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Can Writers Ever Remember How to Read For Fun?

Amy Shearn on Accidentally Killing Her Book Group and Rediscovering the Joys of Getting Lost in a Story

 
By Amy Shearn  April 1, 2025
The Craft of Writing

Susan Barker on Terror and the Power of Ambiguity

By Susan Barker  January 31, 2025
Inspiration

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

By Kate Weinberg  August 7, 2024
Pets

Whatever You Do, Don’t Let Your Cat Do This

By Dr. Amy Attas  June 26, 2024
The Craft of Writing

Bobby Finger on Finding the Soundtrack to Your Writing

By Bobby Finger  June 21, 2024
Creativity

The Power of Darkness: How Night Skies Inspire Creative Thoughts

By Annabel Abbs-Streets  March 21, 2024
Retellings

From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the Essential Role of Literary Reimaginings

By Joel H. Morris  March 14, 2024
In Memoriam

On the Long, Lonely Apprenticeship of the Writing Life

By Kayla Min Andrews  January 10, 2024
Pulp

In Praise of Pulp Fiction

By Isa Arsén  October 12, 2023
Romance

Why Online Dating Spells the End of the Meet Cute

By Lauren Forsythe  September 29, 2023
Reading Lists

Six Great Novels about Old Friends and Old Friends

By Bobby Finger  August 28, 2023
On Writing

How My Library Patrons Unexpectedly Helped Me Finish My Novel

By Laura Sims  July 27, 2023
Irish History

When the IRA Arrived in Brighton to Blow Up Margaret Thatcher, Her Cabinet, and the Grand Hotel

By Rory Carroll  April 7, 2023
Classical Music

There’s a Long History of Snobs Loving Classical Music—and Classical Musicians Loathing Them

By Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch  October 13, 2022
Espionage

The True Stories of the Women on the Front Lines of America’s Fledgling Intelligence Services

By Nathalia Holt  September 15, 2022
Writing Advice

David Yoon on How to Cultivate Creative Endurance

By David Yoon  May 31, 2022
Queer Identity

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

By Lauren McBrayer  May 4, 2022
The Hub

Here are the winners of this year’s LA Times Book Prizes.

By Corinne Segal  April 25, 2022
Daily Fiction

Booth

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 8, 2022
Cooking

“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

By Kim Fay  February 15, 2022
Running

The Right to Potential: On the Dramatic History of Women’s Elite Running

By Danielle Friedman  January 7, 2022
Daily Fiction

Still Life

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 2, 2021
Literary History

The Unearthly Glamour of Swans: On the Origins of Truman Capote’s Unpublished, Scathing Roman à Clef

By Laurence Leamer  October 13, 2021
New in Nonfiction

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This October

By Literary Hub  September 30, 2021
Drugs

Reefer Madness: How Did We End Up with the Lazy Stoner Stereotype?

By Josiah Hesse  September 23, 2021
Reading Lists

7 Novels For Living Out Your Cottagecore Fantasies

By Lillie Vale  September 9, 2021
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