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John Wray on the One Book That Has Helped Him Become a Better Writer

John Wray on the One Book That Has Helped Him Become a Better Writer

“I’m talking about an unassuming trade paperback, published a few decades back, with a deceptively un-sexy title.”

By John Wray | May 12, 2023

Garth Risk Hallberg Goes Behind the Scenes of the <em>City on Fire</em> Adaptation

Garth Risk Hallberg Goes Behind the Scenes of the City on Fire Adaptation

”The interior was so fully realized and so maximized for pothead goofing off that I didn’t want to leave.”

By Garth Risk Hallberg | May 11, 2023

Stephen Marche Explains Why Technologies Like ChatGPT Will Make Creators More Valuable Than Ever

Stephen Marche Explains Why Technologies Like ChatGPT Will Make Creators More Valuable Than Ever

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 11, 2023

Isabella Hammad on Finding Inspiration in <em>Hamlet</em>

Isabella Hammad on Finding Inspiration in Hamlet

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 11, 2023

The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

Kerri Arsenault in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 11, 2023

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

C. E. McGill Considers Frankenstein’s Monster and Gothic Sci-Fi

By C.E. McGill | May 10, 2023

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How Hamnet the Play Rehabilitates Shakespeare’s Wife

By Andrew Quintana | May 10, 2023

Dave Eggers: “The Freedom of the Artist Has to Be Absolute.”

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 10, 2023

Dave Eggers on Writing from the Subconscious

By Talk Easy | May 9, 2023

Ada Zhang on the Complexity of Capturing Immigrants' Lives in Fiction

Ada Zhang on the Complexity of Capturing Immigrants' Lives in Fiction

Belinda Huijuan Tang Speaks to the Author of The Sorrows of Others

By Belinda Huijuan Tang | May 9, 2023

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

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

Featuring Stephen Buoro, Nicole Cuffy, Hannah Pittard, and More

By Teddy Wayne | May 9, 2023

Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

“This is our language in all its alchemic wonder—old stories rebirthing into bigger worlds.”

By Fae Myenne Ng | May 9, 2023

Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I’m a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | May 9, 2023

Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

Brendan Slocumb on Diving Into the World of Musicology for His New Historical Musical Thriller

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | May 9, 2023

Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Matthew Cheney on Literary Misdirection and Hiding Truth in Fiction

Jeff VanderMeer Speaks With the Author of The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories

By Jeff VanderMeer | May 8, 2023

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

On Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler, and Writing a Documentary Novel

Buzzy Jackson Recounts the Road to Writing About Hannie Schaft

By Buzzy Jackson | May 8, 2023

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