The Simpsons

Karen Russell Received an Ice Bucket as a Courtship Gift, and Other Literary Tidbits

The Author of "The Antidote" Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

 
By Literary Hub  March 11, 2025
The Hub

This year, The Simpsons has a Halloween special devoted to Stephen King’s It.

By Jonny Diamond  September 12, 2022
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Let’s remember when The Simpsons did “The Raven.”

By Dan Sheehan  January 26, 2022
Fan Culture

Seressia Glass on Her Favorite Fictional Nerds

By Seressia Glass  December 22, 2021
The Hub

Ten books from The Simpsons Library I would like to read.

By Jessie Gaynor  October 22, 2021
The Hub

How to make writing easier, according to one of comedy’s greatest minds. (Hint: it involves elves.)

By Walker Caplan  May 3, 2021
Rock N Roll

Peter Frampton Talks Fame, David Bowie, and The Simpsons

By Dan Sheehan  November 16, 2020
Why Not?

An Incomplete But Amusing Survey of Judy Blume References in Pop Culture

By Emily Temple  February 12, 2020
The Hub

The new publisher of The Paris Review is Mona Simpson.

By Dan Sheehan  January 22, 2020
Deep Dive

Do Great Writers Really Steal? On Plagiarism and Publishing

By Lincoln Michel  July 19, 2018
Excerpts

Gary Panter, Matt Groening, and the Dual History of Punk and Comics

By Hillary Chute  December 11, 2017
Criticism

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

By Veronica Esposito  June 20, 2017
Personal Essay

South Park and the Dark Comedy of Our Deepest Fears

By Kayla Rae Whitaker  January 31, 2017
Criticism

Pop Culture in a Post-Truth America

By Emily Harnett  December 15, 2016

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