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
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • I’m a Writer But
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Talk Easy
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
  • 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
  • Lit Hub Radio
    • The Lit Hub Podcast
    • The Critic and Her Publics
    • Awakeners
    • Fiction/Non/Fiction
    • I’m a Writer But
    • Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
    • Memoir Nation
    • First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
    • Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre
    • Talk Easy
  • Reading Lists
    • The Best of the Decade
  • Book Marks
    • Best Reviewed Books
  • CrimeReads
    • True Crime
    • The Daily Thrill
  • Log In
To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

For Freeman's, Garnette Cadogan on a Childhood Hiding Behind Fictions

By Garnette Cadogan | October 5, 2017

Flavor is a Language: An Interview with Mandy Aftel

Flavor is a Language: An Interview with Mandy Aftel

The Art of Flavor Co-Author Wants to Demystify Taste

By Garnette Cadogan | August 2, 2017

The Caribbean Belongs at the Center of Any Story about the Modern World

The Caribbean Belongs at the Center of Any Story about the Modern World

Garnette Cadogan in Conversation with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

By Garnette Cadogan | January 5, 2017

On Staying and Fighting, and Finding Strength in Poetry

On Staying and Fighting, and Finding Strength in Poetry

Garnette Cadogan Refuses to Give in to Despair

By Garnette Cadogan | November 11, 2016

By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

By Us, For Us: On New Orleans Bounce

Where Did the Projects Go? They Found a Home in Song

By Garnette Cadogan | October 12, 2016

Walking While Black

Walking While Black

Garnette Cadogan on the Realities of Being Black in America

By Garnette Cadogan | July 8, 2016

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Heart the Lover
  • What a Time to Be Alive
  • Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys
  • Pick a Color
  • The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora
  • Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
    • Kaley Cuoco is in a third crime show!October 8, 2025 by Olivia Rutigliano
    • Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien LifeOctober 8, 2025 by Daniel H. Wilson
    • The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck MysteryOctober 8, 2025 by Anbara Salam
    • Heart the Lover
    • The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
    • "King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"
  • 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