Humidity be damned, this month’s crop of books is sparking with exciting new premises and relationship dynamics. You’ve got robots-turned-cooks, an economy built entirely on mandatory memory collec…| Literary Hub
This is part two of a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. All too often, plot is taught as architecture, as per Freitig’s Triangle: rising action, …| Literary Hub
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’ve always been obsessed with Google Maps, specifically street view, but even more so since becoming a novelist. I have s…| Literary Hub
Ten years before I became a dad, I was at MacDowell, eating dinner at a communal table with two poets. They were a decade older, a man and a woman. They were talking about having kids. “I don’t wan…| Literary Hub
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do you become a writer? Answer: you write. It’s amazing how much resentment and disgust and evasion this answer can ar…| Literary Hub