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    Family Stories

    When to Write It, When to Walk Away: On the Problem of Too Much Metaphor

    By Jessica Francis Kane  May 14, 2019
    Book Dedications

    Behind the Book Dedications: “A Private Moment in a Public Object”

    By Julia Carpenter  May 14, 2019
    WWII

    Uncovering the Secret History of a WWII-Era Brooklyn Spy

    By David A. Taylor  May 14, 2019
    Travel Writing

    Pico Iyer on Decolonizing
    Travel Writing

    By The Literary Life  May 14, 2019
    Healing

    Eve Ensler: Imagining an Apology From
    My Abusive Father

    By V (formerly Eve Ensler)  May 14, 2019
    Talking shop

    Hugh Ryan on the Long, Meandering Path to
    Finishing His Book

    By Literary Disco  May 14, 2019
    Erin Somers

    Erin Somers on Rich Kids, Melancholy, Slapstick, and More

    By So Many Damn Books  May 14, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 13, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 13, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Do… Nothing? Maddie Crum on Myths of Self, Help,
    and Self-Help

    By Maddie Crum  May 13, 2019
    Rediscoveries

    Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

    By Joanna Scutts  May 13, 2019
    Rock N Roll

    Why Is It So Hard to Write About Music in Fiction?

    By Anne Valente  May 13, 2019
    Poem

    ‘Crossing,’ A Poem by Carl Phillips

    By Carl Phillips  May 13, 2019
    Animals

    How Do the Police in New York City Deal With Animal Cruelty?

    By Aysha Akhtar, M.D.  May 13, 2019
    The Writing Life

    5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Jackson, Mississippi

    By Tom Head  May 13, 2019
    American History

    Climbing Mountains for the Right to Vote

    By Susan Ware  May 13, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    A Brief History of Queer Language Before Queer Identity

    By Jeanna Kadlec  May 13, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: May 6 – 10, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 11, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Tobias Wolff on the Iconic Memoir He Never
    Intended to Write

    By Tobias Wolff  May 10, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 10, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    Finding My Mother in the Pages of Her Favorite Cookbook

    By John McMurtrie  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day Poetry

    ‘Original Fire,’
    A Poem by Louise Erdrich

    By Louise Erdrich  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    What Do Mothers and Children Owe Each Other?

    By Literary Hub  May 10, 2019
    Mother's Day

    When Your Daughter Refuses to Be in Your Essay

    By Beth Alvarado  May 10, 2019
    Craft and Criticism

    On the Writing Life and Safeguarding Privacy

    By Esi Edugyan  May 10, 2019
    Climate Change

    Nathaniel Rich on the Climate Change Science We’ve Known and Ignored

    By The Literary Life  May 10, 2019
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