Lit Hub
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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 have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other…
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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 can start at a kitchen table or at a pinball…
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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, author of a new short story collection titled Daydreams of…
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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 is life itself, surprising and not entirely invited. And yet…
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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. What one culture proves indifferent to, might find a better…
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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 said about winning the award, “has been one of my…
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“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 question: Shouldn’t there be a way to say, without any…
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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 inform the newest incarnation of Black Panther.
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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 special laundry list of gothic tropes as they can be…
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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 didn’t appear out of thin air, that a real flesh-and-bones…
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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 Hub, Linda Huang, a graphic designer at Vintage & Anchor…
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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.