The Lit Hub Podcast

It's a big episode this week, because it is raining in New York (finally!) and we just have a lot of cool stuff to share.• Jessie Gaynor drops in to chat about having ChatGPT attempt classic poetry and the dangers of AI-assisted art• Drew talks with The Public Theater's Jack Phillips Moore about the latest revival of Gatz, a verbatim adaptation of The Great Gatsby• Jonny Diamond celebrates a year of literary assholes with Kristen Arnett and drops a live "Am I the Literary Asshole?" question on our columnistSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Samantha Harvey's Orbital won the Booker Prize! Next week, it's the National Book Awards! It's cold and flu season! Gosh, the year is really flying by.• Jessie Gaynor talks with Jadie Stillwell and Nicole Blackwood about their piece on the Nancy Drew Convention and the sleuth's enduring appeal• Ryan Chapman leaves a voicemail about his failed Booker prediction• Drew reads some delightful answers to the Lit Hub Questionnaire from the 2024 National Book Award FinalistsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

No theme music, so you know it's serious.IN THIS EP:• Jonny Diamond talks to Drew about some ways that Lit Hub hopes to respond to the idea of a second Trump Presidency• Drew sits down with Ryan Chapman (The Audacity) to get his thoughts on the 2024 Booker Prize in advance of his forthcoming Sewanee Review column—recorded live at one of Lit Hub's "10 of the Best Bookstores in the World," Rough Draft Bar & Books• Lena Crown introduces the newest Lit Hub Radio show: Awakeners.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Spooky season is officially over, which means it's Bookmatch time! Our friends at n+1 have launched their holiday fundraising book quiz once again—and this year, it coincides with a celebration of the magazine's twenty anniversary. It's the right moment to celebrate, so celebrate we shall...• Jonny Diamond in conversation with n+1 co-editors Mark Krotov and Dayna Tortorici on the history and future of the little magazine and the new collection celebrating the magazine's last decade, The Intellectual Situation• Brittany Allen on curating a sex-work-positive reading list after seeing Anora• Drew urges everyone to vote—and to vote in such a way that takes care of your communitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's a bookseller-heavy episode this week—just in time to start thinking about shopping local/indie for your holiday shopping needs...• Drew expands on his recent piece about the low-quality paperbacks suddenly showing up in bookstores• Calvin Kasulke talks to Ramsey Kanaan of PM Press about his leftist press taking ownership of Autumn Leaves, the legendary indie bookstore in Ithaca, NY• Maris Kreizman drops in to discuss her latest column on the need for better fact-checkingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's mid-October which means we are in the thick of spooky season—and we've got a spooky spectacular for you this week!• Tune in to James Folta calling Literary Terrors Bingo live at the community center in Halloweentown• Olivia Rutigliano drops in to talk to Drew about the strange similarities between the collapse of the publishing mid-list and the recent spate of streaming cancellations• A conversation about reading weird books with Drew Broussard, McKayla Coyle, and Oliver ScialdoneMENTIONED: The Companion by E.E. Ottoman • Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval • Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield • Earthlings by Sayaka Murata • You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth • Bizarre Publishing House • Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram • Revelator by Daryl Gregory • Curses by George WylesolA Lit Hub Radio PodcastHosted by Drew BroussardMusic by Dani Lencioni of EvelynMixed and Engineered at Stardust HouseSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As part of The Issues 2024, this episode is largely about unions and labor—but also, a little bit more about romance books because it turns out... people really like romance books!Lit Hub EIC Jonny Diamond talks with Kim Kelly, author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, about the challenges facing organized labor in the 2020s but also the still-young history of the labor movement in AmericaDrew Broussard and McKayla Coyle talk about getting into reading romance novelsAlexandra Kleeman offers an elegy for the late Robert CooverHosted by Drew BroussardMusic by Dani Lencioni of EvelynProduction and Engineering by Stardust HouseA Lit Hub Radio PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What's with all the romance-specific bookstores opening around the country? Have you ever read any translated true crime? And what is horror as a genre, anyway?A romance-bookstore-roundtable with Emily Ezell (Blush & Bashful Books, Hopkinsville KY), Leah Koch (The Ripped Bodice, LA & NYC), and Mel Saavedra (Steamy Lit, Deerfield Beach, FLY)CrimeReads's Molly Odintz on "True Crime in Translation: A Reading List"A sneak peak of Voyage Into Genre's upcoming horror episode, feat. CJ Leede and Kemi Ashing-GiwaHosted by Drew BroussardMusic by Dani Lencioni of EvelynProduction and Engineering by Stardust HouseA Lit Hub Radio PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's Banned Books Week! There's a new Sally Rooney book! What a week!Brittany K. Allen talks to host Drew Broussard about Sally Rooney ManiaCalvin Kasulke talks to librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds about banned books, libraries, and fighting back against attempts at oppressionMaris Kreizman stops by with a peek into her latest columnBANNED BOOK RESOURCES:FReadom FightersAdvice on writing to elected officials or your local newspaperAdvocate for School Libraries Anti-Censorship Toolkit from Book RiotLibrarian Amanda Jones's story of fighting back and suing her tormentors Hosted by Drew BroussardMusic by Dani Lencioni of EvelynProduction and Engineering by Stardust HouseA Lit Hub Radio PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week:James Folta on "Meet the writer who added 'lol' to the end of every sentence of In Search of Lost Time"Dan Sheehan talks to Huda Fakhreddine about "Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide"Here's a link to the full text of the lol-ed version of In Search of Lost Time.Hosted by Drew BroussardMusic by Dani Lencioni of EvelynProduction and Engineering by Stardust HouseA Lit Hub Radio PodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.