• Craft and Criticism

    The Critic and Her Publics

    Andrea Long Chu on Liking and Hating

    In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

     
    By The Critic and Her Publics   January 30, 2024
    War

    What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies

    By Aminatta Forna  January 29, 2024
    The Writing Life

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

    By Rachel Gordan  January 29, 2024
    Arab American Literature

    No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

    By Aisha Abdel Gawad  January 29, 2024
    Write-minded

    Janet Fitch on Writing With All The Senses

    By Drew Broussard  January 29, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  January 26, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    On Writing

    Author as Illusionist: William Maxwell on Literary Magic and Refusing to Give Up as a Writer

    By William Maxwell  January 26, 2024
    Unlikeable Female Characters

    So Fetch, So Fierce: In Praise of All the Literary Mean Girls

    By Jennifer Keishin Armstrong  January 26, 2024
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandi Wells is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  January 26, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Wesley Morris on the Disappearing Middle

    This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

    By Talk Easy  January 30, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    Am I the Literary Assh*le? Judging Your Bad Bookish Behavior

    By Kristen Arnett  January 25, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  January 25, 2024
    The History of Literature

    David Cooper on the Czech Manuscripts Hoax

    By History of Literature  January 25, 2024
    Revision

    Re(re)vision: Laurie Frankel on Throwing Away Half Her Book While Writing It

    The Author of “Family Family” Listens to Angel and Demon Alike As She Revises

    By Laurie Frankel  January 24, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Megan Hunter on the Experience of Bringing a Novel to the Big Screen

    By Literary Hub  January 24, 2024
    Talk Easy

    Dan Levy on Not Fearing Sincerity

    By Talk Easy  January 24, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Zachary Pace on the Push and Pull of Working in Publishing as a Writer

    By Zachary Pace  January 23, 2024
    Creative Nonfiction

    How Nellie Bly and Other Trailblazing Women Wrote Creative Nonfiction Before It Was a Thing

    Lee Gutkind on the Early Origins of a Very American Kind of Writing

    By Lee Gutkind  January 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Manjula Martin on Chronicling a World in Constant Turmoil

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 23, 2024
    New Books Tuesdays

    26 new books out today!

    By Gabrielle Bellot  January 23, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Kate Brody on Subverting Genre

    By I'm a Writer But   January 23, 2024
    Children's Lit

    From Board Books to Middle Grade: 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in January

    Caroline Carlson Recommends Jordan Scott, Laura Gehl, Brittany J. Thurman, and More

    By Caroline Carlson  January 22, 2024
    First Draft

    Jill McCorkle on Nostalgia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 22, 2024
    Write-minded

    How to Be Self-Revealing in Memoir When You’re Not In Real Life

    By Write-minded   January 22, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  January 25, 2024
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