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Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated ...

Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and ...

The first summer after my daughter died, I received an email invitation to give a keynote address the next spring. I didn’t ...

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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology ...

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Let’s be honest about something: the fact that writing is hard has nothing to do with how talented you are, how many ideas you have, or how much you want to have finished your novel. Writing is hard ...

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