4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (557+ words) And nothing says fun quite like a spicy margarita, am I right? Little bit of lime, little bit of salt—it’s basically a health drink, chock full of essential vitamins and electrolytes. I’ll pour us a couple and we’ll jump…...

1+ week, 4+ 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…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1313+ words) On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, I walked down the fourth floor hallway on my way to class. Behind a thick column, lurking in the shadows, a kind looking man…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (564+ words) Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories in traditional media, along with many people…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (584+ words) Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text messages, Instagram captions, and other digital fragments rather than…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1500+ words) Literary Hub The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness M.C. Mah Considers the Work of Making and Waiting For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the unemerged writer faces a…...