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Mitchell S. Jackson on ‘Stitching Together Imagined Communities’
Mitchell S. Jackson’sSurvival Math blows past our usual assumptions of how intimate a book can be, positioning its readers as complicit family members, embeds, neighbors, jurors, friends, protestors,...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer
If you ask me, every season is a good season for reading. But there’s something about summer that particularly begs a reading list—the long days, the long weekends, the promise of beaches and poolsides...
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“I Am Black and Reflective.” Keith S. Wilson Talks to Jericho Brown
Poets Jericho Brown and Keith S. Wilson sat down to talk about influences, poetics, and more in their new collections, The Tradition and Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love. * Jericho Brown: I am particularly...
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Cover Reveal: Freeman’s California Issue
John Freeman: Take me into the Salu lab. What happens when you receive a commission for something like the Power issue, or this upcoming one on California? I picture an underground bunker with Minority...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Love Island, Ocean Vuong, and L.A. Noir
Because it’s June and therefore it’s illegal to be straight, I’ve been listening to Carly Rae Jepsen’s latest album Dedicated, and nothing else, nonstop since it dropped last month—a time period that...
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On Movies and How to Write About Them
Lili Anolik and Geoff Dyer got together to discuss old movies and new books (their own, Hollywood’s Eve and Broadsword Calling Danny Boy respectively). * Lili Anolik: In 1941, Preston Sturges made...
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Robert Macfarlane: “I Wanted the Reader to Undertake a Descent into the...
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul Paul Holdengraber speaks with Robert Macfarlane about his new book, Underland, the pleasures and necessities of walking, the threshold experience of the...
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Lit Hub Daily: June 24, 2019
TODAY: In 1876, a review of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published by Chatto & Windus in London) appears in a British magazine, six months before the illustrated edition is published...
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Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced
Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon are two authors with a background of displacement. Mohamed, a British-Somali novelist, was born in Hargeisa (now in the Republic of Somaliland) and moved to England...
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Lit Hub Daily: July 1, 2019
TODAY: In 1804, French novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her nom de plume George Sand, is born. Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: a conversation on what it means to be displaced....
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10 Books You Should Read This July
Svetlana Alexievich trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Random House) If God existed, or had an ear, she might listen the...
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Jhumpa Lahiri and Hari Kunzru Reflect on America’s Immigration Crisis
As America marks this July 4th holiday, an outcry on immigration is leading to national headlines, including from a congressional delegation that visited an immigration detention center in El Paso,...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019, Part 2
Well, we’ve done it. For better or worse, we’ve made it halfway through 2019. So now that you’ve read all of the books we anticipated in the first half of the year (right?), it’s time for a new list to...
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David Ulin on the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Los Angeles
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with David Ulin, writer, and former book critic of the Los Angeles Times, about the dramatic changes in Los Angeles, the literature...
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Chuck Wendig on the Time He Enraged a Bunch of Tolkienites
What was the first book you fell in love with? Certainly it’s hard to say, for sure. I’ve loved books for so long! I remember a book called Our Universe, from National Geographic, which was this big...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Midsommar, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shirley Jackson
Heat makes me less inclined to stick with books that don’t immediately grab me (wait, I think I just figured out what a beach read is), so I have started a lot of books this month, and also cast them...
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In Which Colson Whitehead is Highly Concerned with the Exploration of Inner...
Colson Whitehead’s newest novel, The Nickel Boys, tells the story of two boys who are sent to a hellish reform school in Florida during the era of Jim Crow. Available now from Doubleday. * Who do you...
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John Waters on Working for Mary Oliver in Her Bookstore
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber and John Waters discuss his new memoir, Mr. Know-It-All (or as he describes, a “self-help book for lunatics,” what he’s reading this...
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Borscht Beach: Andy Sweet’s Iconic South Beach Photography
The following are selections from Shtetl in the Sun, a new collection of Andy Sweet’s documentation of the vanishing elderly Jewish communities of South Beach, including previously unseen work. All...
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If You Can’t Go to a Swimming Pool Right Now, Here Are Some Photographs
The following are from The Swimming Pool in Photography, an exploration of the cultural history of the swimming pool. 4th May 1961: A submerged car which its drunken owner ‘parked’ in a swimming pool...
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