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Drumroll, please: it’s our 38 favorite books of 2022! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“Vertigo is the most overrated piece of shit.” A late conversation with Stephen Sondheim about his favorite (and most overrated) books and movies. | Lit Hub
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Julia Sirmons considers the thrill of watching a writer develop before our eyes in Annie Ernaux’s The Super Years. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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What Frida Kahlo saw in the orchid: “Kahlo reminds us that in gestation, plant cultivation, and the larger human condition, we often veer from the mechanical to the sexual, from the scientific to the sentimental.” | Lit Hub Nature
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Cliff Bleszinski reflects on finding happiness (and eventual career success) as a lifelong gaming nerd. | Lit Hub
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Jane Smiley talks to Jane Ciabattari about the process of writing a historical mystery novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Rachel Vorona Cote considers the “indiscreet” biographies of Lytton Strachey. | Lapham’s Quarterly
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“There’s this unfortunate rhetorical shift that has happened in which anyone who talks about pandemic shit enters into an awful nagging-wife trope.” Lydia Kiesling on RSV and the way we talk about parenting in a pandemic. | The Cut
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“Poetry, for him, is the language the heart speaks not when it reaches for some externalized divinity but when it seeks to understand itself.” Eliza Griswold on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s contemporary spirituality. | The New Yorker
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Can you match the literary rejection to the writer who received it? | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
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Rye White reports from the HarperCollins picket line. | n+1
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“There is relief in reading her poetry, and luxuriating in the stretched seconds of her fecund verse.” Remembering Bernadette Mayer. | London Review of Books
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“The ability to bend an inch at a time while seeming to stand up straight is a useful and gendered skill.” Isabel Kaplan on dating (and not dating) another writer. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: David G. Myers on the virtues of humility • A literary narrative of blank space • Read from Jane Smiley’s latest novel, A Dangerous Business
