lists

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

 
By Kristen Arnett  February 20, 2025
The Hub

Why I make a very dumb, ranked list of the 100 words I use most every year.

By James Folta  January 9, 2025
Literary Colonialism

The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

By Ainehi Edoro-Glines  July 26, 2024
Book Criticism

On the Making of That New York Times Best Books of the Century List

By Maris Kreizman  July 18, 2024
The Hub

Bookmarks: the definitive ranking.

By James Folta  June 4, 2024
The Hub

The ten cringiest things in poetry.

By Jessie Gaynor  April 8, 2024
The Hub

Richard Serra’s “Verb List” is both art and to-do list.

By James Folta  March 27, 2024
New Year's Resolutions

Stop Making Excuses: Why There’s Always Time to Follow Your Writing Dreams

By Angela Brown  January 2, 2024
The Hub

Literary villains who were actually just suffering from burnout.

By Jessie Gaynor  September 1, 2022
Writing

The Literary Value of a Good List

By Lily Chu  June 1, 2022
Trees

The 18 Most Memorable Trees in Literature

By Christopher Cox  August 23, 2021
The Hub

This random list of things Lorraine Hansberry liked and disliked is delightful.

By Vanessa Willoughby  May 19, 2021
Best of the Year

The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2020

By Literary Hub  December 21, 2020
The Art of the List

Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

By Emily Temple  June 16, 2020
Lists of Lists

The Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List

By Emily Temple  June 10, 2020
Philosophy

The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

By Lisa Levy  October 4, 2019
Climate Change Library

Finding My Climate-Conscious Tribe: Black Nature Lovers and Writers

By Kim-Marie Walker  July 26, 2019
Bad Writing Advice

20 Ways to Be a Great Literary Citizen, According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

By Adam Ehrlich Sachs  May 23, 2019
Close Reading

A Close Reading of Jack Kerouac’s Advice to Writers

By Emily Temple  March 12, 2019
Conversations

What It’s Like to Write a Book Full of Books

By Thomas DePietro  October 10, 2018
Essay

Why Literature Loves Lists

By Brian Dillon  September 14, 2018
Feature

5 Novels That Embody the Lived Experience of Womanhood

By Jana Casale  August 30, 2018
Advice

5 Reasons A Writer Should Move to Mumbai

By Namrata Poddar  August 27, 2018
Feature

Laura van den Berg on the Horror Films That Inspired Her New Novel

By Laura van den Berg  August 24, 2018
Feature

Buddy, the Library Isn’t a 7-Eleven

By Kristen Arnett  August 15, 2018
Advice

What If You Win a Comedy Award But Don’t Think You’re Funny?

By Julie Schumacher  August 14, 2018
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