The City of Good Death
There is one place in Kashi that everyone avoids. It is easy to find: walk to Mir ghat, descend those stone steps. Push through the crowds of people and drift toward the right as you go down, down,...
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Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize
Restless Books is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year will award $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation American...
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Lit Hub Recommends: The Mars Room, Spider-Man 2, and Fresh Off the Boat
It’s completely unfair to recommend a book that isn’t out until next spring, but this one is really worth it: mark your calendars for April 2019 and go get Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise. It’s a...
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The Bookstore Recommends: 10 Great Small Press Books You Should Read
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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Edmund White and Emily Temple on Literary Feuds, Social Media, and Our...
In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, writers Edmund White and Emily Temple talk to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about writers feuding with each other. To hear the full...
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Writing Women’s Pain: A Roundtable
We asked some of our favorite writers (listed below, with their latest books) to address what it means to write and research pain and to unpack the ways in which this influences the fiction and...
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Shobha Rao on Moving Between Cultures and Loving Little House on the Prairie
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. I believe that every book you read changes you, but some are so powerful that you remember the exact moment you...
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Writing Women’s Pain: Part Two of a Roundtable
We asked some of our favorite writers (listed below, with their latest books) to address what it means to write and research pain and to unpack the ways in which this influences the fiction and...
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Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You
Forthcoming from Soho Press in April 2019, Pola Oloixarac’s second novel, Dark Constellations, investigates humanity’s desire for knowledge, control, and evolutionary advancement from three different...
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Someday, Joyce Carol Oates Will Curl Up with a Cat and Read Finnegans Wake
Joyce Carol Oates newest book, Hazards of Time Travel, is available now from Ecco. * Who do you most wish would read your book? What an unexpected question! My truthful answer is—“I have no idea.”...
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Madeline Miller on Women’s Work, Translation, and Gender in The Odyssey
In this live episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, recorded at the 2018 Miami Book Fair, novelist Madeline Miller talks to hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about ancient Greek epic,...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Archives, Teen Capers, and Coffee Dates
There’s a lovely poem by Jean Valentine on the subway right now, and in addition to making me happier to get on the 1 train, it has also sent me back to Door in the Mountain, Valentine’s 2004 National...
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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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Announcing the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Arts Writing Grant Winners
The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2018 grants. The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure...
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Elizabeth Khuri Chandler Tells the Origin Story of Goodreads
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. In Hamlet, the character Polonius famously counsels his son Laertes, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” I’m...
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Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2018
Year-end lists, which seem to come out closer and closer to Halloween every year, can feel like a burden to reader and compiler alike: for the former, more books to feel guilty about not having read,...
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11 Books You Should Read This December
Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime (Basic Books) A few years ago, I sat on a grand jury for a month and was (naively) appalled by the number of defendants we were asked to indict for...
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10 Bookish Questions for the Great Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah’s latest novel, North of Dawn, is available now from Riverhead. * Who do you most wish would read your book? I would love readers not familiar with my other novels to read it, so the...
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Introducing the New Editor of The Yale Review: Meghan O’Rourke
After a year-long, national search, Peter Salovey, President of Yale University, has announced the appointment of Meghan O’Rourke—poet, memoirist, and editor—as the next editor of The Yale Review....
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Lit Hub Recommends: An Unexplained Death, The Favourite, and a Food Blog
I’ve been a Yorgos Lanthimos fan (a Fan-thimos, if you will) since I saw Dogtooth, which features my favorite dance scene in a movie since Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Add to that my...
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