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What’s It Really Like to Have Your Book Made Into a Movie?
In episode 11 of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell offer a very Lit Hub take on Academy Awards season. What’s the process really like when a book becomes a movie? How does...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
Because I am incapable of loving anything a normal and judicious amount, I will be attending my third screening of Phantom Thread on Saturday night, this time with a live score performed by the London...
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Rough Drafts: Writers at Work at the Millay Colony
In the first of a series looking at the work being done at writing and artists’ residencies across America (and beyond!), we’re checking in with the Millay Colony for the Arts in upstate New York...
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15 of the Creepiest Children in Literature
Let’s face it: children can be pretty scary. Think about it: they’re like regular humans, only tiny, with slightly out-of-proportion heads and T-Rex arms. (Your kid is great, though.) Of course, some...
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Wayne Koestenbaum on Sontag, Proust, and Quote-o-Mania
In Paul Holdengraber’s conversation with Wayne Koestenbaum, the two discuss working in libraries, reading Proust for the first time, and what Holdengraber calls their shared “quote-o-mania.” After...
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15 Books You Should Read This March
Go Home!, ed. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (The Feminist Press) “Where is it that Japanese-Chinese-Scottish-English-American people come from?” Rowan Hisayo Buchanan wonders after being yelled at by a...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
The new Ottessa Moshfegh galley is finally mine, and I plan to make short work of it this weekend. At the Whitney, I’m planning to see “Experiments in Electrostatics: Photocopy Art from the Whitney’s...
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10 Great Small Press Books Worth Picking Up
As the nation’s only nonprofit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
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Vita Sackville-West Wrote a Very, Very Tiny Novel for the Queen’s Dollhouse
The story Vita Sackville-West wrote for the library of Queen Mary’s Dollhouse is a jeu d’esprit. Vita was not a humorist, nor was she much given to whimsy, but her teasing children’s tale of a...
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Samanta Schweblin May Not Be Ready to Read Moby-Dick
Samanta Schweblin’s acclaimed novel, Fever Dreams, is available in paperback tomorrow, March 6. * What was the first book you fell in love with (why)? Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian. I was 12 years old...
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I Call Your Name Whenever I Can: The Letters of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde
Poets and activists Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969 and began exchanging letters five later, a correspondence which continued until the year before Parker’s death. While their letters...
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10 Fictional Homes We Want to Live In
Literature, they say, opens doors. Which sounds like a good thing—but does anyone ever stop to ask exactly which doors are being opened? If they’re the doors to the many great homes of literature (yes,...
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Gun Violence, #NeverAgain and the Power of Teenage Protest
In mid-February, 17 people—students and adults—were shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the aftermath, surviving students have led a powerful campaign for gun control....
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
I’m spending my weekend in a convention center in Tampa (if you are at AWP . . . please . . . visit us at booth 804 . . .) and at the 1,000 accompanying parties (we’re having one tonight; the totes...
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Five Poems from Women of Resistance
Rib Hope Wabuke between his stomach and his heart that place taken from other animals and eaten with barbecue and applesauce licked clean and then thrown to the dog __________________________________...
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How Many Must Die? Teachers Reflect on Gun Violence and Student Protest
Today marks one month since 17 people were murdered by a weapon of war in a Parkland, Florida high school. As students across America march out today in remembrance and protest, we asked teachers from...
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Navigating an Author-Reader Relationship as Father and Son
Jackson Holbert, a poetry editor of The Adroit Journal, speaks with his father Bruce Holbert about his new novel, their family and work habits, and what it’s like reading each other’s work. * I...
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Remembering Stephen Hawking: Poet, Astrophysicist, Rock Star
Stephen Hawking, one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, died yesterday at the age of 76. So much more than a groundbreaking astrophysicist, Hawking presented the vast and complex...
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Off the Clock: What the Lit Hub Staff is Doing This Weekend
Being, as a rule, quite fond of amoral teens on screen, I am plotting with a girlfriend to go see Thoroughbreds this weekend, despite its admittedly middling reviews. Otherwise, I plan to be hiding...
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In Which Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin Discuss Carson McCullers (and...
8/17/49 [Rome] Dear Jay: Whatever decision you and Carson reach about the two prefaces [for Reflections in a Golden Eye] is O.K. with me. My feeling was, when I read over the first version, that I...
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