It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

It’s Best-of Season on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring members of the Lit Hub staff on favorite reads of 2025!

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 12, 2025

Six Writers on the Most Surprising Parts of Their Writing Routines

Six Writers on the Most Surprising Parts of Their Writing Routines

How Shelby Van Pelt, Tracy K. Smith, and More Get Words on the Page

By Literary Hub | December 12, 2025

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

In Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | December 12, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

By Maris Kreizman | December 11, 2025

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

Diana Arterian on Nadia Anjuman’s Life, Resistance, and Poetry

From Smoke Drifts: Selected Poems

By Diana Arterian | December 11, 2025

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

What Happens When Gen Z Encounters Catullus’s Filthiest Poem?

“Reading wakes us up to love, culture, grief, war, a range of possibilities too vast to name, and also to great discomfort.”

By Rachel DeWoskin | December 10, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • The Rest of Our Lives
  • Call Me Ishmaelle
  • Homeschooled: A Memoir
  • The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB
  • Watching Over Her
  • American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

The Publishing Industry is Capricious... Gamble on Yourself

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | December 10, 2025

One Man’s Trash: Reflections on a Failed Novel

By Sheldon Costa | December 10, 2025

On Trying to Write About Disordered Eating in the Age of Millennial Therapy Culture

By Anna Rollins | December 10, 2025

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

Colm Tóibín on What It Means to Return to an Idea 20 Years Later

The Backstory and Creative Process Behind A Long Winter

By Colm Tóibín | December 9, 2025

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Am I a Better Ceramicist Than Novelist?

Brendan Mac Evilly on Figuring Out How To Be an Artist

By Brendan Mac Evilly | December 8, 2025

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

#ReadingAfrica: Three Literary Artists Celebrate African Visual Storytelling

Anthony Silverston Talks to Mark Modimola, Lisa Maria Burgess and Deena Mohamed

By Literary Hub | December 8, 2025

Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write

Laura Vanderkam on Making Time to Write

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | December 8, 2025

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

Short Story Advent Calendars & Remembering Tom Stoppard on The Lit Hub Podcast

Featuring Brittany K. Allen, Michael Hingston, Calvin Kasulke, Natalie Olsen, Olivia Rutigliano, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | December 5, 2025

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching <em>Survivor</em>

Sophie Newman on What You Can Learn About Writing by Watching Survivor

“As a writer, you cannot and should not shield your characters from being seen in all their messy glory.”

By Sophie Newman | December 5, 2025

Losing My Southern Accent and Searching for a Link to My Past

Losing My Southern Accent and Searching for a Link to My Past

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the Sound of Her Grandparents‘ Voices and Growing Up in North Carolina

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | December 4, 2025

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