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Literary Concertos: A Reading List of Novels Inspired by Other Art Forms
I’ve always loved art that leans into its medium: literature that resists film or television adaptation, theater that breaks the fourth wall. The economy delights me, no piece out of place, not only...
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Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb, the great American editor who died last month at the age of ninety-two, often said that there were two ways of being a publisher: to follow, i.e., give the people what they knew they...
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Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself
Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. New...
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Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose
Jamel Brinkley’s Witness: Stories is now available from FSG, so we asked him a few questions about his writing practice, his favorite books, and more. What time of day do you write? A day can get away...
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How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action
Mamie Garvin Fields, a Black girl who grew up a generation later than Alcott and Schoolcraft, split her time between the refined city of Charleston and rural South Carolina cotton fields. After a...
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Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing
Commercial book publishing was (and is) unbearably white. In 1971, when Toni Morrison became a trade editor, about 95 percent of the fiction published by the big commercial houses was by white authors....
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A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation
I Hiba Abu Nada, 32, wrote and published her final poem ten days before Israeli bombs killed her and many others on October 20, 2023, in Gaza. She had a B.A in organic chemistry and a master’s degree...
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“It Is Not a Given”: Marcie Bianco Lays Out the Steps to Reclaiming Freedom...
Step one to reclaiming freedom for feminism: Claim it. Unlike with equality, we do not need to wait for men or their patriarchal institutions to patronizingly bestow us with freedom (and then send out...
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The Gift of Reading Toni Morrison to My Black Daughter in an Age of Book Bans
In my circle, we give our daughters the gift of innocence. We give them the gift of no sleepovers, no unchaperoned events, no unbridled trust in other adults. It takes a lot of mental and physical...
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Sculpting Sound: Alison C. Rollins on Silence, Afrofuturism, and Writing...
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Alison C. Rollins, the...
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