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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Lynch, Le Guin, and Your 2025 Book Trends!

Featuring Julie Phillips, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone

 
By The Lit Hub Podcast   January 17, 2025
The Hub

Tech companies, once again, are trying to do publishing.

By James Folta  November 25, 2024
Jane Austen

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
Jane Austen

The Pleasure and Communion of Austen’s Country Dance

By Cornelia Powers  August 17, 2023
The Hub

Simon & Schuster UK is launching a TikTok hype house for books.

By Janet Manley  June 5, 2023
The Hub

TikTok has awoken and found itself with a mad crush on Kafka.

By Janet Manley  February 28, 2023
Keen On

Steven Levy on the Inside Story of Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, and TikTok

By Keen On  February 23, 2023
BookTok

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

By Leigh Stein  February 13, 2023
So Many Damn Books

Antiquarian Bookseller Tom Ayling on Unearthing the Private Lives of Historic Writers

By So Many Damn Books  February 1, 2023
Best of 2022

The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year

By Literary Hub  December 26, 2022
The Hub

Is this the best library Instagram in America?

By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2022
The Hub

Oh good, TikTok is breaking into bookselling.

By Katie Yee  November 18, 2022
The Hub

Good news for authors: Amazon will no longer let people return ebooks after reading them in full.

By Jessie Gaynor  September 22, 2022
The Hub

If you’re obsessed with Bama Rush Tok, read Eating the Cheshire Cat.

By Jessie Gaynor  August 23, 2022
Social Media

What Discourse Regulation by Social Media Giants Means For Democratic Societies

By Jamie Susskind  July 5, 2022
The Hub

Barnes and Noble is launching a summer reading program… on TikTok.

By Katie Yee  June 29, 2022
Keen On

Whose Nightmare Are We Living In: Orwell’s or Huxley’s?

By Andrew Keen  June 24, 2022
Keen On

TikTok Ascendant: Where Democracy Lives (and Dies) in the Age of Social Media

By Andrew Keen  June 3, 2022
The Hub

#BookTok is selling a ton of books, especially backlist titles for young adults.

By Corinne Segal  April 21, 2022
The Hub

You can relax now: Charles Dickens is no longer shadowbanned on TikTok.

By Walker Caplan  March 25, 2022
The Hub

TikTok isn’t just for tearjerkers—it’s also for obscure 1930s literary puzzles, apparently.

By Walker Caplan  December 3, 2021
The Hub

Dear parents of young kids: do you live-edit bad children’s books as you’re reading them?

By Jonny Diamond  November 2, 2021
The Hub

Let’s hope the latest book TikTok controversy is the last.

By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2021
Social Media

How BookTok Gets Into
Your Brain

By Bethanne Patrick  March 24, 2021
The Hub

New in TikTok trends: A ten-year-old self-help book?

By Walker Caplan  February 8, 2021
The Hub

British Library Publishing is rushing to print the sea shanty guide we need.

By Corinne Segal  January 15, 2021
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