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Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 11, 2025

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Why the Sole Aim For Any Novelist Should Probably Be a Posthumous House Museum

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Adrian McKinty Reads Pynchon’s Hardboiled Trilogy

By Adrian McKinty | December 10, 2025

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

Sheldon Costa on Trash Bashing, Working With His Hands, and Extricating His Writing from His Self-Worth

By Sheldon Costa | December 10, 2025

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

On the Haunted History of Apartheid in South Africa

Nadia Davids Spends Time in the Company of Ghosts

By Nadia Davids | December 10, 2025

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction

“I did my best to present Tony in a way that would make readers fall in love with him just as I had, and forgive his mistakes, just as I did.”

By Marion Winik | December 10, 2025

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On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

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Why Joan Didion Hated the Police

By Scott Saul | December 9, 2025

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

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

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The Far Side of Disaster: <br>On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel <em>To the Lighthouse</em>

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Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

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By Brendan Mac Evilly | December 8, 2025

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

A Young Woman and Her Literary Dreams, Caught in the Churn of German History

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By Catharina Coenen | December 8, 2025

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

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“Le Chien,” a Poem by Billy Collins

“Le Chien,” a Poem by Billy Collins

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