A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s <em>Freedom Song</em>

A Quiet Roar: Wendy Doniger on Amit Chaudhuri’s Freedom Song

“True freedom may lie in the art that can express, deeply embedded in ordinary family life, the political attachments that shape and misshape that life.”

By Wendy Doniger | May 15, 2024

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

The Cosmic Library on Short Story Institutions

This Week on The Cosmic Library with Adam Colman

By The Cosmic Library | May 15, 2024

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Collision of the Internet, Race, and Gender

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | May 14, 2024

Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s <em>Train Dreams</em>

Amitava Kumar on Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | May 14, 2024

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

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

Featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Noé Álvarez, Anna Dorn and More.

By Teddy Wayne | May 14, 2024

Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

Who Will Finish Your Manuscript When You Die?

Tessa Fontaine on the Ways Writers Can Prepare For the Worst Case Scenario

By Tessa Fontaine | May 14, 2024

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Claire Messud on Writing the Past That Lives Within Us

By Jane Ciabattari | May 14, 2024

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

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Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO's <em>Girls.</em>

Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO's Girls.

By Brittany Allen | May 13, 2024

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 13, 2024

Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 13, 2024

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:<br> “Ah, Fuck Em.”

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
“Ah, Fuck Em.”

From Her One Story Literary Debutante Ball Address

By Alice McDermott | May 10, 2024

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

Monika Zgustova Explores Childhood Sexual Abuse and Its Aftermath, On and Off the Page

By Monika Zgustova | May 10, 2024

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