Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

Canine Charms: Markus Zusak on Rescuing a Dog and Naming It After a Character in His Fiction

How Reuben the Rottweiler Shepherd Mix Jumped from Page to Life

By Markus Zusak | January 21, 2025

Lee Wind on Creating the Heroes You Want to See in the World

Lee Wind on Creating the Heroes You Want to See in the World

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | January 21, 2025

David Wroblewski on Writing by Brute Force

David Wroblewski on Writing by Brute Force

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 21, 2025

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

Featuring Julie Phillips, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone

By The Lit Hub Podcast | January 17, 2025

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Aria Aber, Y2K, Pico Iyer, and More

By Book Marks | January 17, 2025

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

Best Reviewed
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  • House of Day, House of Night
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  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

“We’re Not Living Right.” On the Failed Human Efforts to Conquer the Desert

By Kyle Paoletta | January 17, 2025

Sweet Yet Versatile: In Praise of the Magnificent Melon

By Caroline Eden | January 17, 2025

Erika Swyler on Worldbuilding as Set Design

By Erika Swyler | January 17, 2025

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

The Unsolved Tale of a British Slave Ship’s Uprising and Shipwreck

James H. Sweet on the Mysteries of the “Black Prince” and the Complex History of Anticolonial Mutinies

By James H. Sweet | January 17, 2025

How to Talk About Your Own Book

How to Talk About Your Own Book

Maris Kreizman’s Advice (to Herself) on Self-Promotion

By Maris Kreizman | January 16, 2025

We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

We, the First Readers: On What It Means to Publish a Book

Publishing Legend Luis Schwarcz Considers the Nature of His Calling

By Luis Schwarcz | January 16, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“It reads like the unfinished, damaged novel that it is.”

By Book Marks | January 16, 2025

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry

By Andy Corren | January 16, 2025

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

A Childhood Under Siege: What It Means to Grow Up as a Black Boy in Suburban America

Lee Hawkins: “Slowly, it began to register that being Black rarely meant freedom.”

By Lee Hawkins | January 16, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Aria Aber Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Han Kang, Isabella Hammad, Alice Notley, and Others

By Diana Arterian | January 16, 2025

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