• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    David Wroblewski on Writing by Brute Force

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 21, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

    By Erika Swyler  January 17, 2025
    Publishing

    How to Talk About Your Own Book

    By Maris Kreizman  January 16, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 16, 2025
    literary criticism

    The Danger of Lowering Your Heart’s Volume: On the Writing of Ross Gay and Amy Leach

    By Jane Zwart  January 15, 2025
    On Writing

    My Cherished Friend, My Cursed Rival: On the Perils of Literary Envy

    By Layne Fargo  January 15, 2025
    Retellings

    From Ancient Troy to 1990s Tennessee: Maria Zoccola on Creating an Afterlife For Homer’s Helen

    By Maria Zoccola  January 14, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  January 14, 2025
    Representation

    In Defense of the Messy Queers: Why “Good” Representation Isn”t Enough

    By Edward Underhill  January 14, 2025
    In Conversation

    Danielle Legros Georges on Docupoetics, the Nuances of Haiti, and Letter-Writing as Poetry

    By Literary Hub  January 13, 2025
    First Draft

    Paolo Bacigalupi on Building Worlds

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 13, 2025
    Write-minded

    Susan Lieu on Not Letting the Past Stay in the Past

    By Write-minded   January 13, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Adam Haslett on the Uses of Doubt

    By Adam Haslett  January 10, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  January 9, 2025
    Climate Crisis

    What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

    By Eiren Caffall  January 8, 2025
    On Reading

    From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

    By Gloria L. Huang  January 8, 2025
    On Writing

    It’s Not My Job to Understand Agents or the Marketplace. My Job is to Write.

    By Kevin Maloney  January 8, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

    By Elizabeth Harris  January 7, 2025
    First Draft

    Amitava Kumar and Claire Messud on Literary Friendship

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 6, 2025
    Write-minded

    Forrest Gander on the Poem as Novel

    By Write-minded   January 6, 2025
    First Draft

    Boyce Upholt on Finding Hope in Dark Times

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 30, 2024
    Best of 2024

    The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    First Draft

    Amina Gautier on Building a Story Collection

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 23, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Loathe Very Online Writers: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  December 19, 2024
    On Poetry

    Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

    By Peter Mishler  December 17, 2024
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