• Craft and Criticism

    The Lit Hub Podcast

    On the Lit Hub Podcast: To Be or Not To Be? To Rec or Not to Rec?

    featuring Jeremy McCarter, James Folta, and Drew Broussard

     
    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 13, 2025
    In Memoriam

    “The Finch Interested Me…” In Memory of Lewis H. Lapham and the Magazine He Founded

    By Donovan Hohn  June 13, 2025
    Overlooked Women

    Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s Iliad

    By Emily Hauser  June 13, 2025
    Queer Literature

    Liberating Lit: Iryn Tushabe on Writing Stories of African Black Queer Joy Under Oppression

    By Iryn Tushabe  June 13, 2025
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  June 13, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Lucas Schaefer on Troubleshooting a Problem Character

    By Lucas Schaefer  June 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Food Writing

    Food as First Language: Mike Curato on the Validation of Learning to Cook Filipino Food

    By Mike Curato  June 13, 2025
    Behind the Mic

    Vikas Adam on His Golden Voice

    By Behind the Mic   June 13, 2025
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 12, 2025
    Father's Day

    Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write… But Must It Change What You Write?

    Danny Lorberbaum on Balancing Creativity and New Fatherhood

    By Danny Lorberbaum  June 13, 2025
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 12, 2025
    Writing the Novel

    Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

    By Janelle Brown  June 12, 2025
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 12, 2025
    Black History

    To Tell The Honest Truth: Why Black Women’s Stories Remain Essential

    A’Lelia Bundles on Writing About Her Great-Grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, Harlem’s “Black Cinderella”

    By A'Lelia Bundles  June 11, 2025
    In Conversation

    The Craft of This Mortal Coil: Jonathan Gluck on Writing a Different Cancer Story

    By Terry McDonell  June 11, 2025
    Literary Adaptations

    On Reimagining The Great Gatsby as a Black American Story

    By Kyra Davis Lurie  June 11, 2025
    Thresholds

    Sarah Aziza on Trying Not to Disappear

    By Thresholds   June 11, 2025
    Awakeners

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

    In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

    By Awakeners   June 10, 2025
    Queer Literature

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

    By B. Pietras  June 10, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power

    By Nan Z. Da  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

    Featuring Geoff Dyer, Ivy Pochoda, Megan Giddings and More

    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
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Don’t Think My Fantasy-Writing Friend Will Get My Literary Fiction: Am I the Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  June 12, 2025
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