Literary Hub
Literary Hub
  • Craft and Criticism
    • Literary Criticism
    • Craft and Advice
    • In Conversation
    • On Translation
  • Fiction and Poetry
    • Short Story
    • From the Novel
    • Poem
  • News and Culture
    • History
    • Science
    • Politics
    • Biography
    • Memoir
    • Food
    • Technology
    • Bookstores and Libraries
    • Film and TV
    • Travel
    • Music
    • Art and Photography
    • The Hub
    • Style
    • Design
    • Sports
  • BUY A HAT
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • Beyond the Page
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Thresholds
    • The Cosmic Library
    • Culture Schlock
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • Craft and Criticism
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • News and Culture
  • Lit Hub Radio
  • Reading Lists
  • Book Marks
  • CrimeReads
  • Log In
This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

This is How to Turn a Great Short Story into a Great TV Show

On the Promising Pilot of George Saunders’s Sea Oak

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

The author of Border on art as social change

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

The author of To Be A Machine on learning to write like himself

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

The author of Her Body and Other Parties tells us about her favorite stories

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Keeper
  • The Life You Want
  • The News from Dublin: Stories
  • Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family's Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
  • Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team
  • A Good Person

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'Write What You Know' is the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Min Jin Lee

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Lisa Ko

By Emily Temple | November 8, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Danez Smith

Meet National Book Award Finalist Danez Smith

The author of Don't Call Us Dead on editing, performance, and instinct

By Emily Temple | November 7, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elliot Ackerman

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elliot Ackerman

The author of Dark at the Crossing on love, war, and writing

By Emily Temple | November 7, 2017

The Weirdness of Promoting a Book in the First Year of Trump

The Weirdness of Promoting a Book in the First Year of Trump

11 Writers on What if Felt like to Shill for Literature in 2017

By Emily Temple | November 6, 2017

Our Master List of Reading Lists for the Year of Trump

Our Master List of Reading Lists for the Year of Trump

Or: the Many, Many Books We've Recommended This Year

By Emily Temple | November 6, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Leslie Harrison

Meet National Book Award Finalist Leslie Harrison

The author of The Book of Endings on grief and great poetry

By Emily Temple | November 6, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Shane McCrae

Meet National Book Award Finalist Shane McCrae

The author of In the Language of My Captor on poetry and persona

By Emily Temple | November 6, 2017

10 Songs for Franz Kafka's <em>The Trial</em>

10 Songs for Franz Kafka's The Trial

Playlist for a Bureaucratic Nightmare!

By Emily Temple | November 3, 2017

« First‹ Previous868788899091929394Next ›Last »
Page 90 of 107
    • The Best Psychological Thrillers of April 2026April 9, 2026 by Molly Odintz
    • Connor Martin on Writing Spy Thrillers Grounded in Real-World Foreign PolicyApril 9, 2026 by Connor Martin
    • The Unsolved, Untold Mystery of Globemaster 49-244April 9, 2026 by Tod Robberson
    • The Keeper
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "rench bring us directly into her characters heads The mystery is as much about their…"
  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member

  • If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.