This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

Featuring Chloé Caldwell, Calvin Kasulke, K. Kerimian, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | February 14, 2025

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

From the Margins to the Mainstream: How the Synthesizer Conquered American Music

David Hajdu Explores the Creative and Technical Evolution of a Versatile Electric Instrument

By David Hajdu | February 14, 2025

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

A Selection of Gorey's Colorful, Curious Letters to Tom Fitzharris

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2025

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature

Sam Mills Makes the Case For Marrying the Literary and the Visual in Fiction and Nonfiction

By Sam Mills | February 14, 2025

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

Roisín O’Donnell on Developing a Short Story into a Novel

By Roisín O'Donnell | February 14, 2025

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

How Systemic Racism Leads to a Lifetime of Self-Imposed Isolation For Black Americans

Chad Sanders on Learning to Process the Societal and Psychological Effects of Anti-Blackness

By Chad Sanders | February 14, 2025

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  • Exit Party
  • Fallow
  • Our Noble Selves
  • Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy
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“Joined To All The Living There Is Hope,” a Poem by Jonathan Fink

By Jonathan Fink | February 14, 2025

Memories of a Military Coup: Making Sense of a Vanishing Haitian Heritage

By Rich Benjamin | February 13, 2025

Arctic Rush: Inside the 19th-Century Craze to Reach the North Pole

By Erling Kagge | February 13, 2025

What Our First and Last Words Reveal About the Way We Express Ourselves

What Our First and Last Words Reveal About the Way We Express Ourselves

Michael Erard Explores the Science Behind What We Say at the Very Beginning and End of Our Lives

By Michael Erard | February 13, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Her books for adults are rich and complex, revealing the stickiness of human coexistence.”

By Book Marks | February 13, 2025

Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s <em>There’s No Turning Back</em>

Antifascist, Feminist, Timeless: On Alba de Céspedes’s There’s No Turning Back

Ann Goldstein: “Even if the world has changed, her characters’ struggles with becoming themselves continue to be familiar.”

By Ann Goldstein | February 13, 2025

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Getting Rid of Book Blurbs? Easier Said Than Done

Maris Kreizman on One of Publishing’s Eternal Inevitabilities

By Maris Kreizman | February 13, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Niall Williams, Mary Oliver, Muriel Spark, and Others

By Diana Arterian | February 13, 2025

Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and the Tech Oligarchs

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 13, 2025

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Looking the Palestinian in the Eye

Nicki Kattoura on Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims”

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2025

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