• Craft and Advice

    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    On Craft

    Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

    By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

    By Elissa Bassist  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

    By The Maris Review  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    Thresholds

    Celeste Ng: What Place Does Art Have in the Fight Against Fascism?

    By Thresholds   September 14, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Author-Illustrator Dan Santat on the Magic of Fractured Fairy Tales

    By NewberyTart   September 14, 2022
    Ursa

    Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton Answer Your Questions About Writing and Storytelling

    By Ursa   September 14, 2022
    On Translation

    Jhumpa Lahiri on Michael F. Moore’s Translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed

    By Jhumpa Lahiri  September 13, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  September 13, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Ling Ma on Patterns of Return and the Ways Speculative Fiction Helps Illuminate Real Life

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 13, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Chantal V. Johnson on Letting the Reader Be Smarter Than Her Character

    By I'm a Writer But   September 13, 2022
    Craft

    “I hunt and fish because it helps my writing.” Some Very Specific Writing Advice from Jim Harrison

    By Jim Harrison  September 12, 2022
    On Writing

    Five Writers on How Writing with Creative Constraints Unlocked Their Projects

    By Dashiel Carrera  September 12, 2022
    Mexican History

    Heroes or Traitors? Writing the Story of the Saint Patrick’s Battalion in the Mexican-American War

    By Reyna Grande  September 12, 2022
    Write-minded

    Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir

    By Write-minded   September 12, 2022
    First Draft

    Carlos Allende: How to Make Stories More Compelling

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 12, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Jonathan Escoffery on How to Build Trust with Readers

    By Jonathan Escoffery  September 9, 2022
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