Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

Adrienne Rich: It Is Hard to Write About My Own Mother

On the Deep Complexity of the Mother-Daughter Relationship

By Adrienne Rich | August 24, 2018

Sameen Rushdie:

Sameen Rushdie: "Food is a Way of Crossing Boundaries"

The Author of an Iconic Cookbook in Conversation With Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | August 16, 2018

How to Read the Signs in New York City

How to Read the Signs in New York City

New Nonfiction from Joshua Cohen

By Joshua Cohen | August 15, 2018

"Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone" And Other Advice from James Baldwin

You Can Never Go Wrong Listening to This Guy

By Emily Temple | August 2, 2018

There is Such a Thing as Talent: Elizabeth Hardwick on Writing

There is Such a Thing as Talent: Elizabeth Hardwick on Writing

The Brilliant Novelist and Essayist Tells it Like it Is

By Emily Temple | July 27, 2018

Alexander Chee: Don't Give in to That Feeling of Powerlessness

Alexander Chee: Don't Give in to That Feeling of Powerlessness

The Author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Talks to Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | July 19, 2018

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J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

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Susan Sontag on Being a Writer:

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Lit Hub Staff: The Best Essays We Published in Response to Donald Trump

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Emily Gould Talks to Minna Zallman Proctor About Her Landslide

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The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

Chelsea Martin on the Lessons We Take From a Fine Arts Degree

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How to Find Michel de Montaigne's Estate (Or Get Hopelessly Lost Trying)

How to Find Michel de Montaigne's Estate (Or Get Hopelessly Lost Trying)

When a Pilgrimage Becomes its Own Kind of Essay

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