Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In Ursula LeGuin’s essay “The Fisherwoman’s Daughter,” she...
Alexander Maksik on Writing About Post-Recession New York
Alexander Maksik, an inveterate stylist of the first order, is forever walking a line between cynicism and hope, all it playing out at the level of language,...
Riverbankhungrydeerwillow: How We Give Names to Nature
At a place where the stream makes a long wide arc and the forest that surrounds it opens onto a meadow of wild grasses, the willow grows, a solitary figure on...
Sequence of Events in a Story: How to Order Scenes That Build Suspense
The article Sequence of Events in a Story: How to Order Scenes That Build Suspense appeared first on The Write Practice. Have you ever felt cheated when...
Is Pearl Harbor a Film of Propaganda?
Welcome to Open Form, a weekly film podcast hosted by award-winning writer Mychal Denzel Smith. Each week, a different author chooses a movie: a movie they...
Phil Klay on Rebuilding the American Citizen in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological...
Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri
Journalist and biographer Steve Paul and writer and Washington University professor Henry Schvey join host Whitney Terrell live from the Unbound Book Festival...
Lit Hub Daily: May 19, 2022
TODAY: In 1895, British Army officer and Scottish war poet Charles Sorley is born. Also on Lit Hub:...
How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds
Ryan was four years old when he started unboxing toys on camera in 2015. A few years later—assisted by his mother, who left her job as a high school teacher...
