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Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

“A story is novelesque when it provokes in the reader, at regular intervals, the burning question: What will happen next?”

By Martín Solares | December 15, 2023

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Writing in Tandem: Inside the Process of Cross-Racial Creative Collaboration

Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene on the Challenges and Benefits of Co-Authorship

By Christine Platt and Catherine Wigginton Greene | December 15, 2023

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

“We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”

By Heather Cleary | December 14, 2023

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright On How Should a Mother Behave

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | December 14, 2023

Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

Micheal O’Siadhail on the Pleasure of Writing Poems by Hand

The Author of Desire Charts His Journey from Pencils to Typewriters to Computers and Back

By Micheal O'Siadhail | December 13, 2023

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

Maura Lammers Considers the Role of Inaction in Fiction and in Real Life

By Maura Lammers | December 13, 2023

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Phyllis Rose on Writing About Real People in Nonfiction, Making Your Diaries Public, and More

By Rumena Bužarovska | December 13, 2023

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

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One Naomi, Two Naomis, Three: The Too-Real Experience of Reading Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger

By Naomi J. Williams | December 12, 2023

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

Pink Dystopia: Gabrielle Korn on How a Decade in Women’s Media Inspired Her Novel

“What no one said out loud was that it already did mean something—to other people’s bottom line.”

By Gabrielle Korn | December 12, 2023

Willem Dafoe on His Human Approach to Acting

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Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

Kelly Weber on Kinship with Nature, Asexuality, and Writing “Untraditional” Erotic Poems

The Author of If You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | December 11, 2023

Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

Alexa Bigwarfe on Finding and Building the Community That’s Right for You

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

By Memoir Nation | December 11, 2023

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Why Novelists Should Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Debbie Urbanski on the Possibility and Promise of Human-Machine Creative Collaboration

By Debbie Urbanski | December 8, 2023

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

Richard Hugo on Starting a Poem

“The words should not serve the subject. The subject should serve the words.”

By Richard Hugo | December 8, 2023

Good media news! Lit Hub is adding Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman as columnists in 2024.

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