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We Didn’t Ask, But Laszlo Krasznahorkai Recommended 8 Books Anyway
We asked beloved Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai (well, via his American publisher, New Directions) what his favorite short story collection was, for this feature. Nobody expected him to respond....
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#Families Belong Together: A Conversation
Writers Cristina Henriquez and Edwidge Danticat talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the urgent issue of keeping immigrant families together and resisting their mass incarceration...
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What We Loved This Week
In addition to all the obligatory (and exciting) World Cup-ing this week, I finally got around to reading Sweetbitter, because I heard there were some pretty good sex scenes inside. And well, I heard...
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Hari Kondabolu: On Racism in Post-9/11 New York
WS: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. Many of the books that have made the biggest difference in my life are the ones I first encountered in college. In fact, if I remember...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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10 Books You Should Read this July
Ashleigh Young, Can You Tolerate This? (Riverhead) In a book landscape of spectacle-driven nonfiction narratives, I am finding respite in Ashleigh Young’s perceptive and smart debut, Can You Tolerate...
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Big Waves, Short Stories, and Everything in Between
Tim Winton is the author of 29 books for both adults and children and has won Australia’s preeminent literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, four times. His latest book, The Shepherd’s Hut, is...
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Pamela Paul and Mira Jacob Talk Reboots and Superheroes
On this week’s podcast, writers Pamela Paul and Mira Jacob talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the literary side of reboots, comics, and superheroes. Editor of the New York Times...
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What We Loved This Week
I spent last weekend at my grandparents’ house by the Jersey shore, reading about a very different (and admittedly much more beautiful) coastline: the rugged cliffs and beaches of Daphne DuMaurier’s...
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Are Things Getting Better or Worse? A Conversation with Mike Pesca
Will Schwalbe: Hi, I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. Most booklovers have a go-to book or author when the weight of the world just gets a little too heavy to bear. I have one...
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N. K. Jemisin’s First Short Story Collection is Coming This Fall
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that the brilliant N.K. Jemisin, who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for both The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, and the Locus Award for her debut novel, The...
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Identity, Desire, Sex: On Breaking Taboo, in Memoir and in Fiction
Kamin Mohammadi first met Hanan Al Shaykh at the Jaipur Literary Festival in 2012. “I think on the first morning,” Kamin says, “I remember I ran up to you and wanted to kneel at your feet, I was so...
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Alexander Chee: Don’t Give in to That Feeling of Powerlessness
In this episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber reaches Alexander Chee in Italy and asks him about mentors (and mentoring), his favorite Italian writers, virtues great and small, and the...
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What We Loved This Week
This weekend I saw perhaps the strangest double bill of my relatively short life: Boots Riley’s debut film Sorry to Bother You and Skyscraper, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. (Okay, to be fair,...
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What Does It Mean To Be A Doctor and a Writer?
In this roundtable, four doctor-writers—Gavin Francis (Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body), Sandeep Jauhar (Heart: A History), Paul Seward (Patient Care: Death and Life in the...
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Edy Poppy Talks Sex, Love, and Boredom with Siri Hustvedt
“Edy Poppy’s Anatomy, Monotony. is a devilish hybrid. Part autofiction, part literary, cinematic, and musical dance of allusions, and part chronicle of the mute body’s aches and pains and lusts and...
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Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin on the Problem With Dead Girl Stories
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, writers Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin talk with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan about the appeal and popularity of stories that revolve...
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What We Loved This Week
This week I read Keith Gessen’s new novel A Terrible Country after being convinced to pick it up by his interview with Lauren Goldenberg in Jewish Currents. I hadn’t realized until then that this book...
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Sigrid Rausing: Write When You Can, and Don’t Worry About an Audience
Sigrid Rausing is the editor of Granta and the author of the memoir, Mayhem, available now from Vintage. * What do you always want to talk about in interviews but never get to? I always want to talk...
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Maeve Higgins Will Make You Laugh (and Cry) About Immigration
WS: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. When I first moved to New York, I found myself living in a one-bedroom at the mouth of the midtown tunnel. It was the mid-1980s and New...
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