Lit Hub Daily: September 29, 2023
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Penance This book is an examination of the 2016 murder of teenager Joan Wilson by three girls attending the same…
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Penance This book is an examination of the 2016 murder of teenager Joan Wilson by three girls attending the same…
The following is from Eliza Clark’s Penance. A native of Newcastle, Clark lives in London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. She works in social media marketing and…
September 29, 2023, 5:00am The wheel of the year continues, as ever, to turn, and that means that it’s now October, a month that can signal chills on the thermometer…
Deep into my writing spiral in the fall of 2021, just when I was about to give up on turning my reporting at the Los Angeles Times into a book-length…
Everyone loves a good meet cute. It’s the reason we wait with bated breath in the movies, exhale a sigh of relief when we reach a certain page in a…
“This is not the end of an incident, but just the beginning. Lies written in ink cannot cover up facts written in blood. Blood debts must be repaid in kind.…
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The sext, even more than short stories or poems or novels, is the ultimate plea for a reader’s attention. Stakes are rarely…
The literary world knows Iowa City as home to America’s first creative writing program and a UNESCO City of Literature, but it’s also a landmark city for cinephiles. In the…
A new volume of succinct yet stirring stories arrives with the second season of Future Fables. Exploring how the ancient fable form may bring us replenishment, comfort and perhaps guidance…
Jonathan Raban’s Father and Son, Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man, and Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month Brought to you by Book…