5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (212+ words) The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work. The small publisher has been putting out fascinating novels, collections, zines and games since 2013. Inpatient’s publisher, Mitch Anzuoni, studied computer science and creative writing in college (fittingly) and aims “to…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (350+ words) Kuang and I spoke earlier this month—she is as smart in person as she is on the page, funny, insightful, and extremely curious. An edited version of our conversation follows: Adam Dalva: Your book activates so much nostalgia—of…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1893+ words) Writing is a challenge, at every level. There are constant pressures acting upon a writer: juggling between responsibilities and work; prioritizing health; making and somehow slowing down time; even, perhaps, the arresting, infinite possibilities of the page. Not to mention,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (133+ words) In time he will say that The Waves by Virginia Woolf has been the most important novel in his life; but at twenty he does not use the word of this or any book, and would think it pompous, embarrassing,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (609+ words) One of the most celebrated classicists writing today, Emily Wilson achieved a rare kind of literary stardom in 2017, when her translation of Homer’s Odyssey made her the first woman to publish a complete English version of the epic. Her work,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (514+ words) As summer comes to a close, we at Lit Hub are celebrating milestones and jumping into the deep end. What’s making us happy? Climbing mountains. We’re looking autumn square in the face and saying: bring it on. Molly Odintz, for…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (571+ words) J.P. Donleavy, called Guts by his closest friends for his fighting spirit, refused rejection. The kid from the Bronx who knew how to box and eventually became famous as the author of The Ginger Man, is revealed in all his complexity,…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (146+ words) As I read my way through the September stacks, I was struck by the feeling that we have finally reached the moment post-pandemic when the poets, collectively, are finding their way. Of course, as always, I’m just speaking for me,…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (650+ words) September 1st marks, emotionally at least, the beginning of fall. And with it comes that reliable onslaught of literature for which we have been waiting all year. The month starts with a bang, delivering a new Marlon James, Chloe Benjamin, Emily…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1005+ words) Says a narrator in Marlon James’s freshly Booker-nominated The Disappearers, “I’ve made such a terrible mess out of being a homo.” The novel’s protagonists are all gay men in ‘80s and ‘90s Jamaica; each makes similar proclamations. “But the statement is unfair,…...