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Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

Playing the End: Alice Austen on Writing Character Like an Actor

“We all have layers; we are all actors playing our parts.”

By Alice Austen | March 14, 2025

The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Villains: Dan Sheehan on Frankenstein's Monster.

The Lit Hub Staff’s Favorite Villains: Dan Sheehan on Frankenstein's Monster.

By Dan Sheehan | March 13, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Pipe Dreams on Pico</em> by Brent L. Smith

A Small Press Book We Love:
Pipe Dreams on Pico by Brent L. Smith

By James Folta | March 13, 2025

What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

Lisa Catherine Harper on the Painfully Enduring Lessons of a Celebrated 19th-Century American Writer

By Lisa Catherine Harper | March 13, 2025

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction

Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold on the Urgency Writing Truth to Power

By Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold | March 13, 2025

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction

Laila Lalami: "Our world... may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it’s the one we have—and the one we make."

By Laila Lalami | March 13, 2025

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By Book Marks | March 13, 2025

How Shirley Jackson Exposed the Darker, Uncanny Side of Everyday Life

By Ruth Franklin | March 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Mónica de la Torre Is Reading Now, and Next

By Diana Arterian | March 13, 2025

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 13, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>The Days of Abandonment</em> by Elena Ferrante

A Small Press Book We Love:
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

By Emily Firetog | March 12, 2025

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

Will Rees on the Shared Characteristics Between Health Anxiety and the Writer’s Calling

By Will Rees | March 12, 2025

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Karen Russell on What Natural Disasters Can Reveal About the Human Condition

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “The Antidote”

By Jane Ciabattari | March 12, 2025

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process

Catriona Silvey on Rewriting Her First Novel With Over a Decade’s Worth of Critical Distance and Life Experience

By Catriona Silvey | March 12, 2025

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore

Helen Nde Recommends Isidore Okpewho, Ruth Finnegan, Ibrahim Al-Koni, and More

By Helen Nde | March 12, 2025

Helen Garner on Henry Green's <em>Party Going</em>

Helen Garner on Henry Green's Party Going

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | March 12, 2025

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