Catherine Lacey (with Mary Gaitskill)
Welcome to the new season of The Writers Institute, the podcast from the New York State Writers Institute and Lit Hub. This is the first episode of five, and new episodes will come out on…
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Meet this year’s literary Guggenheim fellows.
For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of…
You can spend a night (or several) in the horny hockey cottage from Heated Rivalry.
One of the locations where the hit hockey romance Heated Rivalry was shot is available to rent, if…
Book Review: ‘Lázár,’ by Nelio Biedermann
“Lázár,” by Nelio Biedermann, is a multigenerational novel that spans the collapse of a monarchy, two world wars…
Book Review: ‘On the Calculation of Volume IV,’ by Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle’s cult hit series about a woman trapped in a time loop continues with a fourth volume.…
7 movies that were tragically cut from our Best Literary Film Adaptations bracket.
I’ve worked on a number of brackets now for Lit Hub, and I don’t think I’ve seem as…
What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Two
After a big first day of voting, we’ve got the results—you can see more exact percentages of how…
One great poem to read today: Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American…
Book Review: ‘A Terrible Intimacy,’ by Melvin Patrick Ely
A new book by the historian Melvin Patrick Ely draws on court records to highlight the complex relationships…
In ‘Famesick,’ Lena Dunham Diagnoses Celebrity, Illness and Herself
This unusually unfiltered memoir takes us to the hospital, to therapy and to the sometimes hostile set of…