• Craft and Advice

    Insomnia

    Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

    By Rebecca Clarren  October 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hua Hsu on Finding the Future in the Past

    By Talk Easy  October 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Newly minted Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse on the best writing advice he’s ever received.

    By Emily Temple  October 10, 2023
    In Conversation

    Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

    By Laura van den Berg  October 10, 2023
    Language

    No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English

    By Hana Videen  October 10, 2023
    Write-minded

    Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché on the Art of Co-Authoring

    By Write-minded   October 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Isle McElroy on How It Might Feel to Live in the Wrong Body

    By Keen On  October 10, 2023
    Youth

    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

    By Hilary Leichter  October 6, 2023
    Loneliness

    Understanding Zora Neale Hurston’s Loneliness

    By Richard Deming  October 5, 2023
    Craft

    Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

    By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
    On Memoir

    The Catharsis of Writing About Sex in Memoir

    By Minda Honey  October 5, 2023
    The Maris Review

    C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

    By The Maris Review  October 5, 2023
    Parenting

    Writing on Prepaid Time: Shannon Sanders on Balancing Parenthood and Publishing

    By Shannon Sanders  October 4, 2023
    Audiobook Narration

    On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

    By Freda Love Smith  October 4, 2023
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    No Place Like London: V.E. Schwab, Lina Rather, and Oliver Darkshire

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 4, 2023
    Book Anniversary

    Khaled Hosseini on the 20th Anniversary of The Kite Runner

    By Khaled Hosseini  October 3, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Zadie Smith on Radical Work

    By Talk Easy  October 3, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    If Lydia Davis Wasn’t a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism

    By Lydia Davis  October 2, 2023
    Write-minded

    Kayvion Lewis on Writing What Lights Your Fire

    By Write-minded   October 2, 2023
    First Draft

    Etaf Rum on Exploring Herself Through Her Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 2, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Shilpi Suneja on Writing After Salman Rushdie

    By History of Literature  October 2, 2023
    Romance

    Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

    By Lauren Forsythe  September 29, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Isle McElroy on the Art of the Sex Scene

    By Isle McElroy  September 29, 2023
    Sexual Assault

    You Too? Kim DeRose on Telling and Retelling Stories of Sexual Assault

    By Kim DeRose  September 28, 2023
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