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Benjamin Wood on the Creative Life Force

Benjamin Wood on the Creative Life Force

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 12, 2026

Jose Antonio Vargas on Life in a Country That Says You Don’t Belong

Jose Antonio Vargas on Life in a Country That Says You Don’t Belong

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | January 12, 2026

Five Steps to a Better Writing Process

Five Steps to a Better Writing Process

David Arndt Lays Out Some Action Items

By David Arndt | January 9, 2026

What Happens if Russia Wins the War it Started in Ukraine?

What Happens if Russia Wins the War it Started in Ukraine?

Carlo Masala Explores the Worst-Case Scenarios

By Carlo Masala | January 9, 2026

Teenagers at War: On Fighting the British in New York, 1776

Teenagers at War: On Fighting the British in New York, 1776

Jack Kelly Chronicles the Experience of a Revolutionary Soldier During America’s Fight For Independence

By Jack Kelly | January 9, 2026

For an Echodeviant Poet, Mishearing is a Method

For an Echodeviant Poet, Mishearing is a Method

Noa Micaela Fields on the Changeable Power of Language

By Noa Micaela Fields | January 9, 2026

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Inside the Inferno: Revisiting Southern California’s First Wildfire of 2025

By Jacob Soboroff | January 8, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | January 8, 2026

The Ups and Downs of “Having it All”—and Why It’s Okay to Give it Up

By Amil Niazi | January 8, 2026

How Los Angeles and Chicago Came to Appreciate Their Coyote Neighbors

How Los Angeles and Chicago Came to Appreciate Their Coyote Neighbors

Dan Flores Considers Our Changing Attitudes Towards Urban Wildlife

By Dan Flores | January 8, 2026

Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 8, 2026

Alcohol: The Oldest (and Most Popular) Drug in the World

Alcohol: The Oldest (and Most Popular) Drug in the World

Dr. Charles Knowles Explores the Ancient History and Evolutionary Science Behind Intoxication

By Charles Knowles | January 7, 2026

How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

How Humor Can Be an Effective Tool For Social Change

Chris Duffy on Relieving the Horrors Through Laughter

By Chris Duffy | January 7, 2026

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and... Ghostwriter?

Virginia Faulkner: Writer, Editor and... Ghostwriter?

Brad Bigelow on the Collaborative Process That Produced Polly Adler’s A House is Not a Home

By Brad Bigelow | January 7, 2026

Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand

Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand

The Author of A New World Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2026

Jonathan Lethem and Ben Markovits on a Trans-Atlantic Literary Life (and More)

Jonathan Lethem and Ben Markovits on a Trans-Atlantic Literary Life (and More)

A Conversation With the Author of the Booker-Nominated The Rest of Our Lives

By Jonathan Lethem | January 6, 2026

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