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What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

Alexa T. Dodd on a Book Deal That Seemed Too Good to Be True

By Alexa T. Dodd | August 22, 2022

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

“The looking is the creeper behavior, but the processing of those digital finds can become the nonfiction writer’s justification.”

By Kristine Langley Mahler | August 22, 2022

Jamil Jan Kochai on Writing About Violence

Jamil Jan Kochai on Writing About Violence

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 22, 2022

Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

“Politics is how we fight it out on the ground.”

By Mary Gaitskill | August 19, 2022

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

A Reading List for Alleviating Panic in the Face of Secondary Trauma

By Beth Macy | August 19, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

Part Three in the “13 Ways of Looking” Series

By Maud Newton | August 18, 2022

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Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 18, 2022

On Writing About Childhood, That Most Precious, Precarious Time

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Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

By Sidik Fofana | August 17, 2022

The Joys of Influence: In Praise of Intertextuality

The Joys of Influence: In Praise of Intertextuality

Dur e Aziz Amna on the Work That Laid the Foundation for Her Debut Novel

By Dur e Aziz Amna | August 17, 2022

Incriminating Texts and Embarrassing Photos: What Nada Alic Needed to Write Her Debut Story Collection

Incriminating Texts and Embarrassing Photos: What Nada Alic Needed to Write Her Debut Story Collection

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 17, 2022

Sidik Fofana on Crafting Distinct and Unforgettable Literary Voices

Sidik Fofana on Crafting Distinct and Unforgettable Literary Voices

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Stories from Tenants Downstairs

By Jane Ciabattari | August 16, 2022

Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion

Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion

The Author of Touch Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | August 16, 2022

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

D.S. Waldman Considers the Unbridgeable Gap Between Poetry and Any Single Poem

By D.S. Waldman | August 15, 2022

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

Lucy Sante on Writing with the Back Brain

At the "Juncture Between Knowing and not Knowing"

By Lucy Sante | August 12, 2022

Writers and Liars: On Fact, Fiction, and Truth

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