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Dwyer Murphy on How to Write About a City

Dwyer Murphy on How to Write About a City

“You’re going to want to get out and walk around.”

By Dwyer Murphy | August 5, 2022

An Honest Living

An Honest Living

Dwyer Murphy

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 27, 2022

We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing

We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing

Elaine Castillo on How White Supremacy Makes for Terrible Readers, and the Value of Reading Like a Free, Mysterious Person

By Elaine Castillo | July 26, 2022

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

How Final Fantasy VII Taught Me to Write

Jamil Jan Kochai on Character Building, Storytelling, and Cloud Strife

By Jamil Jan Kochai | July 20, 2022

Burning and Bright: 7 Great Novels About Young Female Friendships

Burning and Bright: 7 Great Novels About Young Female Friendships

Sarah Priscus on the Intimate Bonds Between Young Women

By Sarah Priscus | July 15, 2022

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

Small Rebellions: Erika L. Sánchez on Writing the Characters She Wanted to Read

”I rarely found portrayals of anyone like me—bookish and poor and surly and Brown—in the art that I enjoyed.”

By Erika L. Sánchez | July 14, 2022

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Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

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Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

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Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis

Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis

Erin Swan on Fiction That Dares to Ask, “What If?”

By Erin Swan | June 1, 2022

From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

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The Foundations of Black Feminism and Womanism: A Reading List

The Foundations of Black Feminism and Womanism: A Reading List

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Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office

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“Life can change in an instant.”

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Writing Climate Fiction Showed Me That a Different Life is Possible

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Rebecca Scherm on Looking a Terrifying Future in the Face

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How to Fictionalize New Technology Even As It’s Constantly Changing

How to Fictionalize New Technology Even As It’s Constantly Changing

Claire Stanford on a Novelist's Approach to Tech

By Claire Stanford | April 19, 2022

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires

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