August 18 – 22, 2025
- The pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA
- Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon
- Angelina Mazza makes the case for Goodreads
Support Lit Hub.
Finding Love (and Marriage) by Accident in Upstate New York
Aileen Weintraub on the Time She Met Her Future Husband in the Grocery Store
Visiting My Feminist Foremothers in a Mostly Inaccessible City
Victoria Reynolds Farmer on Virginia Woolf, Aphra Behn, and a Trip to London
When London Got the Marilyn Monroe Fever
“And so started a summer of Brits, young and old, doing everything they could to be just like Marilyn.”
“Deciding to Put My Writing Out There Has Changed My Life.” A Conversation with Jillian Luft
In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast
How Did a Fictionalized Leonard Cohen End Up in My Novel?
Francesca Giacco on Taking From Fact to Add to Fiction
Caroline Elkins on the Gruesome Rule of the British Empire
This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
The Simple Writing Prompt That Launched R. Cathey Daniels’ Debut Novel
In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network
Cheryl Collins Isaac on Writing About Ballet, and the Intersection of Beauty and Pain
This Week from The Common Podcast
Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman, Read by Huw Parmenter and Sam Newton
All the love for Heartstopper’s Nick and Charlie
Steve Almond on the Myth of Reaganism
In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Gio Swaby on Portraiture that Uplifts Black Women
Celebrating Swaby's Loving, Attentive Practice
Digging Around in the Dirt: What Gardening Can Teach Writers
Catie Marron on Learning to Understand Soil
Does Care Require Sacrifice? On Suffering and Dignity in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or
Catherine Nichols Goes Looking for Kierkegaard and Finds an Unrequited Crush
Is The Godfather the Greatest Story of US Immigration Ever Committed to Film?
Laila Lalami in Conversation with Mychal Denzel Smith on the Open Form Podcast
Lessons in Courage from a Water Rescue Dog Named Al
Lynne Cox on the Daring Feats of a Flying Newfoundland
How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected
Marco Belpoliti on Collective Memory and Publishing in Post-War Italy
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