• Indie Booksellers and Lying Liars: This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast

    Featuring Lefty Booksellers, Dodgy Paperbacks, and Some Thoughts on Fact-Checking

    A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard.

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    It’s a bookseller-heavy episode this week—just in time to start thinking about shopping local/indie for your holiday shopping needs…

    • Drew expands on his recent piece about the low-quality paperbacks suddenly showing up in bookstores

    • Calvin Kasulke talks to Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press about his leftist press taking ownership of Autumn Leaves, the legendary indie bookstore in Ithaca, NY

    • Maris Kreizman drops in to discuss her latest column on the need for better fact-checking

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    The Lit Hub Podcast is a production of Lit Hub Radio and is available wherever you get your podcasts; music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn; Engineering and production by Stardust House


    The Lit Hub Podcast
    The Lit Hub Podcast
    A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests!





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