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Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

“Bringing your full self to your work, wielding all of your tools with abandon, is fun at a whole other level.”

By Jane Roper | April 7, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Curtis Sittenfeld, Isabella Hammad, Nicole Chung, Susanna Hoffs, and More

By Dan Sheehan | April 7, 2023

Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

Christiana Spens Recommends Patti Smith, Lily Dunn, and More

By Christiana Spens | April 7, 2023

A Passion for Living in the Present: <br>A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Passion for Living in the Present:
A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Piece of Global Literary History Available in English For the First Time

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | April 6, 2023

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 6, 2023

Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

Jack Zipes Recommends Édouard Labouylaye, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and More

By Jack Zipes | April 6, 2023

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  • The Simp: A Novel Without a Hero

Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

By Nandini Das | April 6, 2023

Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 6, 2023

Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

By Mary Jo McConahay | April 6, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nicole Chung is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Lydia Davis, Thao Thai, Rebecca Makkai and more

By Diana Arterian | April 6, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“A powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions that are rarely captured in print.”

By Book Marks | April 6, 2023

Diana Janney on the Philosophical Foundations of Her Fiction

Diana Janney on the Philosophical Foundations of Her Fiction

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 6, 2023

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Lawrence Venuti Considers the “New Visibility” of Literary Translation

By Lawrence Venuti | April 5, 2023

Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

Nicole Chung on Writing Through Grief and How to Begin Again

Hannah Bae Talks to the Author of A Living Remedy

By Hannah Bae | April 5, 2023

Procrastination or Research? Curtis Sittenfeld Clicks Over to Celebrity Gossip While Writing

Procrastination or Research? Curtis Sittenfeld Clicks Over to Celebrity Gossip While Writing

The Author of Romantic Comedy Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | April 5, 2023

Intrigue, Not Critique: On the “Portrait of the Artist” Feedback Model

Intrigue, Not Critique: On the “Portrait of the Artist” Feedback Model

Florence Gonsalves and Matthew Vollmer Discuss Democratizing the Writing Workshop

By Florence Gonsalves and Matthew Vollmer | April 5, 2023

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