• Craft and Advice

    Literary Criticism

    Laura Rossi and Jo Reed on Recent Earphones Award Winners

    worth your listening time

     
    By Behind the Mic   May 30, 2025
    Anniversary

    Rebecca Solnit on Her Most Beloved Objects

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 29, 2025
    On Poetry

    Death, Desire, and the Poetics of the Automobile

    By Rosie Stockton  May 29, 2025
    Legacies

    Finding Your Way Into Writing Fiction as J.R.R. Tolkien’s Grandson

    By Simon Tolkien  May 29, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    My Workshop Friend Stole the Plot for a Story I Never Got Around to Writing: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  May 29, 2025
    Unlikable Women

    The Likability Trap: Why We Need More “Nasty” Female Protagonists

    By Laura Leffler  May 29, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Writing Trauma

    On Morals, Ethics, and Writing a Novel Inspired by a Story Ripped-From-the-Headlines

    By Darrow Farr  May 29, 2025
    Wine

    Eight Books that Feature Wine in All Its Facets (and Flavor Notes)

    By Rochelle Dowden-Lord  May 28, 2025
    Character Studies

    How Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” Imbues Even Its Ugliest Characters with Nuance

    By Jessica Stanley  May 28, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Anna Mitchael on the Lessons of Ghostwriting

    "This learning isn’t just for those who quietly write stories for others."

    By Anna Mitchael  May 30, 2025
    Anniversaries

    20 Years of Getting Lost: Rebecca Solnit on the Creative Process of Finding Yourself

    By Rebecca Solnit  May 27, 2025
    Characters

    Crafting from of a Creator’s Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

    By Nicola Dinan  May 27, 2025
    In Conversation

    Spring Ulmer on Political Poetry, Personification, and Translating as Gardening

    By Literary Hub  May 27, 2025
    Write-minded

    Vauhini Vara on Where Self Meets Technology

    From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Memoir Nation   May 26, 2025
    Narrative

    What You See Is What You Get: The Optical Illusions That Shape Fiction—and Ourselves

    By T.J. Martinson  May 23, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Richard Russo on Words and Their Arrangement

    By Richard Russo  May 23, 2025
    The Writing Life

    None of Your Business: Why Writers Shouldn’t Feel Obligated to Share Too Much

    By Debbie Urbanski  May 22, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Alison Bechdel Is Reading Now, and Next

    Featuring Sarah Schulman, Urvashi Vaid, Joan Didion, and Others

    By Diana Arterian  May 22, 2025
    Science fiction

    Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

    By Fred Lunzer  May 21, 2025
    Language

    Donal Ryan on Embracing the Evolution of Language While Preserving Its Essence

    By Donal Ryan  May 21, 2025
    Writing Place

    The Fact and the Fiction of Philly: Writing Place From Research, Memory and Intuition

    By Naomi Xu Elegant  May 21, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Richard Bausch Thinks You Can Never Permanently Ruin a Piece of Writing (And Other Tidbits)

    The Author of "The Fate of Others" Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

    By Literary Hub  May 20, 2025
    Food Writing

    Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature

    By Adam Roberts  May 20, 2025
    craft advice

    Eating Your Words: In Defense of Writing Without a Recipe

    By Daria Lavelle  May 20, 2025
    Storms

    Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms

    By Catherine Bush  May 28, 2025
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