• On the Lit Hub Podcast: Pulitzer Intrigue, Sinners and Vampires, and the NEA

    Featuring Marie-Helene Bertino, Meg Reid, and Drew Broussard

    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.

    This week saw the announcement of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes—which, if you’ve been following along at home, I had some questions regarding! Unsurprisingly, that’s also where we start the show this week. Then, Marie-Helene Bertino (Exit Zero) drops by to talk about vampires, Sinners, and the pitfalls of immortality, and Meg Reid of Hub City Writers wraps up with a helpful explainer of just what it means that the NEA has suddenly cancelled funding for non-profit presses and other arts organizations. No Pope stuff, though. Missed the filing deadline by a couple hours.

    * “Did the Pulitzer Board just overrule the Jury to give Percival Everett the prize?”
    * “Viola in Midwinter” by Marie-Helene Bertino (from our “One great short story…” series this month)
    * Sinners
    * Hub City Writers
    * the NEA Grant Termination Spreadsheet from Annie Dorsen


    The Lit Hub Podcast is a production of Lit Hub Radio and is available wherever you get your podcasts; music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn; Engineering and production by Stardust House.


    The Lit Hub Podcast
    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!





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