Indian Literature

    Pankaj Mishra on the Eternal Present of Amit Chaudhuri’s The Immortals

    By Pankaj Mishra  July 31, 2023
    The Booker Revisited

    The Booker Revisited: Caroline Blackwood’s Darkly Humorous Great Granny Webster

    By Lucy Scholes  July 31, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The History of Literature Puts Langston Hughes in Context

    By History of Literature  July 31, 2023
    First Draft

    Hernan Diaz Has No Draft Two

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   July 31, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gail Warner on Parent-Adult Child Dynamics for Writers

    By Write-minded   July 31, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Yael Goldstein-Love on Elegantly Weaving Science into Fiction

    By Yael Goldstein-Love  July 28, 2023
    Reading Lists

    July’s Best Reviewed Fiction

    By Book Marks  July 28, 2023
    Reading Lists

    July’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

    By Book Marks  July 28, 2023
    Family Histories

    Anita Gail Jones on Crafting Fiction From Family Heirlooms

    By Anita Gail Jones  July 27, 2023
    Queer Culture

    Come Join the Party! Lessons from Visiting Every Gay and Lesbian Bar in the Country

    By Literary Hub  July 27, 2023
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