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It's a big episode this week, because it is raining in New York (finally!) and we just have a lot of cool stuff to share.
• Jessie Gaynor drops in to chat about having ChatGPT attempt classic poetry and the dangers of AI-assisted art
• Drew talks with The Public Theater's Jack Phillips Moore about the latest revival of Gatz, a verbatim adaptation of The Great Gatsby
• Jonny Diamond celebrates a year of literary assholes with Kristen Arnett and drops a live "Am I the Literary Asshole?" question on our columnist
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Samantha Harvey's Orbital won the Booker Prize! Next week, it's the National Book Awards! It's cold and flu season! Gosh, the year is really flying by.
• Jessie Gaynor talks with Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood about their piece on the Nancy Drew Convention and the sleuth's enduring appeal
• Ryan Chapman leaves a voicemail about his failed Booker prediction
• Drew reads some delightful answers to the Lit Hub Questionnaire from the 2024 National Book Award Finalists
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No theme music, so you know it's serious.
IN THIS EP:
• Jonny Diamond talks to Drew about some ways that Lit Hub hopes to respond to the idea of a second Trump Presidency
• Drew sits down with Ryan Chapman (The Audacity) to get his thoughts on the 2024 Booker Prize in advance of his forthcoming Sewanee Review column—recorded live at one of Lit Hub's "10 of the Best Bookstores in the World," Rough Draft Bar & Books
• Lena Crown introduces the newest Lit Hub Radio show: Awakeners.
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Spooky season is officially over, which means it's Bookmatch time! Our friends at n+1 have launched their holiday fundraising book quiz once again—and this year, it coincides with a celebration of the magazine's twenty anniversary. It's the right moment to celebrate, so celebrate we shall...
• Jonny Diamond in conversation with n+1 co-editors Mark Krotov and Dayna Tortorici on the history and future of the little magazine and the new collection celebrating the magazine's last decade, The Intellectual Situation
• Brittany Allen on curating a sex-work-positive reading list after seeing Anora
• Drew urges everyone to vote—and to vote in such a way that takes care of your community
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It's a bookseller-heavy episode this week—just in time to start thinking about shopping local/indie for your holiday shopping needs...
• Drew expands on his recent piece about the low-quality paperbacks suddenly showing up in bookstores
• Calvin Kasulke talks to Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press about his leftist press taking ownership of Autumn Leaves, the legendary indie bookstore in Ithaca, NY
• Maris Kreizman drops in to discuss her latest column on the need for better fact-checking
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It's mid-October which means we are in the thick of spooky season—and we've got a spooky spectacular for you this week!
• Tune in to James Folta calling Literary Terrors Bingo live at the community center in Halloweentown
• Olivia Rutigliano drops in to talk to Drew about the strange similarities between the collapse of the publishing mid-list and the recent spate of streaming cancellations
• A conversation about reading weird books with Drew Broussard, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone
MENTIONED:
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman • Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield • Earthlings by Sayaka Murata • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth • Bizarre Publishing House • Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram • Revelator by Daryl Gregory • Curses by George Wylesol
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Mixed and Engineered at Stardust House
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As part of The Issues 2024, this episode is largely about unions and labor—but also, a little bit more about romance books because it turns out... people really like romance books!
Lit Hub EIC Jonny Diamond talks with Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, about the challenges facing organized labor in the 2020s but also the still-young history of the labor movement in America
Drew Broussard and McKayla Coyle talk about getting into reading romance novels
Alexandra Kleeman offers an elegy for the late Robert Coover
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Production and Engineering by Stardust House
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
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What's with all the romance-specific bookstores opening around the country? Have you ever read any translated true crime? And what is horror as a genre, anyway?
A romance-bookstore-roundtable with Emily Ezell (Blush & Bashful Books, Hopkinsville KY), Leah Koch (The Ripped Bodice, LA & NYC), and Mel Saavedra (Steamy Lit, Deerfield Beach, FLY)
CrimeReads's Molly Odintz on "True Crime in Translation: A Reading List"
A sneak peak of Voyage Into Genre's upcoming horror episode, feat. CJ Leede and Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Production and Engineering by Stardust House
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
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It's Banned Books Week! There's a new Sally Rooney book! What a week!
Brittany K. Allen talks to host Drew Broussard about Sally Rooney Mania
Calvin Kasulke talks to librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds about banned books, libraries, and fighting back against attempts at oppression
Maris Kreizman stops by with a peek into her latest column
BANNED BOOK RESOURCES:
FReadom Fighters
Advice on writing to elected officials or your local newspaper
Advocate for School Libraries
Anti-Censorship Toolkit from Book Riot
Librarian Amanda Jones's story of fighting back and suing her tormentors
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Production and Engineering by Stardust House
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
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This week:
James Folta on "Meet the writer who added 'lol' to the end of every sentence of In Search of Lost Time"
Dan Sheehan talks to Huda Fakhreddine about "Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide"
Here's a link to the full text of the lol-ed version of In Search of Lost Time.
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Production and Engineering by Stardust House
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
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This week:
A Conversation on Lists with Jonny Diamond & Emily Temple
17 Novels You Should Read This Fall
"Am I the Literary Asshole?" with Kristen Arnett
An Introduction from the Host
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
Production and Engineering by Stardust House
A Lit Hub Radio Podcast
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Welcome to The Lit Hub Podcast!
Hosted by LH podcasts editor Drew Broussard, this new weekly show goes behind the scenes at Lit Hub, diving deeper into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful in literary culture. Featuring appearances by Lit Hub staff, recurring columnists like Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman, and special guests talking about the news of the day and so much more.
New episodes every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts.
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