The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

On Constance Fennimore Woolson, a Truly Great 19th-Century Novelist

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 12, 2016

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

Garrard Conley: "I wrote and rewrote again. I wrote in doubt and fear."

By Garrard Conley | May 11, 2016

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

When A Plot is Handed to You on a Petri Dish, Write It

By Eileen Pollack | May 10, 2016

Jay to Bee: Janet Frame's Letters to William Theophilus Brown

Jay to Bee: Janet Frame's Letters to William Theophilus Brown

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 10, 2016

The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City

The Time Shakespeare Caused a Riot in New York City

On the Anniversary of the Astor Place "Macbeth" Clashes

By Andrew Dickson | May 10, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: History, Hilltops, and Horses

Five Books Making News This Week: History, Hilltops, and Horses

J. Gerald Kennedy, Matti Friedman, C. E. Morgan, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | May 10, 2016

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Bookslut is Dead, Long Live Bookslut

By Haley Houseman | May 9, 2016

Using Crime Fiction to Present Fully Formed Muslim Characters

By Marni Graff | May 9, 2016

No One is Writing the Real West Virginia

By Matthew Neill Null | May 9, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Heffers Bookshop

Interview with a Bookstore: Heffers Bookshop

Cambridge's Go-To Bookshop is So Old, Someone's Writing Its History Book

By Interview with a Bookstore | May 9, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Why Writers Shouldn't Boycott North Carolina

Protest Should Be in the Trenches, Not From Afar

By Lucy Kogler | May 6, 2016

Tyehimba Jess on Excavating Popular Music Through Poetry

Tyehimba Jess on Excavating Popular Music Through Poetry

Exploring the Sustenance of Song and Historical Clapbacks

By Adam Fitzgerald | May 5, 2016

Matthew Griffin: Notes from My Book Tour

Matthew Griffin: Notes from My Book Tour

In Which the Author Gapes at Former Bachelor Jake Pavelka and Discovers an Ancient Twig House

By Matthew Griffin | May 5, 2016

On the $50K Acid Trip That Inspired the Grateful Dead's

On the $50K Acid Trip That Inspired the Grateful Dead's "Black Peter"

From Buzz Poole's 33 1/3 Take on Workingman's Dead

By Buzz Poole | May 5, 2016

What is the Writer's Place in a Violent World?

What is the Writer's Place in a Violent World?

Before we describe, we must first be willing to look

By Maaza Mengiste | May 5, 2016

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