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    Poetry

    “In the Countryside.” A Poem-Comic by Lauren Haldeman and Jesse Nathan

    By Jesse Nathan and Lauren Haldeman  January 11, 2024
    Traveling

    Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform Novel Writing

    By İnci Atrek  January 11, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 11, 2024
    Just the Right Book

    David Brooks on Human Connection

    By Just the Right Book   January 11, 2024
    Family History

    Thicker Than Water: A Brief History of Family Violence in Appalachian Kentucky

    By Angie Romines  January 10, 2024
    Hotels

    The Shadow Self of Domestic Stories: A Reading List of Novels Set in Hotels

    By Maria Hummel  January 10, 2024
    Autofiction

    Autofiction Without the Auto: On Javier Cercas’ Outward-Looking, Self-Centered Fiction

    By Bécquer Seguín  January 10, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

    By Kayla Min Andrews  January 10, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Michelle Williams on Making Things that Feel Definite

    By Talk Easy  January 10, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Jonathan van Belle on What Work Meant to Thoreau

    By History of Literature  January 10, 2024
    Libraries

    A Sanctuary Made of Books: Stephen McCauley’s Love Letter to Writing in Libraries

    By Stephen McCauley  January 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 9, 2024
    In Conversation

    Karl Marlantes on Chronicling the Early Cold War Years

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 9, 2024
    Art History

    Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

    By Mark Polizzotti  January 9, 2024
    First Draft

    Antoine Wilson on the Humble Art of Writing

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 8, 2024
    Motherhood

    Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

    By Marie Doezema  January 8, 2024
    Gossip

    Epistolary Gossip: On the History and Morality of the “Poison Pen” Letter

    By Emily Cockayne  January 8, 2024
    Poets in Conversation

    Wendy Call and Shook on the Power of Titles, Decolonization, and Translating Poems in Iterations

    By Literary Hub  January 8, 2024
    Write-minded

    Maja Thomas on the Future of the Book

    By Write-minded   January 8, 2024
    Booksellers

    What Booksellers Can Teach Us About Reading, Writing and Publishing

    By Will Mountain Cox  January 5, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  January 5, 2024
    Artists

    How the Fire That Destroyed My Paintings Turned Me Into a Writer

    By Jonathan Santlofer  January 5, 2024
    Painting

    On the Serious Business of 19th-Century Fairy Paintings

    By Jennifer Higgie  January 5, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Erika Howsare on Finding Inspiration in Headlines

    By Erika Howsare  January 5, 2024
    Music as Literature

    Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews

    By Griffin Ondaatje  January 4, 2024
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