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Writing a Memoir to Honor My Younger Self
Casey Legler is an artist, restaurateur, former Olympic swimmer, and is the first woman hired by Ford Models to exclusively model men’s clothing. Godspeed is her memoir, available now from Atria. She...
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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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13 Books You Should Read This August
Cixin Liu, Ball Lightning, trans. Joel Martinsen (Tor Books) The English translation of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem introduced one of China’s most beloved science fiction writers to the...
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Terry Tempest Williams: “Beauty Is Not Optional, It Is a Strategy For Survival”
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul, Paul Holdengraber plays music from Terry Tempest Williams’ childhood and talks to her about beauty, the twin elements of joy and sorrow, and the power and...
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What We Loved This Week
This week I went back to my roots and got deep into a few great lit mags. The summer issue of The Stinging Fly was delivered in its usual white mailer (the same envelopes I packed myself ten years...
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Justin Phillip Reed, a Most Indecent Black Queer Poet
On the day I interviewed Justin Phillip Reed about his book Indecency (Coffee House Press 2018) at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis’ Grove gayborhood, he was wearing a baseball cap which said “Rough...
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Dag Solstad on the Accidental Politics of Novel Writing
Since 1965, the year his first collection of short stories appeared in Norway, Dag Solstad has been a towering force in Scandinavian letters. His nearly 30 books run the gamut from the autobiographical...
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Oscar Villalon and Arthur Phillips on Getting That Big, Fat Writer’s Advance
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, critic and editor Oscar Villalon and novelist and screenwriter Arthur Phillips discuss book advances and the effects of finances on creativity with...
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What We Loved This Week
For some inexplicable reason, the theme of this week became: Germany. I recently started watching Babylon Berlin, a politicalish crime drama set in the German capital in 1929, which I’ve been enjoying...
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When Kevin Kwan Realized He Could Be Funny
WS: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. I’m not one of those readers who feels compelled to visit the places where my favorite books are set. When I’ve tried, my attempts have...
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Deborah Eisenberg: “It Might Be Time To Rely More Heavily On Our Irrational...
In this episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with Deborah Eisenberg on “Bartleby the Scrivener,” the dire political state we live in, the virtue (and adventure) that lies in...
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What We Loved This Week
This week, I’ve been enjoying Ian Smith’s debut mystery, The Ancient Nine. While I normally stay far away from anything with conspiracies in it, this tale of Harvard secret societies has me hooked,...
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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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Gary Shteyngart: Middle-Aged People Need Weird Hobbies to Exercise Their...
Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success is now available. * Who do you most wish would read your book? My shrink, for sure. He always tells me if I’ve been honest with myself after I he reads my books and if I...
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Nathaniel Rich and Juliana Spahr: As the World Burns, Trump Tweets
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist and journalist Nathaniel Rich and poet and activist Juliana Spahr discuss writing about climate change and ecological destruction with hosts...
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15 Books You Should Read in September
Bonnie Chau, All Roads Lead to Blood (Santa Fe Writer’s Project) “They’re your people,” he said. “It’s alienating,” I said. But I didn’t know if they were the aliens or if I was the alien. In Bonnie...
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Lit Hub Recommends
I would be remiss if, for this inaugural Lit Hub Recommends, I did not recommend my absolute favorite cultural thing, which is not any book or important work of modern art but rather Buffy the Vampire...
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Amanda Stern On Anxiety, Becoming a Writer, and Rilke!
WS: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. From time to time I have a terrifying dream. I call it the Reader’s Nightmare. I’m in a busy airport, and they’ve announced my flight....
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Interview with a Bookstore: Cape Town’s Book Lounge
Book Lounge has been named the best independent bookstore in South Africa for three years running and has developed a cult following not only in Cape Town, but around South Africa as well. We spoke...
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How Does a Historian of War Sustain Any Faith in Humanity?
One day I took the train to see historian Antony Beevor in rural Kent. On the drive to his place from Bekesbourne Station, through country lanes, we passed “Oswalds,” the house where Joseph Conrad had...
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