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Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 22, 2023

The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

From Akhtar’s Introduction of Rushdie at Last Night’s PEN Gala

By Ayad Akhtar | May 19, 2023

Rita Chang-Eppig on How to Write a Fight Scene

Rita Chang-Eppig on How to Write a Fight Scene

“Reading about a fight may not be as exciting as watching one, but it can be so much more satisfying.”

By Rita Chang-Eppig | May 19, 2023

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Also, She Would Still Be Scheduling Dog Surgeries If She Wasn't a Writer

By Literary Hub | May 19, 2023

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

“Though our loss is still hers, she has a profound loss that is all her own.”

By Cassandra Jackson | May 19, 2023

At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

Daisy Florin Finds the Inciting Incident in a Sexual Encounter She Didn't Have a Word For

By Daisy Alpert Florin | May 19, 2023

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How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

By Crystal Smith Paul | May 19, 2023

The Person Who Wrote It Is Eating Ramen: Samantha Irby on Writing for TV

By The Maris Review | May 18, 2023

The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 18, 2023

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

“Every life is a novel for those who are curious enough.”

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2023

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“Each day, I rub my eyes with poetry, bleary in foggy morning light.”

By Jane Wong | May 17, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

Monica Youn, Mary Gaitskill, Patrick Radden Keefe, and More

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2023

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Breanne Mc Ivor Challenges Narrow Visions of Trinidad and Finds Liberation in Saying No to Simplifying Her Books for US Readers

By Breanne Mc Ivor | May 17, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Covenant of Water

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2023

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 16, 2023

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

The Author of The Guest Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

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