Giving Up on The New York Times and Remembering Literary Twitter on 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! Hosted by Drew Broussard.

A time of celebration is now upon us: the literary awards year has closed, which means that it’s basically gravy from here til the end of the year. That’s right, with the National Book Awards this week, we really see the end of the road for 2025 and now we can all just chill out a bit. Right? Right?? (plus a shout-out to the Goldsmiths and Cercador Prizes, two lesser-known prizes that you should all be following.)

Anyway, in the spirit of celebration, James Folta and Oliver Scialdone drop in to talk about the latest Literary Bracket (“What Was Literary Twitter?”, running now through next Tuesday) and to eulogize those heady days of Lit Twit. Then, Peter Coviello chats with Drew about his piece for the site “Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani” and expounds on why it is we need to be much more wary of the things elite institutions are trying to sell us.

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