The Other Boy and the Heron
The heron has a robust mythological history across many cultures, and while the meanings differ, many deal with death, rebirth, and transformation.
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Ada Limón and the Poetry of Rebellion
You know what? I’m 45, and I get to write whatever poems I want.
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Shifting Faster and Faster: The Millions Interviews Julia May Jonas
I don't know when a campus novel was not a social novel. I think the idea of all campus novels are that colleges are kind of test tubes for life, constructed realities in which people who are transitioning from being children to adulthood are put in a small society.
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Reading Tolstoy, Together: The Millions Interviews Yiyun Li
When I read by myself, I take a lot of shortcuts. I don't think through things. By reading with people, by expressing observations, by watching people react, I've been thinking through a lot of topics about War and Peace more thoroughly.
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Guilt Is Fecund: The Millions Interviews Frank Bidart
They're not always glamorous words, they're not always the most superficially eloquent words. But these words have within them some density of feeling, and of desire, and of failure, that therefore become what we want to call poetic.
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Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes Name 2021 Winners
Three print magazines and two digital publications—including Bellevue Literary Review and Full Stop—were named winners of the fourth annual Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes, taking home a combined total of $144,000 in funding.
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Where Was God?: The Millions Interviews Véronique Tadjo
It is very comforting for a writer to work from the premise of a universal genre. Tales are timeless therefore it is left to the storyteller to adapt them for a new audience.
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Over the Brink of Disaster: The Millions Interviews Elisa Gabbert
The only way to get through time alive is to spend a lot of it pretending that everything’s fine.
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Who’s Afraid of Poetry in America?
The PBS television show Poetry in America aims to prove that American poetry is rooted both in tradition and experiment; that it is for both the poets and the people; and that, contrary to popular belief, it still plays an important role in many lives.
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How to Live the Writing Life
Talk to any agent or editor and they’ll all say the same thing. If given a choice between a mediocre manuscript from a writer with an MFA and a remarkable one from a writer who never even went to college, they will always choose the best writing.
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Breathing New Life into Old Books
We sat down to chat with D.W. Young, the director of The Booksellers, a new documentary about the world of antiquarian bookselling.
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“Cancelled” Is Canceled
If you are writing in American English, “canceled” and “canceling” are spelled with one “l,” but “cancellation” is spelled with two. Or, of course, you can ignore me. It's just copy, after all. Who cares!? Just please stay inside!!
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Laying Cromwell to Rest: The Millions Interviews Hilary Mantel
The past has to be respected and valued for its own sake. It is not a rehearsal for the present, and its people are not us in a primitive form.
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All Poetry Is Political: The Millions Interviews Olivia Gatwood
Even the freedom to be indifferent is political. White, cis, straight men feeling unburdened enough to not talk about politics is political.
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This Is the Right Way to Capitalize Headlines
Welcome back to Do You Copy, our series on copyediting (copy editing? copy-editing?) that investigates some of the editorial life’s deepest mysteries.
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Telling Toni Morrison’s Story: The Millions Interviews Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
The Pieces I Am presents Toni as the person that I know. Audiences will see her as the brilliant, strong woman she is. They will love her more than ever.
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How Do You Like Your Copy?
Lit Hub has brought Benjamin Dryer and Mary Norris together to discuss their love of editing, copy mistakes writers often make, and more.
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An Imagined Possibility: The Millions Interviews Claudia Rankine
Our inability to have conversations is manifesting as a national crisis.
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