How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”

March 5, 2025  By Emily Hodgson Anderson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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Dear Jimi Hendrix: A Letter, in Gratitude, From Jeffery Renard Allen

“Know that I carry you everywhere, that you more than anyone on this planet have shaped me as a writer.”

March 5, 2025  By Jeffery Renard Allen   Posted In  Biography  Features  Music 
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The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

Nicole Graev Lipson Reflects on Thoreau, the Self, and the Frenzy of Parenting

March 5, 2025  By Nicole Graev Lipson   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism  Memoir  News and Culture 
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How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

Julie Zigoris on the Resilience of Booksellers

March 5, 2025  By Julie Zigoris   Posted In  Bookstores and Libraries  Climate Change  Features  News and Culture 
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Patchworks of Memory: Quilting Remembrance and Healing

Lisa Gail Collins on the Creative Traditions of a Black Farming Community in Alabama

March 5, 2025  By Lisa Gail Collins   Posted In  Art and Photography  Features  Memoir  News and Culture 
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“The Old Current,” a Poem by Brad Leithauser

From the Collection “The Old Current”

March 5, 2025  By Brad Leithauser   Posted In  Features  Fiction and Poetry  Poem 
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Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

The Author of “Woodworking” Explores What It Means to Transition in Art and Life

March 5, 2025  By Emily St. James   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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Lidia Yuknavitch on Waiting for the Waves

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

March 5, 2025  By Thresholds    Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation  Lit Hub Radio  Literary Criticism  Thresholds 
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The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

March 5, 2025  By Lit Hub Excerpts   Posted In  Daily Fiction  Excerpts  Fiction and Poetry  From the Novel  Novels 
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An architecture journal’s Palestine issue was abruptly shelved.

March 4, 2025  By James Folta   Posted In  Design  News and Culture  Politics  The Hub 
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Here are the finalists for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

March 4, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Book News  News and Culture  The Hub 
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A Small Press Book We Love:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

March 4, 2025  By Jonny Diamond   Posted In  Climate Change  Literary Criticism  Memoir  Nature  News and Culture  Science  The Hub 
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March 4, 2025  By Lit Hub Daily   Posted In  Lit Hub Daily 
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Bare Before the Sublime:
A Short History of Nudity As Spiritual Practice

Philip Carr-Gomm Explores the Relationship Between the Naked Body and Unconventional Spirituality Throughout the Ages

March 4, 2025  By Philip Carr-Gomm   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Religion 
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The US Has a Journalism Crisis: Here’s Why Writers Are Leaving the Profession in Droves

Brittany K. Allen on the Dire State of American Media

March 4, 2025  By Brittany Allen   Posted In  Features  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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What Russia’s Violent History of Occupation Reveals About Its Ongoing War on Ukraine

Sofi Oksanen on the Importance of Preserving Personal and Collective Memory in the Face of Imperialist Aggression

March 4, 2025  By Sofi Oksanen   Posted In  History  News and Culture  Politics 
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Why I Spent Part of My Advance Money to See Adele Live

Jinwoo Chong on the Tension Between Creative Dreams and the Financial Realities of Publishing

March 4, 2025  By Jinwoo Chong   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features 
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Invasions, Empires, Political Bromances: Five Nonfiction Books That Explain Modern Russia

Charles Hecker Recommends Joshua Yaffa, Svetlana Alexievich, David Remnick, and More

March 4, 2025  By Charles Hecker   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  History  Literary Criticism  News and Culture  On Translation  Politics  Reading Lists 
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Emma Pattee on Imagining the Devastating Aftermath of the “Big One”

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Tilt”

March 4, 2025  By Jane Ciabattari   Posted In  Craft and Criticism  Features  In Conversation 
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On Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses As a Military Spouse

Jehanne Dubrow: “Writing is itself an act of metamorphosis; it fixes a narrative to the page so that our small lives endure beyond us.”

March 4, 2025  By Jehanne Dubrow   Posted In  Craft and Advice  Craft and Criticism  Features  Literary Criticism 
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