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

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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

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Hosted by Drew Broussard

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

Mixed and Engineered at Stardust House

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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

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Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

Production and Engineering by Stardust House

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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-Giwa

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Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

Production and Engineering by Stardust House

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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 Mania
• Calvin Kasulke talks to librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds about banned books, libraries, and fighting back against attempts at oppression
• Maris Kreizman stops by with a peek into her latest column

BANNED BOOK RESOURCES:

FReadom Fighters

Advice on writing to elected officials or your local newspaper

Advocate for School Libraries 

Anti-Censorship Toolkit from Book Riot

Librarian Amanda Jones's story of fighting back and suing her tormentors 

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Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

Production and Engineering by Stardust House

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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.

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This week:

• A Conversation on Lists with Jonny Diamond & Emily Temple
• 17 Novels You Should Read This Fall
• "Am I the Literary Asshole?" with Kristen Arnett
• An Introduction from the Host

Hosted by Drew Broussard

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Welcome to The Lit Hub Podcast!

Hosted by LH podcasts editor Drew Broussard, this new weekly show goes behind the scenes at Lit Hub, diving deeper into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful in literary culture. Featuring appearances by Lit Hub staff, recurring columnists like Kristen Arnett and Maris Kreizman, and special guests talking about the news of the day and so much more.

New episodes every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts.

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