A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief: Before the ghost of Sylvia Plath haunted the yellow house on the bluff in my novel White Rabbit, she haunted me. I was a twenty-four-year-old graduate student plagued by the loss of my… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

Television to the Rescue! Camille Acker on the Craft Potential of TV: This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have always loved television, but as a kid, television was the “idiot box.” According to experts, this device could… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work: Edwidge Danticat’s new book, Dèy, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about favorite characters, writing advice, writer’s block, and more. * Who do you… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo: I didn’t care about turning forty. When fifty rolled around, I celebrated. At 55, my neighbor took a picture of me under a matching speed limit sign and we both laughed. Then came… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism