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Claire Vaye Watkins on Grief in the Desert

Claire Vaye Watkins on Grief in the Desert

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | October 1, 2025

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Coming Undone: Telling the Stories of Women Who Burn It All Down

Claire Hoffman on Aimee Semple McPherson

By Claire Hoffman | April 14, 2025

Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

The Co-Host of Mother Culture on Becoming a Different Kind of Reader

By Sarah Wheeler | December 18, 2023

Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

Kay Chronister Recommends Books by Daniel Chacón, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Lydia Millet, and More

By Kay Chronister | November 29, 2022

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched:
A History of Folk Horror">Michelle Nijhuis on Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched:
A History of Folk Horror

By Michelle Nijhuis | February 14, 2022

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

Claire Vaye Watkins

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 19, 2021

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By Katie Yee | October 5, 2021

The Ultimate Fall 2021 Books Preview

By Emily Temple | September 22, 2021

22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

By Emily Temple | August 31, 2021

Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

Has the Parent Plot Ousted the Marriage Plot in Contemporary Fiction?

Peter Ho Davies Reflects on the New Coming-of-Age Moment

By Peter Ho Davies | January 5, 2021

Kelli Jo Ford on the Books That Helped Her Find a Way Home

Kelli Jo Ford on the Books That Helped Her Find a Way Home

Crooked Hallelujah Recommends Jesmyn Ward, Louise Erdrich, and More">The Author of Crooked Hallelujah Recommends Jesmyn Ward, Louise Erdrich, and More

By Kelli Jo Ford | July 17, 2020

The 10 Best Short Story Collections of the Decade

The 10 Best Short Story Collections of the Decade

And Then Some

By Emily Temple | December 23, 2019

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Daisy Johnson on the Limits of the Wholly New

By Daisy Johnson | January 25, 2019

20 Great Writers on Their Favorite Story Collections

20 Great Writers on Their Favorite Story Collections

Lauren Groff, George Saunders, Samanta Schweblin and More

By John Freeman | June 4, 2018

Claire Vaye Watkins: Some Houses (Various Stages of Dissolve)

Claire Vaye Watkins: Some Houses (Various Stages of Dissolve)

On Childhood, Addiction, and the Search for Home

By Claire Vaye Watkins | November 28, 2017

30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women

30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women

Our Future Bodies, Our Future Selves

By Emily Temple | November 16, 2017

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