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What Was It Like to Care About Books 20 Years Ago?
In search of some nostalgic holiday cheer, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell climb in the way back machine and time travel to 1997 with critic and editor Oscar Villalon and novelist Curtis...
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Our Favorite Literary Hub Stories from 2017
Emily Temple, Senior Editor Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway, Carole Burns Every love affair with a novel is personal. And like Burns, I read and reread the books that move me,...
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Mourning Sue Grafton
Legendary author Sue Grafton died Thursday night, at age 77. An announcement was made Friday by her daughter, Jamie Clark, via the writer’s Facebook page. “I am sorry to tell you all that Sue passed...
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Our Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017
We asked 50 poets and writers to recommend one book of poetry they loved in 2017. Their choices are below. The Respondents · Damiano Abeni · Kaveh Akbar · Dan Beachy-Quick · Dodie Bellamy · Charles...
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40 Overlooked Books from 2017, as Chosen By Booksellers
Simeon Marsalis, A Lie is to Grin As different as my experience was to the protagonist David’s, no other book I’ve read has better captured that particular, sharp, almost thorn-like confusion I felt...
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Listen to Ursula K. Le Guin on Celebrity Culture and Fiction vs. Fact
In this episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber talks to legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin about the blurring of fact and fiction, the problem with celebrities, and the anxiety of...
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Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan on Fake News, Truth-Telling, and What...
This is part two of a conversation between Margaret Atwood and Andrew O’Hagan from the closing event of the 2017 Vancouver Writers Festival. The topic of the conversation was the writer in the world....
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15 Books You Should Read This January
Thomas Pierce, The Afterlives (Riverhead) I’ve been eagerly awaiting Thomas Pierce’s first novel after loving his weird, charming debut collection, Hall of Small Mammals. Happily, The Afterlives is...
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Literary Color Lines: On Inclusion in Publishing
In this episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk about “sensitivity reads,” cross-cultural writing, and the lack of diversity in the publishing industry with author...
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The Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Titles of 2018
It may be uncouth to look forward to crime, but looking forward to crime writing, that’s a noble literary activity, surely. It’s January, which means we have many months of books to anticipate, a full...
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Repositories of Memory: On the Country House Novel
Writers Tessa Hadley and Lucy Hughes-Hallett have known each other for years, but agree that this is the longest and most enjoyable conversation they’ve yet had. It began with an exchange of emails...
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Listen to Nick Offerman Read A Denis Johnson Story
Denis Johnson’s final, posthumous collection The Largesse of the Sea Maiden hits shelves today, treating his enormous fan base to five previously uncollected stories. Penguin Random House has also...
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I Address My Prayer to Myself: Three Poems from Through Clenched Teeth
A year ago, I was also thinking a lot about inertia, and for longer than that, I’ve been thinking about the way beautiful things deserve to show through ugly things. Then, it felt like we were only...
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A Whole New Kind of Obscenity?
In episode 9 of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk with Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post Book World and Shanthi Sekaran, author of Lucky Boy, about obscenity,...
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Lifting Up Overlooked Authors: On Craft, Identity, and Insecurities
Writers often meet other writers through their work, falling in love as they read a book and getting to know the author by reaching out afterwards. In the case of Mira T. Lee, however, I was...
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17 Books You Should Read This February
Maggie O’Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am (Knopf) O’Farrell’s unusual and indelible memoir is told through 17 brushes with death, mainly her own but also those of the people closest to her, especially her...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Consuming This Weekend
This weekend, I will be watching the latest episodes of the two best shows on television (now and perhaps ever): RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars (season 3) and The Good Place. Probably I will do this in...
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What Ursula K. Le Guin Meant to Me: Four Writers Remember
Adrian McKinty “Le Guin raised questions in the fields of science fiction and fantasy that no one else was asking at the time.” In the summer of 1978 after a series of dull books I finally could take...
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Every Time We Put Pen to Paper, It is an Act of Protest
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate, hosted at powerHouse Arena. This dynamic series focuses on women writers, past and present. The name Red Ink brings to mind...
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Editorial Power Means Blowing Up the Machine from the Inside
Many of us aren’t surprised by the revelations of sexual misconduct and abuses of power that have recently come to light, and as editors, we have long expected similar reports of sexual discrimination...
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