Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

Catherine Newman on the Humor of the Unexpected

“Anything catching on fire and crashing through the chimney into the living room is funny—but it’s really funny if it’s raccoons.”

By Catherine Newman | October 31, 2025

Lorrie Moore on the Importance of Re-Reading

Lorrie Moore on the Importance of Re-Reading

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | September 16, 2024

Lorrie Moore! Drew Gilpin Faust! Gay lit galore! 27 books out in paperback this May.

Lorrie Moore! Drew Gilpin Faust! Gay lit galore! 27 books out in paperback this May.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 1, 2024

Lorrie Moore: Writing’s Natural Place is As a Passionate Side Hustle

Lorrie Moore: Writing’s Natural Place is As a Passionate Side Hustle

The Author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | June 20, 2023

23 new books to check out today!

23 new books to check out today!

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 20, 2023

To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

Casey Plett on the Distance Between Author-Selves, Ten Years Apart

By Casey Plett | May 22, 2023

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Talking to Joyce Carol Oates on the Way to the Airport About Fiction’s Blurry Borders

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On the Importance of Stories That Take Teenage Girls Seriously

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Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

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The Books That Give Us Chills: On Reading Emotionally

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Veronica Esposito Considers the Power of Art on the Body

By Veronica Esposito | September 13, 2021

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

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Linda Rui Feng on the Stories and Books That Cracked Open the Possibilities of Storytelling

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An Argument for Literature as Care Work

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Alexandra Kingston-Reese on How Writers Can Ease a Care Crisis

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In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

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S. Kirk Walsh Looks Back at 33 Years of Writers in Public

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43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

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Kelli Jo Ford on the Books That Helped Her Find a Way Home

Kelli Jo Ford on the Books That Helped Her Find a Way Home

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The 10 best sentences from Lorrie Moore's ecstatic anti-millennial review of <em>Normal People.</em>

The 10 best sentences from Lorrie Moore's ecstatic anti-millennial review of Normal People.

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