What Do Americans <em>Really</em> Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

What Do Americans Really Want to Read? We (Might) Have the Answer

Tom Comitta Explores the Country’s Literary Imagination As Revealed Through Public Opinion Polls and Surveys

By Tom Comitta | June 4, 2025

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record

Aidan Ryan on Applying His Background in Fiction to the Challenges of Biography

By Aidan Ryan | June 4, 2025

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Learning Luxury: Exploring the History and Practice of High-End Hospitality

Maggie Stiefvater: “Here is another way luxury differs from wealth. Wealth does what you tell it to. Luxury surprises you.”

By Maggie Stiefvater | June 4, 2025

Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s <em>The Healers</em>

Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Healers

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | June 4, 2025

Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

Lisa Ko on Destroying Her Diaries

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | June 4, 2025

Yahdon Israel on <em>The Critic and Her Publics</em>

Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | June 3, 2025

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Susan Choi on Writing a Cross-Cultural Story of Mystery and Tragedy

By Jane Ciabattari | June 3, 2025

Four Great Sports Books That Go Way Beyond the Game

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Madeleine Thien on Writing a Love for This World

Madeleine Thien on Writing a Love for This World

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 2, 2025

Elissa Altman on Permission

Elissa Altman on Permission

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

By Memoir Nation | June 2, 2025

In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

Hannah Brooks-Motl on Insect Verses by John Clare, William Blake, David Seung, and More

By Hannah Brooks-Motl | June 2, 2025

Ten New Children's Books That Promise Page-Turning Adventures

Ten New Children's Books That Promise Page-Turning Adventures

For June, Caroline Carlson Recommends an Exciting Selection of (Mostly) Fantasy and Speculative Fiction For Young Readers

By Caroline Carlson | June 2, 2025

Love Comes Back Like a Murderer: Seven Poetry Books to Read This June

Love Comes Back Like a Murderer: Seven Poetry Books to Read This June

Christopher Spaide Recommends Benjamin Zephaniah, Taylor Portela, Ashley D. Escobar and More

By Christopher Spaide | June 2, 2025

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Fighting Words and Magical Romance

On the Lit Hub Podcast: Fighting Words and Magical Romance

Jenny Hamilton on romantasy and George M. Johnson on book bans

By The Lit Hub Podcast | May 30, 2025

Laura Rossi and Jo Reed on Recent Earphones Award Winners

Laura Rossi and Jo Reed on Recent Earphones Award Winners

worth your listening time

By Behind the Mic | May 30, 2025

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