• Craft and Advice

    Awakeners

    Melissa Febos and Lydi Conklin Aren’t Afraid to Be Direct

    In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

     
    By Awakeners   June 10, 2025
    Literary Parties

    Gatherings Gone Wrong: Five Books Featuring Disastrous Party Scenes

    By Jonathan Parks-Ramage  June 10, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  June 10, 2025
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Jess Walter Eats Breakfast Three or Four Times While Writing (and Other Literary Tidbits)

    By Literary Hub  June 10, 2025
    Inspiration

    Art Imitates Life: Finding Creative Freedom in the Fusion of Fiction and Biography

    By Megan Hunter  June 10, 2025
    Languages

    The Blessing of a Hybrid Brain: On the Joy of Writing in Two Languages

    By Tatiana de Rosnay  June 9, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Write-minded

    Victoria Chang on Exploring Silence

    By Memoir Nation   June 9, 2025
    The Writing Life

    A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing a Nonfiction Book

    By Thomas E. Ricks  June 6, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Beyond the Historical Trauma Plot: On Fictionalizing the Armenian Genocide

    By Aram Mrjoian  June 6, 2025
    Queer Literature

    A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

    B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

    By B. Pietras  June 10, 2025
    The Natural World

    Writing Nature: The Healing Connection of Space and Spirit

    By Bridget Crocker  June 6, 2025
    LGBTQ Stories

    The Wrong Story: Jeremy Atherton Lin on Writing Love and Politics

    By Jeremy Atherton Lin  June 5, 2025
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Kate Briggs Is Reading Now, and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 5, 2025
    Speeches

    Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return… pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

    From His Keynote Speech from the 2025 Whiting Awards Ceremony

    By Ocean Vuong  June 4, 2025
    In Conversation

    Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

    By Sarah Viren  June 4, 2025
    Fact vs. Fiction

    Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

    By Aidan Ryan  June 4, 2025
    Historical Fiction

    Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

    By Maggie Stiefvater  June 4, 2025
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

    In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   June 4, 2025
    Thresholds

    Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

    By Thresholds   June 4, 2025
    The Critic and Her Publics

    Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics

    By The Critic and Her Publics   June 3, 2025
    In Conversation

    Susan Choi on Writing a Cross-Cultural Story of Mystery and Tragedy

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 3, 2025
    First Draft

    Madeleine Thien on Writing a Love for This World

    In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 2, 2025
    Write-minded

    Elissa Altman on Permission

    By Memoir Nation   June 2, 2025
    Bugs

    In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl  June 2, 2025
    Family Stories

    Skeletons in the Literary Closet: Five Novels That Dangle Family Secrets Before the Reader

    By Susan Walter  June 6, 2025
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