• Craft and Advice

    Talk Easy

    Quinta Brunson Wants to Make People Happy

    By Talk Easy  February 13, 2024
    Poetry

    Jordan Pérez on Understanding Womanhood Through Nature and Learning Poetic Restraint

    By Jordan Pérez  February 12, 2024
    Write-minded

    Aubre Andrus on Writing for Hire

    By Memoir Nation   February 12, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Notes on Camp: Caitlin Cowan on the Joys of Working With Young Writers

    By Caitlin Cowan  February 9, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Mako Yoshikawa on How Making Sushi Can Improve Your Writing

    By Mako Yoshikawa  February 9, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Assh*le? To Blurb, To Follow, To Ghost (Or Not to Ghost)?

    By Kristen Arnett  February 8, 2024
    Craft

    Killing Your Characters Is Traumatic: And It Should Be

    By Karen Outen  February 7, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Yiyun Li on Georges Bernanos’ Mouchette

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   February 7, 2024
    Language

    To Americanize or Americanise: Writing a New Zealand Novel in the America-Dominant Publishing World

    By Rebecca K Reilly  February 7, 2024
    The History of Literature

    Adhaar Noor Desai on Analyzing Shakespeare’s Manuscripts

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Lulu Wang on Balancing Self and Collaboration

    By Talk Easy  February 6, 2024
    Write-minded

    Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

    By Memoir Nation   February 5, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

    By Rick Bass  February 2, 2024
    Trauma

    Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

    By Chris Cander  February 2, 2024
    Social Media

    Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

    By Rebecca Solnit  January 31, 2024
    Work

    Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

    By Brandi Wells  January 31, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Gregory Pardlo on the Psychology of Tennis, Historical Omissions, and Wanting to Be an Architect

    By Literary Hub  January 30, 2024
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Andrea Long Chu on Liking and Hating

    By The Critic and Her Publics   January 30, 2024
    Writers in Conversation

    “I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton.” Padgett Powell, Legend

    By Jean Marc Ah-Sen  January 30, 2024
    War

    What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

    By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

    By Rachel Gordan  January 29, 2024
    Arab American Literature

    No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

    By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
    Write-minded

    Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

    By Memoir Nation   January 29, 2024
    On Writing

    Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

    By William Maxwell  January 26, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Assh*le? Judging Your Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  January 25, 2024
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