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On Translation
Fiction and Poetry
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Politics
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Lit Hub Radio
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Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Beyond the Page
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Humor
The More Personal the Joke, the Bigger the Laugh (and More Lessons from a Career in Cartoons)
David Sipress on Comic Timing on the Stage and the Page
By
David Sipress
| March 11, 2022
“We’re stuck being described as ‘exploding infants.’” Watch PJ O’Rourke on Baby Boomers.
By
Jonny Diamond
| February 18, 2022
Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor
“No topic is off-limits for comedy.”
By
Maeve Higgins
| January 28, 2022
Kingsley Amis’s Instructions for Coping with Hangovers, Both Physical and Metaphysical
Avoid at All Costs: Cigarettes, Cold Showers, and Evelyn Waugh
By
Kingsley Amis
| January 18, 2022
Lights, Camera... Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After
Fargo
Charlie Berens Recommends Heartland Classics, from
Purple Rain
to
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
By
Charlie Berens
| November 19, 2021
10 new definitions of autofiction.
By
Walker Caplan
| October 21, 2021
Best Reviewed
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How Do You Find a Book When You Can’t Remember the Title or the Author?
By
Marina Luz
| October 21, 2021
The Last-Resort Move That Made My Students Smile
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Frances Starn
| October 20, 2021
A Scotsman: Why I Love Getting Drunk on Cocktails in America
By
Daniel Sloss
| October 13, 2021
The Myth of True Love Hurts Us All—Especially Women
Jen Winston on the True Love Industrial Complex and the Rejuvenating Power of Queerness
By
Jen Winston
| October 8, 2021
How to Be Married, in 16 Simple and Completely F*cking Unrealistic Steps
Kimberly Harrington Breaks Down the Ridiculous Expectations of Lifelong Partnership
By
Kimberly Harrington
| October 7, 2021
The Theory of (Artistic) Relativity, Illustrated
Michelle Rial on Letting Go of Being the Best
By
Michelle Rial
| October 1, 2021
How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe
Catherine Baab-Muguira on Doubling Down on Your Ambitions
By
Catherine Baab-Muguira
| September 30, 2021
Read Kay Ryan’s hilarious, lacerating first-person reporting on AWP.
By
Walker Caplan
| September 21, 2021
Ten campus novels as op-eds about the dangers of wokeness.
By
Jessie Gaynor
| August 31, 2021
Breaking news: Men still don't know how to write women.
By
Vanessa Willoughby
| August 24, 2021
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"The stories in her hypnotic collection em The Pelican Child em are painterly and provocative…"