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The 2024 Booker Prize longlist is here.

The 2024 Booker Prize longlist is here.

By James Folta | July 30, 2024

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Importance of Finding the Unusual in the Ordinary

By Jenny Minton Quigley | April 22, 2024

Wild Houses

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 19, 2024

Whatever Ideas About Writing You Have It’s Really Just Something You Do (Or Don’t)

Whatever Ideas About Writing You Have It’s Really Just Something You Do (Or Don’t)

Colin Barrett on the Importance Letting His Characters Talk a Little Shite

By Colin Barrett | May 9, 2022

25 new books to pick up this week.

25 new books to pick up this week.

By Katie Yee | May 3, 2022

How to Write a Good Fight Scene

How to Write a Good Fight Scene

Jeff Bens Unpacks the Literary Mechanics of a Believable Scrap

By Jeff Bens | October 7, 2021

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Irish writer gets into Twitter fight with… the Auschwitz Memorial Museum?

By Jonny Diamond | January 6, 2020

The 10 Best Short Story Collections of the Decade

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2019

Literary Twitter's Best Responses to Jonathan Franzen's Rules for Writing

By Jessie Gaynor | November 16, 2018

15 Great Irish Writers You've Probably Never Read (But Should)

15 Great Irish Writers You've Probably Never Read (But Should)

This St. Patrick's Day, Choose Books over Booze

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2017

"The Clancy Kid"

Colin Barrett

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 23, 2015

NBA-Finalist Karen E. Bender's Favorite Short Stories

NBA-Finalist Karen E. Bender's Favorite Short Stories

All-Time Greats and Unexpected Gems from a Master of the Form

By Karen E. Bender | November 18, 2015