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
The End-of-Summer Joy of Reading by a Motel Pool
Susan Harlan on One of Life's Simple Pleasures
By
Susan Harlan
| August 27, 2019
The Bittersweet Feeling of Reconnecting with a Forgotten Language
Susan Harlan on Rekindling an Old Friendship in the City of Lights
By
Susan Harlan
| August 12, 2019
Saying Goodbye to My Beloved
Local Bookstore
Susan Harlan Offers an Appreciation of Winston-Salem's Bright Leaf Books
By
Susan Harlan
| April 24, 2019
An Attempt to See Paris Through the Eyes of Georges Perec
Lunch on the Place Saint-Sulpice with My Literary Idol
By
Susan Harlan
| March 7, 2019
How to Read Caves
From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf
By
Susan Harlan
| January 19, 2018
Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?
On the Pleasures of Paris, City of Solitude and Poetry
By
Susan Harlan
| July 14, 2017
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
In Praise of the Book Tower
By
Susan Harlan
| June 17, 2015
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 Life
October 8, 2025
by
Daniel H. Wilson
The Enduring Appeal of a Shipwreck Mystery
October 8, 2025
by
Anbara Salam
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"King captures her guileless sense of awe with just a dusting of parody that never…"