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Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist

Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist

Why Has An Entire Genre Come to be Defined by Its Worst Iterations?

By Lucas Mann | April 1, 2016

Why I Wrote a Novel About Sex Trafficking

Why I Wrote a Novel About Sex Trafficking

Jane Mendelsohn on the Power of Fiction to Bear Witness

By Jane Mendelsohn | April 1, 2016

Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi

Africa Has Always Been Sci-Fi

On Nnedi Okorafor and a New Generation of Afrofuturists

By Namwali Serpell | April 1, 2016

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing

Madness at the End of March, From Fanny Hill to Kathy Acker

By Literary Hub | March 30, 2016

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Pre-<em>Ulysses</em> Division

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Pre-Ulysses Division

Kate Chopin vs. Gustave Flaubert, Bram Stoker vs. John Cleland

By Literary Hub | March 30, 2016

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: The 1980s to Now

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: The 1980s to Now

Jeanette Winterson vs. Annie Proulx, Kathy Acker vs. Dennis Cooper

By Literary Hub | March 30, 2016

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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: The Lost Generation and After

By Literary Hub | March 30, 2016

The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Post-Lolita Division

By Literary Hub | March 30, 2016

On the 13 Words That Made Me a Writer

By Sofia Samatar | March 29, 2016

Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days

Remembering Susan Sontag's Final Days

Katie Roiphe on the Legendary Writer's Will to Survive

By Katie Roiphe | March 28, 2016

At the Existentialist Café

At the Existentialist Café

Sarah Bakewell

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 24, 2016

Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure

Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure

On Accuracy and Authenticity in Art

By Jonathan Russell Clark | March 24, 2016

The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

On the Last Words of Woolf, Koestler, Berryman, and More

By Dustin Illingworth | March 23, 2016

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

Shirley Barrett Goes Deep into the Domestic Research

By Shirley Barrett | March 23, 2016

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

On Chris Pavone's Finely Wrought Espionage Fiction

By Lisa Levy | March 22, 2016

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

From the Tale of Tales to Michael Cunningham to Helen Oyeyemi...

By Tobias Carroll | March 17, 2016

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