• Memoir

    First Draft

    Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2023
    Grief

    How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

    By Tracey Rose Peyton  January 3, 2023
    Ukraine

    “My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

    By José Vergara  January 3, 2023
    Love Stories

    The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

    By Nickolas Butler  December 23, 2022
    Language

    Jonathan Lear on Learning from Linguistic Example on the Playground

    By Jonathan Lear  December 23, 2022
    Philosophy

    “I Didn’t Ask to Be Here.” Or: How Do We Find Value in This Life?

    By Nick Riggle  December 16, 2022
    Best of 2022

    The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2022

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2022
    American History

    How Community Organizers and Business Leaders Came Together to Improve Bedford-Stuyvesant

    By Franklin A. Thomas  December 15, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

    By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  December 14, 2022
    Terrorism

    Anatomy of a Kidnapping: An Inside Look at the First Few Days in Terrorist Captivity

    By Shahbaz Taseer  December 13, 2022
    Memoir

    Between Shame, Desire, and Destiny: On the Genius of Annie Ernaux

    By Ken Chen  December 12, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the Pleasures of Restoring Fountain Pens, and Finding Respite from Writerly Abstraction

    By Pitchaya Sudbanthad  December 12, 2022
    Book Tours

    When Your Book Tour is Interrupted by a Near-Death Experience

    By M Dressler  December 12, 2022
    Illness

    Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

    By Barrett Rollins  December 9, 2022
    Antisemitism

    Shame, Silence, and Family Secrets: How Enduring Antisemitism Created False Identities

    By Margaret K. Nelson  December 9, 2022
    The Hub

    Turns out the Russian soldier who fled to France and sold his war memoir might be full of shit.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 8, 2022
    Children's Lit

    Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 7, 2022
    Booksellers

    Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

    By Shaun Bythell  December 7, 2022
    Queerness

    Cherríe Moraga on Writing About Queer Motherhood

    By Cherríe Moraga  December 7, 2022
    What to Watch

    In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

    By Julia Sirmons  December 6, 2022
    Video Games

    Cliff Bleszinski on Finding Lifelong Happiness and Eventual Success in Video Games

    By Cliff Bleszinski  December 6, 2022
    Narrative

    Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  December 6, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “There’s No Story to Tell About Swimming.” Madeleine Watts on How to Quiet the Mind

    By Madeleine Watts  December 5, 2022
    Motherhood

    Mother or Weapon: Retired Cage Fighter Jenny Liou on Navigating the Body After Birth

    By Jenny Liou  December 5, 2022
    On Grief

    Of Grief and Book Tours

    By Silas House  December 2, 2022
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