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

    Featuring Julie Phillips, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver Scialdone

    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.

    The year has really gotten off on a rough foot. But what lessons can we take from deeply admired artists like Ursula K. Le Guin and David Lynch, for the tumult to come? And what might readers be able to expect from 2025, trend-wise? We might not have the answers, but we do have some answers.

    * A note from Drew, about wildfire assistance
    * Another note from Drew, about Neil Gaiman
    * Julie Phillips on “The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism”
    * McKayla Coyle and Oliver Scialdone drop in to riff with Drew on some possible trends to watch out for in 2025—or, really, what we all might like to see more of! Call it manifesting.
    * A closing note from Drew, about David Lynch

    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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