Raymond Chandler’s Writing Legacy
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too greatly gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and…
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In The Beginning
From award-winning indies like Graywolf and Copper Canyon, to the fresh crop of young presses like Yes Yes Books and Topside Press, every press begins with just one book. It…
Oh, Canada
“I love that Justin Trudeau has a literature degree,” says Heather O’Neill. “We need a literary imagination to run the country.” In a conversation with Lit Hub, Montreal-based writer Heather O’Neill,…
So Little Time and Space
In an adapted excerpt from her introduction to 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories over at Lit Hub, Lorrie Moore grasps at the ungraspable reasons we read short stories: This…
Saving History through Translation
At Lit Hub, André Naffis-Sahely discusses the vital importance of translation as a way to preserve a cultural/historical record. Translation improves a book’s chances of survival. In a way, it must.…
Roxane Gay Wins PEN Center Award
Literary juggernaut, Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus, and beloved Twitter person Roxane Gay won the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award. Gay told Lit Hub: “The freedom to write,” Gay…
“We Are Not Robots. We Do What We Can.”
Without readers, for better or worse, writers would have no one to answer to but themselves. But readers sure do ask a lot of questions. Now, writers are asking this…
Afrofuturism and Optimism in Black Panther
At Lit Hub, Aaron Counts looks at writing afrofuturism in comics. Specifically, Counts discusses the upcoming run of Marvel’s Black Panther series by Ta-Nehisi Coates and how Coates’s nonfiction could…
Are You Sure They Are All Horrid?
Over at Lit Hub, Bridget Reid praises the proto-feminist Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe and company, in all of their glory as horrid, formulaic, and dreadfully misunderstood creatures, with a…
The Influence of the Author Photo
There’s a moment not often talked about in the reading process: turning to the cover flap and seeing the face of the story’s creator. It’s a reminder that the story…
Paperback Writer
The goal of the paperback is therefore to reposition a book, capture a wider audience, or target a new market. We give books a second chance. In an essay at Lit…
Finding Truth Between Fact and Fiction
For Lit Hub, novelist Lily Tuck writes on “auto-fiction,” or autobiographical fiction, and why blurring the boundaries between strictly factual autobiography and fiction helps writers shape a firmer story.