Hope for Planet Earth: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change
It can be hard to confront the daily background hum of absolutely dire climate news. Through willful ignorance, political cowardice, and corporate greed we’ve all but insured our grandchildren life on...
View Article“Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from...
Spring is the migration season for storks and cranes. In April, the trees and rooftops of Ukraine, from the Carpathian mountains to the Zaporozhian steppe become the nesting ground for birds. This...
View ArticleInterview with an Indie Press: Grid Books
Elizabeth Murphy, editor and publisher of Grid Books—an independent press created in 2003 “to provide a forum for older poets who are sometimes overlooked by the current marketplace”—talks about their...
View ArticleWhat It Means to Anthologize the Literature of Abortion
About twenty years ago, I had an abortion and discovered that literary writing exploring the experience was not easy to find. So I began editing an anthology of literature about this major, suppressed...
View Article‘Pemi Aguda on the Influence of Miami on Her Upcoming Novel
Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writer Fellowships program offers a life-changing experience to fresh literary voices. Through the generous sponsorship of the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at the Miami...
View ArticlePatrick McCabe Dreams of Driving an Excavator (or Being Bob Dylan’s Chauffeur)
Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan. He was a teacher and then he was not, having become a full-time writer. He is the author of The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Irish...
View ArticleA statement on retracting Jumi Bello’s essay.
Earlier this morning Lit Hub published a very personal essay by Jumi Bello about her experience writing a debut novel, her struggles with severe mental illness, the self-imposed pressures a young...
View ArticleExclusive cover reveal: Erika Wurth’s White Horse.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Erika T. Wurth’s literary horror novel White Horse, which will be published by Flatiron Books on November 1. In her big-publishing debut, Wurth, an urban...
View ArticleOn Assault, Memoir, Justice, and Time: A Conversation with Stephen Mills and...
This conversation discusses sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse, which experiences sit near the hearts of our memoirs. * After my memoir was published in the summer of 2020, I began to hear from...
View ArticleShelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company
Shelf Talkers is a new series at Lit Hub where booksellers from independent bookstores around the country share their favorite reads of the moment. The titles below are all available at Salisbury’s...
View ArticleOn the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction
I came to know, and admire, Eva Stachniak in a private online novelists’ group. Eva and I both write fiction set in the past, novels that amplify the voices of those who have been ignored or forgotten,...
View ArticleExclusive cover reveal: Animals, a new issue of Freeman’s.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for the latest issue of Freeman’s, “Animals,” which will be published by Grove Press in October. The issue, which will feature new work from Mieko Kawakami,...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance: Five Poems by Marjana Savka
On the eve of Ukrainian Orthodox Easter, the poet Marjana Savka posted a poem to her Facebook page about an army volunteer who has been struck down by missile fragments. Here lies the Lord. Slain in a...
View ArticleExclusive cover reveal: Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ross Gay’s new essay collection Inciting Joy, which will be published by Algonquin Books in October. Algonquin describes the book as an “intimate and...
View ArticleA Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing
In November of 2019, just months before COVID hit, I met Mesha Maren in person at the Miami Book Festival, in what would turn out to be my last in-person event for a while. Both of us had debut novels...
View ArticleOmer Friedlander and Joshua Henkin on Writing with a Sense of Place
I was sent Omer Friedlander’s debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, out of the blue by his editor Robin Desser. The truth is that several bouts of covid in my household and...
View ArticleJen Silverman on Re-reading, Making a Tarot Deck, and Other Kinds of Escape
Jen Silverman’s novel, We Play Ourselves, is out now in paperback from Random House, so we asked about their favorite books to give to friends, the best stories to revisit, and how they procrastinate....
View ArticleJon Mooallem Writes in the Morning (Before the World Snuffs Out His Brief...
Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large with The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other radio shows and magazines, including This American Life and Wired. His first book, Wild...
View ArticleSarah Ruhl Tries to Look at Grief Through the Lens of Form
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist and poet. She is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a Tony Award nominee. Her book of essays, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time...
View ArticleJean Hanff Korelitz on Being Allowed to Make Things Up
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel, The Latecomer, is out now from Celadon Books, so we asked about her writing routine, her inspirations, and the one thing she never gets to talk about in interviews. * Who...
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