Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing

Maggie Shipstead on Dealing with Mistakes in Writing

“Mistakes might be inevitable, but I think they are worth mitigating.”

By Maggie Shipstead | May 27, 2022

“Deciding to Put My Writing Out There Has Changed My Life.” A Conversation with Jillian Luft

“Deciding to Put My Writing Out There Has Changed My Life.” A Conversation with Jillian Luft

In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | May 27, 2022

How Did a Fictionalized Leonard Cohen End Up in My Novel?

How Did a Fictionalized Leonard Cohen End Up in My Novel?

Francesca Giacco on Taking From Fact to Add to Fiction

By Francesca Giacco | May 27, 2022

The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels' Debut Novel

The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels' Debut Novel

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 27, 2022

Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | May 27, 2022

Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers

Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers

Catie Marron on Learning to Understand Soil

By Catie Marron | May 26, 2022

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Why Elif Batuman’s Been Thinking About “Compulsive Heterosexuality”

By The Maris Review | May 26, 2022

In Defense of the Literary Happily Ever After

By Sarah McCoy | May 26, 2022

A Poetics of Risk: On Publishing My Debut Novel in My 60s

By Lisa Russ Spaar | May 26, 2022

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

Sarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form

A Conversation with the Author of Love Poems in Quarantine

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

Jon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief Glimmer of Positivity)

The Author of Serious Face Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2022

Andrea Marcolongo on How Running Fuels Her Creative Process

Andrea Marcolongo on How Running Fuels Her Creative Process

“I go out to run so that I can write, and I write so that I can run.”

By Andrea Marcolongo | May 25, 2022

Kathryn Miles on the Emotional Toll of Investigating Tragedies—and Why She Carries on

Kathryn Miles on the Emotional Toll of Investigating Tragedies—and Why She Carries on

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 25, 2022

Elif Batuman on the Need For Novels (And When Male Writers Describe Oral Sex)

Elif Batuman on the Need For Novels (And When Male Writers Describe Oral Sex)

Kristin Iversen Talks to the author of Either/Or

By Kristin Iversen | May 24, 2022

Looking for Answers After the Murder of a Dear Friend and Little Brother

Looking for Answers After the Murder of a Dear Friend and Little Brother

Ben Westhoff on Frustration, Grief, and Questions in the Wake of a Young Black Man's Death

By Ben Westhoff | May 24, 2022

Jen Silverman on Re-reading, Making a Tarot Deck, and Other Kinds of Escape

Jen Silverman on Re-reading, Making a Tarot Deck, and Other Kinds of Escape

“I can feel in my bones when a book and a person would match.”

By Literary Hub | May 24, 2022

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