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    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    Romance Novels

    Genre Alert: Women Who Are Sexually Attracted to Airplanes… And Other Non-Sentient Objects

    By Celia Mattison  April 14, 2025
    Empowerment

    Beyond Institutions: Why Black Empowerment Must Bridge the Opportunity Gap

    By Andre M. Perry  April 14, 2025
    The Lives of Women

    Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

    By Claire Hoffman  April 14, 2025
    Poetry

    “The Quiet,” a Poem by Aharon Shabtai

    By Aharon Shabtai  April 14, 2025
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    By Tiana Clark  April 14, 2025
    First Draft

    Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 14, 2025
    Write-minded

    Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

    By Memoir Nation   April 14, 2025
    Film

    Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age

    By Olivia Rutigliano  April 11, 2025
    Features

    Watch the Book Trailer for Sophy Roberts’s Bestselling A Training School for Elephants.

    By Literary Hub  April 11, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Traci Thomas of The Stacks, Jonny Diamond on Lit Hub’s 10th Birthday, and More Poetry!

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   April 11, 2025
    Fan Culture

    How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Continues to Inspire Generations of Fans

    By Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs  April 11, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

    By Natalia Theodoridou  April 11, 2025
    The Open Road

    How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

    By Andy Anderegg  April 11, 2025
    On Translation

    The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

    By Moeen Farrokhi  April 11, 2025
    American History

    Abolitionists and Confederates: On the Complex History of American Jews During the Civil War

    By Richard Kreitner  April 11, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2025
    Writing the Book

    Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

    By Daryl Gregory  April 11, 2025
    Beyond the Page

    Judy Blume on Radical Honesty

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  April 11, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Maryrose Wood on the Relationship Between Author and Narrator

    By Behind the Mic   April 11, 2025
    Publishing

    What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

    By Maris Kreizman  April 10, 2025
    Pollution

    Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

    By Ariel Courage  April 10, 2025
    On The Self

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 10, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 10, 2025
    Free Speech

    Dinaw Mengestu on PEN America’s Committment to Freedom of Expression

    By Dinaw Mengestu  April 10, 2025
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