• Features

    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 7, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Secret Trysts and Lost Weekends at the Chateau Marmont

    By Zan Romanoff  May 7, 2019
    On Poetry

    On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

    By Patricia M. Dwyer  May 7, 2019
    Appreciations

    Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

    By Gerður Kristný  May 7, 2019
    A Frenchman in America

    On the Beauty of Defeat and the Future of Europe

    By Aysegul Sert  May 7, 2019
    Fathers and Sons

    Birthing Calfs, Writing Novels: This is My Job Now

    By John Connell  May 7, 2019
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Binnie Kirshenbaum, Ryan Chapman, and More Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Teddy Wayne  May 7, 2019
    Literary History

    On Founding One of Literature’s Most Beautiful Collections

    By Amos Reichman  May 7, 2019
    Royal Baby

    Royal Baby! (Why Is America So Obsessed with
    the British Monarchy?)

    By Robert Morrison  May 6, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 6, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 6, 2019
    Travel Writing

    Revolutionary Travel Writer
    Georg Forster’s Passionate Beginnings

    By Jürgen Goldstein  May 6, 2019
    Democracy

    Jon Meacham on E.B. White and American Democracy

    By Jon Meacham  May 6, 2019
    Author Photos

    Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date

    By Nina Subin  May 6, 2019
    Writing Prompts

    The New Toolkit For Opening Up Your Memoir Writing

    By Eve Makis  May 6, 2019
    Behind the Book Cover

    How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

    By Nicole Caputo  May 6, 2019
    Interview with a Bookstore

    Interview with a Bookstore:
    The Silver Unicorn

    By Interview with a Bookstore  May 6, 2019
    Modern Art

    Here’s the World’s First Public Gallery of Modern Art

    By Morna O'Neill  May 6, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Weekly: April 29 – May 3, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 4, 2019
    Features

    Lit Hub Daily: May 3, 2019

    By Lit Hub Daily  May 3, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

    By Tobias Carroll  May 3, 2019
    Fathers and Daughters

    Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

    By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
    Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves

    Meg Elison Imagines a World with No Need for Men

    By New Books Network  May 3, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    On Not Writing About My Father, an Actual Mad Scientist

    By Erika Swyler  May 3, 2019
    Annotations

    Finnegan’s Wake at 80:
    In Defense of the Difficult

    By Susie Lopez  May 3, 2019
    Features

    5 Books You May Have
    Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 3, 2019
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