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Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

By Julia Hass | October 14, 2025

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The First in a Five-Part Series on the Craft of Writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | June 27, 2025

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

Following Flaco the Owl: In Praise of Writing Into Our Obsessions

David Gessner: “If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.”

By David Gessner | February 10, 2025

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

in Fiction and Life">Hannah Meyer Considers the Power of Destructive Desire
in Fiction and Life

By Hannah Meyer | July 24, 2023

Back to School for Everyone: (Free!) Syllabi from Some of Our Favorite Writers

Back to School for Everyone: (Free!) Syllabi from Some of Our Favorite Writers

Featuring Victoria Chang, Julia May Jonas, Sam Lipsyte, and More

By Literary Hub | September 6, 2022

Back to School for Everyone: The Literature of Obsession with Julia May Jonas

Back to School for Everyone: The Literature of Obsession with Julia May Jonas

On Transformation, Destruction, and Catharsis

By Julia May Jonas | September 6, 2022

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Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood on “Literary Destiny” and the Topics of Our Obsession

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | June 8, 2022

How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

By Steve Almond | May 3, 2022

How to Finally Stop Obsessing About That Thing That Keeps You up at Night

By Moshe Bar | February 9, 2022

Ann Napolitano: Honor Your Obsessions—Especially the Weird Ones

Ann Napolitano: Honor Your Obsessions—Especially the Weird Ones

Even if It Makes You Uncomfortable

By Ann Napolitano | March 9, 2020

Red Ink Series: Women Writers on Obsession

Red Ink Series: Women Writers on Obsession

in Conversation">Julie Buntin, Vanessa Mártir, Piper Weiss, Jessie Chaffee and DéLana R.A. Dameron
in Conversation

By Literary Hub | November 7, 2018

Running Towards My Father

Running Towards My Father

On Marathons, Perfection, and the Impossibility of Intimacy

By Devin Kelly | June 16, 2017

Jonathan Lethem on Gambling, The American Left, and Formative Grief

Jonathan Lethem on Gambling, The American Left, and Formative Grief

"I’m forced to give you a glimpse of that deathly vacuum at the heart of my being"

By Dan Sheehan | October 19, 2016

Lily King and Margot Livesey on Loss, Inspiration, and Ambition

Lily King and Margot Livesey on Loss, Inspiration, and Ambition

Mercury and Euphoria in Conversation">The Authors of Mercury and Euphoria in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2016

The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer

The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Shares Her Five Favorite Fellow Obsessive Writers

By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz | December 23, 2015