Just Fill Up the Pit! And Other Writing Advice from Famous Authors

Michael Chabon, Lindy West, Jim Shepard and More on How to be a Writer

July 26, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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So You’ve Decided to Write: The Writer I Never Had to Edit

Terry McDonell on the Value of Leaving Well Enough Alone

July 26, 2017  By Terry McDonell   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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There’s No Such Thing As Historical Fiction

Paul Lynch on What the Fictional Past Reveals of the Real-Life Present

July 26, 2017  By Paul Lynch   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to Vancouver

And Healthcare Isn't Even One of Them

July 26, 2017  By Ludmila Leiva   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Poetry Against the Border Wall

Aracelis Girmay and Emmy Pérez in Conversation

July 26, 2017  By Aracelis Girmay   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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Reading Across America: Storytelling on a Mountain and in Caves

Bringing Literature to Griffith Park, One of the Most Miraculous Spots in LA

July 26, 2017  By Sara Finnerty   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Why Write a Musical About the Brontës?

Dramatizing a Family Rife With Intrigue, Illicit Romance, and Fierce Feminism

July 26, 2017  By Katie Palmer   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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The Grip Of It

Jac Jemc

“I tell Julie I’ve made a friend at work.”

July 26, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 25, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 25, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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The Time Murakami Met Carver (and Other Literary Meet-Cutes)

Famous Writers in the Wild, Talking to Each Other

July 25, 2017  By Emily Temple   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

Veronica Esposito on the Books That Come Along to Rescue Us

July 25, 2017  By Veronica Esposito   Posted In  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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So You’ve Decided to Write: Will You Tell the Truth?

Terry McDonell on the Deal All Writers Have to Make With Themselves

July 25, 2017  By Terry McDonell   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Reading Aloud With Others Is More Important Than You Think

A Brief History of Social Reading

July 25, 2017  By Abigail Williams   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Marriage, Secrets, and Housewives Turned Beasts

Helen Ellis in Conversation with Sarah Hall

July 25, 2017  By Helen Ellis   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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The Worst White House Kitchen in History

The Roosevelts Went Well Beyond Ketchup with Steak

July 25, 2017  By Laura Shapiro   Posted In  Features  Food  News and Culture 
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The Unit

Ninni Holmqvist (Trans. Marlaine Delargy)

“Yes, I did actually have a house.”

July 25, 2017  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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5 Books Making News This Week: Mothers, Memoirs, and Military Women

Zinzi Clemmons, Tamara Shopsin, Svetlana Alexievich, and More

July 25, 2017  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Features  Reading Lists 
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The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

Looking Beyond the Bro-Canon

July 25, 2017  By Allison Gallagher   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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How Patti Smith Brought Rock ‘n’ Roll to New York Poetry

The Arty Rimbaud in a Spotlight

July 24, 2017  By Daniel Kane   Posted In  Features  Music  News and Culture 
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Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2017

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

July 24, 2017  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Features 
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