writers

I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

 
By Kristen Arnett  October 3, 2024
Mental health

“Brilliant, Unquiet Minds.” Remembering the Writers Who Struggled With Their Demons

By Betsy Lerner  October 2, 2024
Biography

50 Facts About The Power Broker to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary

By James Folta  September 16, 2024
The Writing Life

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

By Nicholas Delbanco  September 16, 2024
Authors

Author Profiles Are No Replacement for Book Criticism But I Love Them Anyway

By Maris Kreizman  August 29, 2024
The Hub

The pros and cons of dating a writer.

By James Folta  August 21, 2024
Road Trips

A Literary Road Trip Across America

By Literary Hub  August 14, 2024
Creative Partnerships

How Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Defied Victorian Relationship Conventions

By Camille Peri  August 13, 2024
American Icons

A Century of James Baldwin

By Literary Hub  August 2, 2024
Creativity

On the Many Paths Artists Take to Sustain Their Creative Practice

By Stacey D'Erasmo  July 10, 2024
Autofiction

Generation Franchise:
Why Writers Are Forced to Become Brands (and Why That’s Bad)

By Jess Row  June 26, 2024
Publishing

It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books

By Maris Kreizman  June 6, 2024
Free Speech

PEN President Jennifer Finney Boylan Announces Plans to Review PEN’s Work Going Back a Decade

By Literary Hub  April 18, 2024
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

Cutting Class: On the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

By Alissa Quart  April 15, 2024
In Memoriam

Remembering Russell Banks: Mary Morris on Her Long Friendship With the Author of American Spirits

By Mary Morris  March 5, 2024
The Writing Life

Collaboration, Not Competition: How Betty Smith Helped Her Fellow Writers

By Rachel Gordan  January 29, 2024
The Hub

These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan  December 21, 2023
Anthropocene

Between Anxiety and Hope: On the Cautious Optimism of Lewis Thomas

By Sukhada Tatke  December 20, 2023
Legacies

What Stig Dagerman’s Typewriter Meant to Him, His Descendants, and His Fans

By Diego Courchay  November 16, 2023
American Literature

Never-Ending Nostalgia: Who and What Inspired Willa Cather

By Benjamin Taylor  November 15, 2023
The Hub

We need more writers to speak out in support of Gaza.

By Dan Sheehan  October 31, 2023
Fear

What Are Thriller Writers Truly Afraid Of?

By Danielle Trussoni  October 31, 2023
In Conversation

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on a Lifetime of Art and Activism

By Aysegul Sert  October 19, 2023
Poets

How W.H. Auden Made Austria His Adopted Home

By Michael O’Sullivan  October 19, 2023
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