• Craft and Criticism

    The South

    Untold Stories: A South Carolina Lowcountry Reading List

    By Preslaysa Williams  March 30, 2023
    The Hub

    Literary baby names ranked from least to most cringey.

    By Janet Manley  March 29, 2023
    Behind the Book Cover

    “Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

    By Jason Booher  March 29, 2023
    Children's Lit

    On the Role of Children’s Books Within the Realm of Social Evolution

    By Leonard S. Marcus  March 29, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Kelly Link Reads from Her New Short Story Collection White Cat, Black Dog

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  March 29, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Life in the Aftermath: Books That Explore What Happens After Things Go Wrong

    By Tara Conklin  March 29, 2023
    Thresholds

    Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft on the Double-Edged Sword of Being “the First”

    By Thresholds   March 29, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Divine Poetry: Katherine Rundell Shines a Light on John Donne

    By Malcolm Borthwick  March 29, 2023
    The Hub

    Did Truman Capote plagiarize Breakfast at Tiffany’s from Willa Cather?

    By Janet Manley  March 28, 2023
    Apocalypse

    A Novel is Like a Camp: What Fiction Can Teach Us About Surviving the Slow Apocalypse

    By Jess Row  March 28, 2023
    new books tuesday

    18 new books to check out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  March 28, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

    By Literary Hub  March 28, 2023
    Suicide

    Clancy Martin on the Contradictions of Living Through Suicidal Moments

    By Clancy Martin  March 28, 2023
    Nature Writing

    Why Learning About Other Animals Makes Us Better Writers

    By Gina Chung  March 28, 2023
    Otherppl

    Could You Forgive Someone for Murder? Alex Mar on the Court Case That Inspired Her Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 28, 2023
    Write-minded

    Madelaine Lucas on the Literature of Longing 

    By Write-minded   March 28, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Laura Spence-Ash on Crafting an Epic Family Saga

    By Jane Ciabattari  March 28, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    Ethan Chatagnier on Bending Genre and Communicating with Aliens

    By I'm a Writer But   March 28, 2023
    The Hub

    Authors of different genres react to the AI threat.

    By Janet Manley  March 27, 2023
    Children's Lit

    In Praise of Sophie Hatter, the Grumpy, Imperfect Childhood Heroine I Needed

    By Joelle Kidd  March 27, 2023
    literary criticism

    Why the Bible is the Literary Book of Books

    By David Keenan  March 27, 2023
    Diaries

    Intimacy Exposed: A Reading List of Diary-Themed Fiction

    By Shaun Bythell  March 27, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene with Martin Shaw

    By Emergence Magazine  March 27, 2023
    First Draft

    Robert Lopez on Life Before We’re Born and Why Memory is Like a Failed Method Actor

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 27, 2023
    Craft of Writing

    My Book Started Before I Knew What It Would Be

    By Liam Callanan  March 27, 2023
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