Lena Dunham Takes to Her Bed to Promote Her Memoir, “Famesick.”
Forget demure conversations in spindly chairs. To promote “Famesick,” a new memoir, she’s taken to her bed and invited friends to jump in. Onstage.…
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Book Review: New Fantasy Books
Our columnist reviews this season’s new books.…
David Tennant, Riz Ahmed, Jodie Whittaker, David Harewood Among Stars Set for ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ West End Return
Iranian-German playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian have launched There & Then, an independent theatre company whose…
Ramona Ausubel’s Favorite Exercise for Getting Unstuck
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I read a finished book or story,…
Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet… Or All of the Above?
“This man was unique,” a famous Russian writer observed of Rasputin. “One of a kind, like a character…
On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)
L.A. gets rain. People don’t think of the rain in L.A. if they don’t live there. We get…
What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself
The following is from Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir by Leise Hook. …
God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception
Amidst the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first oral contraceptive in 1960, an ongoing—if surprising—conversation emerged…
Asif Kapadia Taking Over From Michael Apted to Conclude Landmark Brit Docuseries ‘7 Up’
Asif Kapadia is set to complete the final chapter in what has long been considered a landmark and…
ReelShort, Endemol Shine Brasil Launch Hit Microdrama ‘Married at First Sight’ in Brazil (EXCLUSIVE)
ReelShort and Endemol Shine Brasil have teamed up on the Brazilian adaptation of one of the microdrama platform’s…