Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • I’m a Writer But
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Talk Easy
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • I’m a Writer But
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Talk Easy
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
What Makes Something Funny?

What Makes Something Funny?

Stuart Evers on Why Jokes Make the Best Weapons

By Stuart Evers | February 12, 2016

A Bikini, a Toothbrush, and 44 Issues of <em>The New Yorker</em>

A Bikini, a Toothbrush, and 44 Issues of The New Yorker

In Which Summer Brennan Attempts to Catch Up On a Year's Reading

By Summer Brennan | February 11, 2016

How to Write What You <em>Don't</em> Know

How to Write What You Don't Know

Amy Gustine on the Deep Research Behind Good Fiction

By Amy Gustine | February 10, 2016

When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

When a Self-Declared Genius Asks You to Read His Masterpiece

In a Letter to a Total Stranger, Why I Read What I Read

By Jeff Sharlet | February 4, 2016

Writing, Traveling, and the Creative Act

Writing, Traveling, and the Creative Act

Suzanne Joinson: Dispatches from Israel, Azerbaijan, and a Deer Park in Beijing

By Suzanne Joinson | February 4, 2016

The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

The Rise of the Literary Binge-Read

How 21st-Century Culture and Technology Changed Highbrow Fiction

By Michael Bourne | February 3, 2016

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Heart the Lover
  • What a Time to Be Alive
  • Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
  • Pick a Color
  • The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
  • Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

By Taylor Brown | February 3, 2016

Our Fairy Tales Ourselves: Storytelling From East to West

By Marie Mutsuki Mockett | January 27, 2016

Surrealism and Decomposition. Or How I Wrote My Novel.

By Elizabeth McKenzie | January 26, 2016

Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog!

Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog!

Michele Filgate Talks to Edan Lepucki About West Coast Writing Community

By Michele Filgate | January 22, 2016

The Importance of Reading While Pregnant

The Importance of Reading While Pregnant

On Our Love-Hate Relationship with Parenting Books

By Yardenne Greenspan | January 21, 2016

Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event

Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event

Or, Some Highly Subjective Advice on What Makes for a Good Panel

By Tim Johnson | January 15, 2016

My First Writing Job: Copyboy at<em> the Daily News</em>

My First Writing Job: Copyboy at the Daily News

Warren Adler Remembers the Heyday of Newsprint in America

By Warren Adler | January 15, 2016

On Being a Writer Who Can't Read

On Being a Writer Who Can't Read

"I'm Going to Pretend to Read to You From My Novel."

By James Tate Hill | January 12, 2016

How to Live Cheaply and Finish Your Novel

How to Live Cheaply and Finish Your Novel

Sunil Yapa's Three Rules for the Writing Life

By Sunil Yapa | January 12, 2016

Lit Scene: A Night Out With Irish Women Writers

Lit Scene: A Night Out With Irish Women Writers

Nollaig na mBan ("Women's Christmas") Finds a New Tradition in Dublin

By Sarah Davis-Goff | January 11, 2016

« First‹ Previous246247248249250251252253254Next ›Last »
Page 250 of 255
    • Hannah Beer On The Costs and Consequences of Celebrity CultureOctober 14, 2025 by Hannah Beer
    • Five Horror Films Set in HospitalsOctober 14, 2025 by Caitlin Starling
    • Your guide to transportation horror-cideOctober 10, 2025 by John Hornor Jacobs
    • Heart the Lover
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member