How to Write a Memoir About Family Tragedy (That People Want to Read)
I’m a screenwriter. And as a screenwriter, I am used to the business of the rewrite, the brutal discard of…
Lit Hub Weekly: June 21-24, 2022
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1900, Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in…
Long Island library board comes to its senses and reverses ban on children’s Pride displays.
June 24, 2022, 11:19am Following the recent onslaught of attacks on LGBTQ+ rights across the nation, the Smithtown Library Board…
First they came for queer story time… And what did you do?
June 24, 2022, 9:32am Last week I posted about a bunch of loser Proud Boys who attacked a queer-friendly drag…
At least no one’s buying all those stupid Trump aide tell-alls.
June 24, 2022, 8:44am Remember that exhausting parade of Trump insiders and ex-staffers getting book deals for dishy tell-alls? Turns…
Lit Hub Daily: June 24, 2022
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1912, English author Mary Wesley, who famously published her first…
Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month
The rights of LGBTQ+ Americans are under threat. After generations of struggle, sacrifice, and resistance saw queer Americans earn a…
Billy-Ray Belcourt Wants a Whole Literature of Queer Indigenous Possibility
Possibility isn’t just a felt absence. It is a zone of living that some are barred from as a result…
111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors
While we celebrate queer literature and history all year long at Lit Hub dot com, we also love a good…
Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell
I sat down with the bestselling author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness, Garth Greenwell last year, after the…