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Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong on Being Porous to the World
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
| May 5, 2025
Buffy! Viet Thanh Nguyen! Andrea Long Chu! 23 new books out today.
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| April 8, 2025
The Float Test
Lynn Steger Strong
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| April 8, 2025
Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction
“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| April 7, 2025
“At the Coal Seam of Motherhood.” On Writing About My Kids
Janet Manley Considers Mommy Bloggers, Domestic Novels, and Children as Muses
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Janet Manley
| June 5, 2024
Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO's
Girls.
By
Brittany Allen
| May 13, 2024
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Madelaine Lucas on How to Write a Love Story
By
Madelaine Lucas
| March 24, 2023
Lynn Steger Strong: “Oh, Shit. I Wrote a Domestic Novel. I’m a Woman. What Did I Do?”
By
Otherppl with Brad Listi
| November 9, 2022
A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| November 8, 2022
Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Featuring Blair Braverman, Franny Choi, Lynn Steger Strong, and More!
By
Teddy Wayne
| November 8, 2022
15 new books to dive into this week.
By
Katie Yee
| November 8, 2022
Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from
Thresholds
Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard
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Thresholds
| October 12, 2022
Endnotes on Family: Crystal Hana Kim, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and More Voices from
Thresholds
Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard
By
Thresholds
| August 10, 2022
Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood
Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Taylor Harris
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| January 10, 2022
Reckoning with Sentiment (and Writing the Unsaid) in a Novel About Motherhood
Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Jessica Winter
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| March 10, 2021
How Being the Opposite of an Art Monster Has Helped Lynn Steger Strong’s Work
From the
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Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner
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Thresholds
| March 10, 2021
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"