• Craft and Advice

    Nature Poetics

    Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems

    The Author of “Fugitive Tilt” Explores the Australian Poet’s Evocations of Nature

     
    By Ishion Hutchinson  April 16, 2025
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

    By Sanibel   April 15, 2025
    Art and Life

    The Body Made Metaphoric: Heather Christle on Losing a Rib and Writing a Memoir

    By Heather Christle  April 15, 2025
    Journalism

    From Fact-Checking to Fiction: On the Multifaceted and Often Fruitless Pursuit of Truth

    By Austin Kelley  April 15, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    What Working on Films Taught Me About Writing Fiction

    By Heather McGowan  April 15, 2025
    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    African American Literature

    The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

    By Tiana Clark  April 14, 2025
    First Draft

    Lynne Tillman on Taming Wild Thoughts

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 14, 2025
    Write-minded

    Betsy Lerner on Writing What You Know

    By Write-minded   April 14, 2025
    On Translation

    The Future Will be Translated:
    A Manifesto in Three Lies

    Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation

    By Chloe Garcia Roberts  April 16, 2025
    The Open Road

    How to Write a Novel While Driving on the Sam Houston Tollway

    By Andy Anderegg  April 11, 2025
    Writing the Book

    Following the “Mom Rule.” On Writing Sci-Fi My Mother Could Get Behind

    By Daryl Gregory  April 11, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Maryrose Wood on the Relationship Between Author and Narrator

    By Behind the Mic   April 11, 2025
    Publishing

    What Does It Mean to Be a “Good Author” When You Publish a Book?

    Maris Kreizman on the Realities of Seeing Your Book Out Into the World

    By Maris Kreizman  April 10, 2025
    On The Self

    Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 10, 2025
    Motherhood

    Babies, Wanted and Unwanted: Five Books That Explore Motherhood, Intention, and Desire

    By Uttama Kirit Patel  April 10, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Jon Hickey Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  April 10, 2025
    AI

    Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

    Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”

    By Sarah Viren  April 9, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Katie Kitamura Sometimes Falls In Love with Her Characters (and Other Literary Tidbits)

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Andrea Long Chu Wants to Write a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign (And Other Goodies)

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 8, 2025
    Inspiration

    “The White Whales of the Sky.” On Moby-Dick, Airplanes, and Obsessions Past and Present

    Kate Folk Explains Her Aviation-Themed Homage to Herman Melville’s Timeless Novel

    By Kate Folk  April 8, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Zakiya Dalilah Harris on Satire and Sensitivity

    By The Critic and Her Publics   April 8, 2025
    Book Design

    Secrets of the Designer: The Nuance of Creating the Perfect Book Cover

    By Alia Hanna Habib  April 7, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Natalia Theodoridou on Unraveling a Short Story into a Novel

    By Natalia Theodoridou  April 11, 2025
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