• Memoir

    Travel Writing

    Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

    By Pico Iyer  January 11, 2023
    Twitterverse

    Keri Blakinger on What It’s Like to Interview Someone on Death Row

    By Twitterverse   January 10, 2023
    Romance

    Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

    By Katie Fustich  January 9, 2023
    Family History

    Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

    By Nicky Beer  January 9, 2023
    Diaries

    The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

    By Rachel Schwartzmann  January 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

    By Keen On  January 6, 2023
    Criticism

    On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

    By Will Cathcart  January 5, 2023
    Fascism

    How Mussolini’s Legacy Lives on in Both the Public and Private Spheres

    By Andrea Bajani  January 5, 2023
    On Translation

    On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

    By Yardenne Greenspan  January 4, 2023
    Home

    Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

    By Ken Babstock  January 4, 2023
    On Craft

    On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

    By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
    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
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