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Jessie Gaynor on Finding the <em>Why</em>

Jessie Gaynor on Finding the Why

“A love of the micro need not preclude attention to the macro.”

By Jessie Gaynor | June 23, 2023

What Vera Mutafchieva’s <em>The Case of Cem</em> Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

Angela Rodel on Translating a 20th-Century Bulgarian Classic

By Angela Rodel | June 23, 2023

Winnie Li on Finding That Elusive Thing: A Perfect Writing Space

Winnie Li on Finding That Elusive Thing: A Perfect Writing Space

The Author of Complicit Reflects on the Cozy Writerly Dream, Motherhood, and Making Peace with a Messier Reality

By Winnie M. Li | June 23, 2023

Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and How He Can Win Them Back

Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and How He Can Win Them Back

Jacinda Townsend in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | June 22, 2023

Keziah Weir on the Women Behind Great Literary Men and Guessing Other People’s Intentions

Keziah Weir on the Women Behind Great Literary Men and Guessing Other People’s Intentions

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 22, 2023

Matt Mitchell on Writing Love Poems for Himself and For Others

Matt Mitchell on Writing Love Poems for Himself and For Others

Hanif Abdurraqib Talks to the Author of Vampire Burrito

By Hanif Abdurraqib | June 22, 2023

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How Audrey Clare Farley Rewrote the Story of the Genain Quadruplets

By Audrey Clare Farley | June 22, 2023

How Taylor Swift Saved My Writing

By Ethan Joella | June 21, 2023

N.D. Jones on Leveraging Your “Why”

By Memoir Nation | June 21, 2023

Lorrie Moore: Writing’s Natural Place is As a Passionate Side Hustle

Lorrie Moore: Writing’s Natural Place is As a Passionate Side Hustle

The Author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 20, 2023

What to Do If Your House is Overflowing with Books

What to Do If Your House is Overflowing with Books

Emily Grosvenor Offers Some Interior Design Tips for the Struggling Bibliophile

By Emily Grosvenor | June 20, 2023

How to Think Like a Costume Designer When Writing Historical Fiction

How to Think Like a Costume Designer When Writing Historical Fiction

Claudia Cravens on What Clothes Tell Us About Character

By Claudia Cravens | June 20, 2023

Writers Don’t Need to Suffer To Make Art

Writers Don’t Need to Suffer To Make Art

Haley Jakobson: “Being a tormented artist is v. cringe.”

By Haley Jakobson | June 20, 2023

Grace E. Lavery: You Already Write <em>How</em> You Write, Just Give In.

Grace E. Lavery: You Already Write How You Write, Just Give In.

“The freedoms on the other side of self-surrender are much more interesting than those that require egoistic management.”

By Grace Lavery | June 16, 2023

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

“If you’ve told the same story three times this week, write that one.”

By Helen Ellis | June 16, 2023

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales

“Maybe the sort of multicultural representation we see in recent Regency romances can be a kind of medicine.”

By Sayantani DasGupta | June 16, 2023

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