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In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

In Praise of Destruction: How Embracing Elimination Can Make Our Writing Better

Stephanie Bishop on Losing a Manuscript, Starting Over, and Learning to Swing a Literary Wrecking Ball at Her Work

By Stephanie Bishop | July 18, 2023

Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

Cristina Garcia on Chronicling Cuba’s Complex History Through Fiction

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Vanishing Maps

By Jane Ciabattari | July 18, 2023

Talking to the Mafia About Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and Jimmy Hoffa

Talking to the Mafia About Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, and Jimmy Hoffa

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 18, 2023

Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America

Enabling a Conversation Between Rural and Urban America

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 18, 2023

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

Let the Kids Get Weird: The Adult Problem With Children’s Books

On Jon Klassen, Ruth Krauss, and the Grown-Up Weight of Nostalgia

By Janet Manley | July 17, 2023

Chuck Tingle on How Writing is Like Driving, Being an Autistic Artist, and More

Chuck Tingle on How Writing is Like Driving, Being an Autistic Artist, and More

The Author of Camp Damascus Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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The Old Becomes the New: Lawrence Sutin on the Art of Transforming Books

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All Publicity is Good Publicity: How Simple Familiarity Influences Our Decisions

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From One Into Many: On the Science of Starling Murmurations

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What America’s Current Drug Binge Reveals About the Post Neoliberal 2020s

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Kellye Garrett Talks About the Idea of Community as Muse

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Shin Yu Pai on Ten Thousand Things and the Asian-American Experience

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