• Craft and Criticism

    On Poetry

    Pattiann Rogers on the Scientific Underpinnings of Poetry

    By Pattiann Rogers  April 14, 2023
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 14, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Rachel Beanland on Managing Time in Fiction

    By Rachel Beanland  April 14, 2023
    Short Story Writing

    On the Outsize Power of the Short Story (AKA the Genre of “High Genius”)

    By Daphne Kalotay  April 13, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    Is the Past a Literary Genre Unto Itself?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  April 13, 2023
    Audio

    How Making Audio Erotica Helped Me Write Better Dialogue

    By Selene Ross  April 13, 2023
    The Writing Life

    I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

    By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Alex Mar on the Story of Radical Forgiveness Behind Her New Book

    By The Maris Review  April 13, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 13, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland 

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 13, 2023
    Feminist History

    A Feminist Before Feminism: A Reading List in Honor of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Boston

    By Emily Franklin  April 13, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jinwoo Chong on Taking Three Years to Outline His Novel (and Four Months to Draft It)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 13, 2023
    Film and TV

    22 (More) Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

    By Literary Hub  April 12, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

    By Maggie Smith  April 12, 2023
    Mathematics

    The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

    By Sarah Hart  April 12, 2023
    Thresholds

    Taking Care: Gina Chung on Fostering a Long-Haul Creative Practice

    By Thresholds   April 12, 2023
    Keen On

    William Brewer Explains How Psychedelic Therapy Saved His Life

    By Keen On  April 12, 2023
    Teachers

    Alexandra Robbins Wants More Books Written From the Teacher’s Point of View

    By Alexandra Robbins  April 12, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Joanna Margaret Reads from Her Debut Novel The Bequest

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  April 12, 2023
    Aging

    Juliette Fay on Writing Complex Older Protagonists

    By Juliette Fay  April 12, 2023
    The Hub

    The new EIC of ZYZZYVA is … Oscar Villalon.

    By Janet Manley  April 11, 2023
    Writing About Disability

    Losing My Hearing Showed Me a New Way to Write About the Self

    By John Cotter  April 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Jenny Odell on the Relationship Between Time and Power

    By Talk Easy  April 11, 2023
    Otherppl

    “There is So Much Material Within the Human Race.” Tara Conklin on Writing Funny

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 11, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers 7 Questions No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 11, 2023
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