• Craft and Advice

    Otherppl

    Gina Frangello on the Editorial Omniscient and Why We Should All Be Using it

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 16, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

    By Ann Napolitano  March 15, 2023
    Autofiction

    Appropriating Their Way Into Existence: How Black Writers Upended Autofiction

    By DK Nnuro  March 15, 2023
    Thresholds

    Sarah Thankam Mathews on Her Brush with Mortality and the “Sourdough Starter of Ego Death”

    By Thresholds   March 15, 2023
    Interview with a Poet

    Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

    By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
    Family Stories

    What Lies Beneath: The Deep Geology of Prose

    By Elizabeth McKenzie  March 14, 2023
    Essay

    How To Find a Charming Narrator in a Self-Conscious Age

    By Cathleen Schine  March 14, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  March 14, 2023
    I'm a Writer But

    “The Unknown Became the Central Part.” Matthew Vollmer on His New Memoir

    By I'm a Writer But   March 14, 2023
    Otherppl

    “I’m in Communion with Emily Dickinson.” Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Navigate Our World Through Poetry

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 14, 2023
    Advice

    “Everything is Riding on Your Author Photo.” Mary Childs on What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book

    By Mary Childs  March 13, 2023
    Writing

    Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  March 13, 2023
    Family Stories

    Our Family Secret Was Embedded in My Writing Before I Knew the Truth

    By Dani Shapiro  March 13, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gish Jen on Mining Tension in Fiction

    By Write-minded   March 13, 2023
    First Draft

    Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: Michelle Dowd Revisits Her Childhood in Forager

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 13, 2023
    Plot

    The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

    By Samuel Ligon  March 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Jean Hanff Korelitz on Philip Roth, The Human Stain, and a Novelist’s Right to Tell Other People’s Stories

    By Keen On  March 13, 2023
    The Craft of Writing

    Xiaolu Guo on Translating
    the Self

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 10, 2023
    Dysmorphia

    My Author Photo Brought Me Face to Face With the Body I Hated

    By Kate Brody  March 9, 2023
    Otherppl

    Camonghne Felix on Her Gamification Approach to Collage

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 9, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Letters to a Writer of Color: Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Finding Community With Each Other

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 9, 2023
    Thresholds

    Layli Long Soldier on the Joys of Creative Liberation

    By Thresholds   March 8, 2023
    When I’m Not Writing

    How Wave Riding is Like Writing: Liza Monroy on Surrendering to the Great Unknown

    By Liza Monroy  March 8, 2023
    Debut Authors

    If Doctors Make the Worst Patients, Do Editors Make the Worst Authors?

    By Jenny Jackson  March 8, 2023
    Book Awards

    Meet the Five PEN/Faulkner Finalists of 2023

    By Martha Anne Toll  March 8, 2023
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