The Humor of Devastation: A Conversation with Hannah Pittard

The Humor of Devastation: A Conversation with Hannah Pittard

Reading Time: 1 Min. IN THE SUMMER of 2016, novelist Hannah Pittard made a painful, world-altering discovery—that her then-husband was having an affair with her best friend. As a human being, she reeled; as a writer, she began to process the experience in the only way she knew how: by translating it onto the page. […]

Damascus James on Witnessing, Letter Writing, and Solitary Confinement

Damascus James on Witnessing, Letter Writing, and Solitary Confinement

Reading Time: 1 Min. In January 2023, people incarcerated throughout the state of Texas organized a collective hunger strike to demand better living conditions. Months before, Canada native Damascus James had relocated to Texas from New York City, and began to write letters to incarcerated people in the state in order to develop connections with […]

Mattie Lubchansky: Why Comics?

Mattie Lubchansky: Why Comics?

Reading Time: 1 Min. This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . I like to think I’m spectacularly good at having a bad time. A few years ago, I was asked by my best friend from college to be his best man. What an honor! Except I was in […]

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