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Ilya Kaminsky: ‘Fables Allow You to Break Bread With the Dead’
Published with permission from BAM and the National Book Foundation What is it about courage that astounds our ability to imagine it? Perhaps it’s because, in dire times, we’re told to forget we...
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On the Magic of Roya Marsh’s dayliGht
In her stunning debut, dayliGht written in protest to an absence of representation, Roya Marsh recalls her early life and the attendant torments of a butch Black woman coming of age in America. In...
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How Hannah Sullivan Reinvents the Long Poem for a Digital Age
Three Poems, Hannah Sullivan’s debut collection, which won the 2018 T.S. Eliot Prize, reinvents the long poem for a digital age. In this week’s episode of Well-Versed with FSG, celebrating National...
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The Best of the University Presses: 100 Books to Escape the News
The university press community has compiled an “Escape the News Reading List,” the brainchild of Cate Fricke, associate marketing director for publicity and promotions at Penn State University Press....
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Ocean Vuong on Salvaging the Texts of Our Ancestors
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Ocean Vuong takes the call from Paul Holdengraber to discuss his book, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, out now from Penguin Press. From the episode:...
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10 Books You Should Read This May
Adania Shibli trans. by Elisabeth Jaquette, Minor Detail (New Directions) Reading Adania Shibli is like stumbling on a colorist in a world which has been sketched in black and white. Her brief, poetic...
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On Kierkegaard, Authenticity, and How a Person Should Be
Søren Kierkegaard, the influential 19th-century Danish philosopher, has been the subject of many excellent biographies. But none, until Clare Carlisle’s new biography, Philosopher of the Heart, have...
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Fungi’s Lessons for Adapting to Life on a Damaged Planet
Merlin Sheldrake’s new book Entangled Life looks at the complex world of fungi, its adaptive ability, and its interconnectedness with all other forms of life. He spoke with Robert Macfarlane, author of...
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Have You Ever Wondered Who Was the First Person to Eat an Oyster?
Cody Cassidy is the author of Who Ate the First Oyster? The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History. Literary Hub spoke to Cassidy about some of his own “firsts.” * Literary Hub:...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Sebald, Nina Simone, and Top Chef
This weekend, for my husband’s birthday, I made my first two-layer cake, using this recipe for the base (it’s Deb forever, you guys all made your first mistake when you strayed from Deb, Deb would...
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The Enduring Impact of Jazz on American Film
Kevin Whitehead’s Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film, looks at a slice of film history through the lens of jazz music. He spoke to Literary Hub on occasion of the book’s...
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Steven Weber on Finding a Career in Audiobooks
AudioFile’s Josephine Reed spoke with actor and narrator Steven Weber. Steven is known for his roles in How to Get Away with Murder, Wings, and Indebted. He’s also narrated audiobooks by Harlan Coben...
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Carl Phillips and francine j. harris: Answering a Question That Can’t Be...
In this week’s episode of Well-Versed with FSG, poets Carl Phillips and francine j. harris discuss their bodies of work, the representation of people of color in poetry, and answering a question that...
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Emma Straub Wants to Abolish Reading-Related Guilt
Emma Straub’s novel All Adults Here is out now from Riverhead. We asked her about late-night writing, the music that she can’t live without, and the joy of reading the classics for the first time. *...
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The Best New Books to Read This Summer
There’s been plenty of discussion already (in the ambient Book Media sphere as well as in the Literary Hub slack) about how to approach the concept of Summer Reading this year. Yes, there’s a pandemic...
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Emerson Whitney on Heaven and Rewriting a Body
Emerson Whitney’s Heaven treats reparative work as sacred, much like the Kintsugi artists in Japan who repair broken pottery with gold. Whitney, also the author of Ghost Box, teaches in the BFA...
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9 New Books To Read in June
Sanaë Lemoine, The Margot Affair (Hogarth Press) The Margot Affair is that perfect mix of literary and entertaining, which was exactly what I needed this late spring: it’s the novel that has taken me...
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Defiance,” will take place online on June...
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Writing Across Time and Queer Generations
In a moment of ever-shifting histories, from pandemic to protest, authors Paul Lisicky (Later) and Cooper Lee Bombardier (Pass With Care) met in virtual conversation to talk about writing outside of...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Run the Jewels 4, Ava DuVernay, and Stanley Tucci
I know it’s all about Stanley Tucci these days, so here’s my recommendation: go to him through risotto. I’ve been meeting a friend for a social distancing movie and dinner night. Each week we make a...
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