The Lit Hub Podcast

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-checking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Scialdone MENTIONED:  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 Wylesol A Lit Hub Radio Podcast Hosted by Drew Broussard Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Mixed and Engineered at Stardust House Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 America Drew Broussard and McKayla Coyle talk about getting into reading romance novels Alexandra Kleeman offers an elegy for the late Robert Coover Hosted by Drew Broussard Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn Production and Engineering by Stardust House A Lit Hub Radio Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices