Pat Barker

More than Cosplaying the Past: Andrea Barrett on Learning to Write Fresh Historical Fiction

The Author of “Dust and Light” Shares Her Formative Influences for Using Fact in Fiction

 
By Andrea Barrett  February 26, 2025
Audiobooks

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of February

By AudioFile Magazine  January 31, 2025
New Books Tuesdays

Gay Talese! Gabrielle Korn! Poets respond to Taylor Swift 23 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot  December 3, 2024
In Conversation

Alan Felsenthal on Precision in Poems, the Mundane as Sacred, and Capturing the “Feeling” of Life

By Literary Hub  June 10, 2024
The Hub

8 books to read this month (while your therapist is on vacation).

By Emily Temple  August 10, 2023
A Little Respect Please

6 Difficult Women Who Live on in Fiction

By Elizabeth Fremantle  August 10, 2023
The Hub

Tomorrow is Paperback Book Day, so here are 21 new ones to celebrate.

By Katie Yee  July 29, 2022
The Hub

14 new books to look forward to this week.

By Katie Yee  August 24, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  August 2, 2021
The Hub

Women dominate the shortlist for the International Dublin Literary Award.

By Katie Yee  September 3, 2020
Reading Lists

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

By Cree LeFavour  August 12, 2020
Roundtable

Is It Real? 25 Famous Writers on Writer’s Block

By Emily Temple  September 26, 2018
Design

The 12 Best Book Covers of September

By Emily Temple  September 24, 2018
Excerpts

The Silence of the Girls

By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 13, 2018
Feature

Pat Barker: To Be a Writer You Must Resist the Urge to Clean

By Pat Barker  September 5, 2018
Excerpts

Noonday

By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 10, 2016
What to Read

Really, Really Big Books: A Reading List

By Bethanne Patrick  October 21, 2015

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