On the Lit Hub Podcast: Real Literary Hoaxes and the Abrams Union Drive
Featuring Nathan Connolly, James Folta, Shea Dunlop, Sarah Robbins, 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.
Mrs. Dalloway turns 100 this week and it has Drew thinking about old books—and, more specifically, discovering old books. After a lightly eerie reverie, he chats with Nathan Connolly of Dead Ink Books about the pleasures of running a small press and creating a real-life, real-time literary hoax with the Eden Book Society. (If you aren’t backing the 1993 collection on Kickstarter, do you even like literary joy?) Then, James Folta chats with Shea Dunlop and Sarah Robbins from Abrams about the in-process unionization vote at Abrams, their experience with a weird union-buster, what they’re reading, and why unions make us strong.
* Mia Manzulli on teaching Mrs. Dalloway to high schoolers in 2025
* 100 covers of Mrs. Dalloway
* Dead Ink Books
* The Eden Book Society — 1993 on Kickstarter
* James’ “The Abrams Union wants a “more equitable, ethical, and transparent” publisher.”
* The Abrams Union on Instagram
* “The Persuaders: Workers Wanted A Union. Then The Mysterious Men Showed Up.” by Dave Jamieson on HuffPost
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.
