The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next: Recently, while at an outdoor train museum in Los Angeles, I stopped… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Features
December 29, 2024 at 3:03 PM
The Annotated Nightstand: What Brandon Shimoda Is Reading Now, and Next: Recently, while at an outdoor train museum in Los Angeles, I stopped… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Features
In Praise of Wonder Boys (Both the Book AND the Movie): Architect Henry Hornbostel’s 1905 School of Applied Design, now Carnegie Mellon University’s College… https://lithub.com/i... #CraftandCriticism #Features
February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
In Praise of Wonder Boys (Both the Book AND the Movie): Architect Henry Hornbostel’s 1905 School of Applied Design, now Carnegie Mellon University’s College… https://lithub.com/i... #CraftandCriticism #Features
”Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism: Perhaps poetry is best minted under pressure.… https://lithub.com/p... #Biography #CraftandCriticism
March 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
”Poetry Remains Indestructible.” On the Resilience of Art in the Face of Fascism: Perhaps poetry is best minted under pressure.… https://lithub.com/p... #Biography #CraftandCriticism
He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump: In the days after the election, as the list… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features
February 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
He Got Away With Everything: Reading True Grit After the Reelection of Donald Trump: In the days after the election, as the list… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week: Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Ron Charles on Eric Puchner’s Dream State, Becca Rothfeld on… https://lithub.com/5... #CraftandCriticism #Features
February 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week: Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Ron Charles on Eric Puchner’s Dream State, Becca Rothfeld on… https://lithub.com/5... #CraftandCriticism #Features
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund: Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort… #CraftandCriticism #Features
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund
Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort was part of the organization, discusses researching and writing
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July 27, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund: Artist and writer Molly Crabapple joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the Jewish Labor Bund and its socialist, secular, anti-Zionist principles. Crabapple, whose artist great-grandfather Sam Rothbort… #CraftandCriticism #Features
The Craft of Surrealism: On Accessing the Unconscious in Our Fiction: I found literary surrealism as a young teenager by way of Anaïs… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
December 6, 2024 at 5:16 PM
The Craft of Surrealism: On Accessing the Unconscious in Our Fiction: I found literary surrealism as a young teenager by way of Anaïs… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Features
March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Features
Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction: The… https://lithub.com/b... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
January 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction: The… https://lithub.com/b... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell: On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved for three… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell
On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved for three days, one of his cellmates began
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September 30, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell: On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved for three… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101: Weird girl lit is having a moment. From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredients for a… #CraftandCriticism #Features
Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101
Weird girl lit is having a moment. From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredients for a distinctive personality type. The weird girl
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October 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101: Weird girl lit is having a moment. From TikTok videos to front tables at indie bookshops and in countless newsletters, a group of seemingly ubiquitous novels are being grouped together like ingredients for a… #CraftandCriticism #Features
What Ann Patchett’s Whistler Gets Right and Wrong About Horses: Popular novels often stumble in telling horse stories. Authors have colts (male) growing up to become mares (female); regional riders competing in red (national) coats; horses at a lope (slow) winning… #CraftandCriticism #Features
What Ann Patchett’s Whistler Gets Right and Wrong About Horses
Popular novels often stumble in telling horse stories. Authors have colts (male) growing up to become mares (female); regional riders competing in red (national) coats; horses at a lope (slow) winning speed contests. As a neuroscientist and horse trainer studying
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October 1, 2026 at 12:19 AM
What Ann Patchett’s Whistler Gets Right and Wrong About Horses: Popular novels often stumble in telling horse stories. Authors have colts (male) growing up to become mares (female); regional riders competing in red (national) coats; horses at a lope (slow) winning… #CraftandCriticism #Features
From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read: My early reading… https://lithub.com/f... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read: My early reading… https://lithub.com/f... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
The 167 Best Book Covers of 2024: As is now Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year–as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Design
December 10, 2024 at 6:32 PM
The 167 Best Book Covers of 2024: As is now Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year–as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandCriticism #Design
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week: Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June, Lyndal Roper’s Summer of… https://lithub.com/w... #CraftandCriticism #Features
February 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week: Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June, Lyndal Roper’s Summer of… https://lithub.com/w... #CraftandCriticism #Features
What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life: By the summer of 1913, it had been nearly a year since Kafka and… https://lithub.com/w... #Biography #CraftandCriticism
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life: By the summer of 1913, it had been nearly a year since Kafka and… https://lithub.com/w... #Biography #CraftandCriticism
Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish: “Type gives body and voice to silent thought. The speaking page carries it through the… https://lithub.com/i... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
February 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Inky and Determined: In Praise of Writers Who Self-Publish: “Type gives body and voice to silent thought. The speaking page carries it through the… https://lithub.com/i... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls: Clay Walls is a truly pioneering work. Though works by Korean immigrants and… https://lithub.com/a... #CraftandCriticism #Features
January 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A Classic Chronicle of Korean America: On Kim Ronyoung’s Clay Walls: Clay Walls is a truly pioneering work. Though works by Korean immigrants and… https://lithub.com/a... #CraftandCriticism #Features
How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations: Begun in the 1790s, Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813. Its context is… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features
March 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations: Begun in the 1790s, Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813. Its context is… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features
Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction: Classics fan fiction is everywhere you look right now, and I for one am beyond excited… https://lithub.com/n... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
February 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Non-Canon Compliant: In Praise of Classic Lit Fan Fiction: Classics fan fiction is everywhere you look right now, and I for one am beyond excited… https://lithub.com/n... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Did You Know That James Baldwin Wrote for Children, Too?: In rare archival footage, James Baldwin strolls down the sidewalk of 71st Street, surrounded by a… https://lithub.com/d... #CraftandCriticism #Features
March 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Did You Know That James Baldwin Wrote for Children, Too?: In rare archival footage, James Baldwin strolls down the sidewalk of 71st Street, surrounded by a… https://lithub.com/d... #CraftandCriticism #Features
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week: Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Tom Crewe on Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons, Ron Charles on Adam… https://lithub.com/5... #CraftandCriticism #Features
January 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week: Our basket of brilliant reviews this week includes Tom Crewe on Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons, Ron Charles on Adam… https://lithub.com/5... #CraftandCriticism #Features
Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.: What a February it has been, a February that has felt more like a year… https://lithub.com/o... #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Omar El Akkad! Ada Calhoun! Joni Mitchell! 26 new books out today.: What a February it has been, a February that has felt more like a year… https://lithub.com/o... #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction: Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed,… #CraftandCriticism #Features
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. The Calamity
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October 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction: Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed,… #CraftandCriticism #Features
Renee Gladman Spirals Out: This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner,… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Renee Gladman Spirals Out
This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner, author of the essay collection Thin Places. Thresholds is a co-production between Black Mountain Institute and Literary Hub * […]
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June 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Renee Gladman Spirals Out: This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wanted to write. Hosted by Jordan Kisner,… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism