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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidibits)

    The Author of “Audition” Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

     
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    Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

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    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

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    Inspiration

    “The White Whales of the Sky.” On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions Past and Present

    By Kate Folk  April 8, 2025
    In Conversation

    Kate Folk on Writing a Contemporary Tribute to an American Classic

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 8, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Zakiya Dalilah Harris on Satire and Sensitivity

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    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 2025
    Book Design

    Secrets of the Designer: The Nuance of Creating the Perfect Book Cover

    By Alia Hanna Habib  April 7, 2025
    Reading Lists

    Villains, Vampires, Spies: The Best Remixes of The Great Gatsby

    By Camille Aubray  April 7, 2025
    Motherhood

    A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

    L. Sasha Gora on “The Abandoners,” “The Price of Salt,” and the Stray Mothers of Literature

    By L. Sasha Gora  April 8, 2025
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    Inventing Truths: What Toni Morrison’s Fiction Taught Me About Writing Memoir

    By Bridgett M. Davis  April 7, 2025
    Imagination

    Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

    By Lynn Steger Strong  April 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Colum McCann on the Arts in Question

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 7, 2025
    Write-minded

    Write-Minded on Miranda July’s All Fours

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

    By Write-minded   April 7, 2025
    Authoritarianism

    The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul

    By Shana L. Redmond  April 4, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Maggie Smith on Embracing Imperfection, in Life and Art

    By Maggie Smith  April 4, 2025
    Comfort Food

    Memory, Care, Protection: Crystal Hana Kim on the Many Uses of Food

    By Crystal Hana Kim  April 4, 2025
    Poetry

    “The Bible as Literature,” a Poem by Amy Gerstler

    From the Collection “Is This My Final Form?”

    By Amy Gerstler  April 4, 2025
    Remembrances

    Exploring the Traumas of the Armenian Genocide

    By Nancy Kricorian  April 4, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: April Showers Bring New Releases, Poetry, and The Brothers Karamazov

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   April 4, 2025
    Craft and Criticism

    In Which a Couple of Actual Literary Assholes Make an Appearance

    By Kristen Arnett  April 3, 2025
    The Natural World

    The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs

    Thor Hanson on the Joys of Slowing Down and Discovering the Unknown In the Familiar

    By Thor Hanson  April 3, 2025
    Ancient History

    What We Can Learn About Death and the Afterlife From the Earliest Humans

    By Robert Garland  April 3, 2025
    Aging

    Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

    By Douglas J. Penick  April 3, 2025
    On Grief

    “The Past is Another Country.” On Fate, Grief and the Slow Disintegration of a Family in Zimbabwe

    By Peter Godwin  April 7, 2025
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