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Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Farid Matuk. Farid Matuk...
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What Community Means as a Queer Black Writer
In the spring of 1990, poised at the brink of graduation from Morehouse College, I came out to my girlfriend. A year earlier, she’d chuckled when I declared my desire that we date. Not that she was an...
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The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an epic rager.
On May 8, 1925—a hundred years ago tomorrow—one of the country’s largest collections of Black arts, literature, and history was born out of a Harlem brownstone. Now called the Schomburg Research Center...
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Literary Alchemy: On Fusing Research and Film Techniques to Write a Novel
The spark for my novel, Gulf, began when I was living in Abu Dhabi and working for NYU. A friend of mine who was the Director of Equality Now, a global women’s rights organization, enlisted my help to...
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Richard Bausch Thinks You Can Never Permanently Ruin a Piece of Writing (And...
Richard Bausch’s collection, The Fate of Others, is available now from Knopf, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, rereading, bad writing advice, and more. What time of day do you...
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What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire
As age-gap relationships persist, despite the think-pieces, so will novels with age-gap relationships. I believe these novels offer something different—perhaps truer—than the story of a more...
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4Columns is closing up shop. Here are 10 unmissable pieces from their archives.
Another day, another great literary website bites the dust. Next summer, we’ll apparently say “auf wiedersehen” to 4Columns, a bastion of long-form arts criticism. 4Columns makes a practice of covering...
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“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black...
My boy is beautiful. I write this to remind myself. I remind myself because I am a hard man. I am a hard man because at some point in my life I chose to be. I can be intolerant, quick to anger,...
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Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories
Biographer Nicholas Boggs joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his groundbreaking new book, Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin to be...
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Through the Lens of Love: Nicholas Boggs on His New Biography of James Baldwin
Reverend Danté Stewart is an author, award-winning writer, and cultural critic, keenly attuned to issues of faith, justice, and stories of the heart. Nicholas Boggs debut biography, Baldwin: A Love...
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