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Craft and Advice
Finding the Truth In the Imaginary: On “Accurately” Writing About Time Travel
Aja Gabel Offers Some Tips For Crafting Scientifically and Emotionally Sound Speculative Fiction
By
Aja Gabel
| November 4, 2025
Jodi-Ann Burey on Speechwriting, Authenticity, and Adapting Her TED Talk into a Book
Claire Dederer Talks to the Author of
Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work
By
Claire Dederer
| November 4, 2025
The Epiphany in the Ordinary: A Conversation With Teju Cole
Jennifer Acker Talks to Cole About Genre-Bending, How Artists Bear Witness to Tragedy, and More
By
Jennifer Acker
| November 3, 2025
E. Jean Carroll on Writing on Trial
From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| November 3, 2025
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The Lit Hub Podcast
| October 31, 2025
Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
“Imperfect and thorny, but just strange enough to kindle fear.”
By
Nick Ripatrazone
| October 31, 2025
Best Reviewed
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Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected
By
Catherine Newman
| October 31, 2025
Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost
By
Daria Lavelle
| October 31, 2025
Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction
By
Kristen Arnett
| October 30, 2025
Porn, But Also Literature: On John Cleland’s
Fanny Hill
A Conversation Between Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya
By
Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya
| October 30, 2025
Why I Give My Books Away For Free
Shane Hinton Won’t Let Money Stand in the Way of a Potential Reader
By
Shane Hinton
| October 29, 2025
Crafting a Documentary Poetics of Resistance in the Shadow of State Violence
“In situations in which the story of people is being smothered by institutions of power, adversarial documents can provide an opening.”
By
Teresa Dzieglewicz
| October 29, 2025
Susan Straight on Chronicling the Impact of COVID-19 in Fiction
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of
Sacrament
By
Jane Ciabattari
| October 28, 2025
Writers Beware: On the Dangerous Fine Print of Creative Contract Law
“If Kafka were alive today, he wouldn’t be unpublished—he’d be under NDA.”
By
Aron Solomon
| October 27, 2025
Jaquira Díaz on Trust
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the
First Draft Podcast
By
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
| October 27, 2025
Roy Wood Jr. on the Legacies We Inherit and Pass On
From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner
By
Memoir Nation
| October 27, 2025
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