• Craft and Criticism

    Songwriting

    Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

    By Warren Zanes  May 10, 2023
    Catholicism

    Who Was the Only Sitting President to Contribute to a Literary Journal?

    By Nick Ripatrazone  May 10, 2023
    Otherppl

    Dave Eggers: “The Freedom of the Artist Has to Be Absolute.”

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 10, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Joanne Harris Reads from Her New Thriller Broken Light

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  May 10, 2023
    New Books Tuesdays

    21 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  May 9, 2023
    Hollywood

    Tracing the Evolution of Celebrity Memoirs, from Charles Lindbergh to Will Smith

    By Landon Y. Jones  May 9, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

    By Talk Easy  May 9, 2023
    Artists in Conversation

    Ada Zhang on the Complexity of Capturing Immigrants’ Lives in Fiction

    By Belinda Huijuan Tang  May 9, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  May 9, 2023
    Family Stories

    Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

    By Fae Myenne Ng  May 9, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

    By I'm a Writer But   May 9, 2023
    Write-minded

    Joe Biel on Pushing Boundaries in Book Publishing

    By Write-minded   May 9, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

    By So Many Damn Books  May 9, 2023
    Horror

    What Teaching Shakespeare Taught Me About Writing Horror

    By Nicholas Binge  May 8, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

    By Jeff VanderMeer  May 8, 2023
    Behind the novel

    On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

    By Buzzy Jackson  May 8, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

    By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
    First Draft

    Passing Through Porous Boundaries: Mai Nardone on Navigating Thai and American Culture

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 8, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Eight Mountains is a Testament to the Directors’ Commitment to the Story

    By Elissa Suh  May 5, 2023
    Offices

    Copiers, Cubicles and Colleagues: A Reading List of Office Novels

    By Tania Malik  May 5, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 5, 2023
    Otherppl

    How the Bestseller Lists Work

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 5, 2023
    Keen On

    Leah Johnson on Why It’s More Important For Kids to Save Themselves Than to Save the World

    By Keen On  May 5, 2023
    Feminism

    Chana Porter and Cole Kazdin Talk Food and Feminism

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Abraham Verghese: To Plot or Not to Plot

    By Abraham Verghese  May 5, 2023
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