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James Tate Hill

James Tate Hill
James Tate Hill is the author of a memoir, Blind Man’s Bluff (W. W. Norton, 2021). His fiction debut, Academy Gothic, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. He serves as fiction editor for Monkeybicycle and a contributing editor for Lit Hub, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column.


The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

James Tate Hill on the Hard Realities of Balancing the Personal and the Creative
August 9, 2021  By James Tate Hill
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My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

James Tate Hill on the Way We Listen to Contemporary Memoir
August 3, 2021  By James Tate Hill
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5 Great Debut Memoirs to Listen to While You’re Traveling

James Tate Hill Recommends Lauren Hough, Gina Frangello, and More
May 24, 2021  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobooks for Celebrating the Stories of Trailblazing Women

James Tate Hill Recommends Elizabeth Blackwell,
Cicely Tyson, and More
April 5, 2021  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobook Essay Collections Ideally Suited to Your Quarantine Walks

James Tate Hill Recommends Melissa Faliveno, Alice Wong, and More
January 28, 2021  By James Tate Hill
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Great Holiday Audiobooks for Young Readers

From Neil Gaiman to Geogre M. Johnson and More
December 18, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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Danger and Depth in Literary Thrillers: This Month’s Audiobook Recommendations

James Tate Hill: "Who needs more danger in 2020?"
November 23, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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Five Audiobooks That Might Be Good For a Laugh This Week

James Tate Hill with the Recommendations We Need
November 11, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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In Honor of the #BlackoutBestsellerList, 5 Audiobooks by Black Women

From Brit Bennett to Samantha Irby to Natasha Trethewey
August 6, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobooks For the Bereft Sports Fan

From the NCAA to Andre the Giant to Diana Nyad
June 29, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobook Story Collections Offering Quick Literary Escape

From Rural Australia to Urban Fairytales, Short Stories Can Be a Break From the News
June 2, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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5 Debut Novels to Listen To
in Quarantine

From Quiet Vulnerability to Wilderness Survival
April 28, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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5 True Crime Audiobooks to Get You Through to Spring

From Oil Country Murder to Truth-Telling Memoir
February 28, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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5 Great Audiobooks About Iconic Musicians

Prince, Janis, Karen, and More...
January 24, 2020  By James Tate Hill
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Audiobooks Are Very Easy to Gift-Wrap: Your Last-Minute Holiday Recs

James Tate Hill Suggests Some Quick and Easy Stocking Stuffers
December 18, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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5 Small Press Audiobooks To Give As Gifts This Year

From Two Dollar Radio to the University of Texas Press
November 25, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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5 Halloween Audiobooks to Listen to While You Hide From Children

Feel the Fear, from The Omen to Jenny Slate
October 31, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobooks to Help With Those End-of-Summer Blues

From Anderson Cooper to the World of Truffles, and More
August 28, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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5 Great Audiobooks For That Summer Road Trip

From Disneyland to the Genteel South, Stories to Pass the Miles
August 2, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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5 Audiobooks with Complicated Parent-Child Relationships

James Tate Hill Does Not Recommend These as Gifts for Your Parents
June 11, 2019  By James Tate Hill
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