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    I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are… not great!

    By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2024
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    Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

    By Oliver Sacks  November 18, 2024
    The Writing Life

    A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

    By Bryan VanDyke  November 18, 2024
    Write-minded

    Carvell Wallace on Embracing Contradiction

    By Write-minded   November 18, 2024
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Sleuthing Around at an Actual Nancy Drew Convention

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   November 15, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 15, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Adrian Tomine on Building a Creative Career

    By Adrian Tomine  November 15, 2024
    Ecopoetics

    Poems of Power and Our Planet: Six Essential Ecopoetry Collections to Read

    By Dorsía Smith Silva  November 15, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 14, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  November 14, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Good Friend’s Partner is a Terrible Writer and I HATE IT: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  November 14, 2024
    What If?

    Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

    By Padma Viswanathan  November 14, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  November 14, 2024
    Parenthood

    “She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

    By Olivia A. Cole  November 14, 2024
    National Book Awards

    Meet the 2024 National Book
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    By Literary Hub  November 13, 2024
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires: How The Great Gatsby Changed the Landscape of New York City

    By John Marsh  November 13, 2024
    Filipino Literature

    A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

    By Patrick Rosal  November 13, 2024
    Family Stories

    Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

    By Linda Grant  November 13, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today.

    By Gabrielle Bellot  November 12, 2024
    Black Activism

    Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

    By W. Ralph Eubanks  November 12, 2024
    Poetry

    The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

    By Literary Hub  November 12, 2024
    In Conversation

    Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 12, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  November 12, 2024
    Rereadings

    Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

    By Ann Patchett  November 11, 2024
    Historical Fiction

    On Understanding and Capturing the Horrors of War and Fascism

    By Julian Zabalbeascoa  November 11, 2024
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