I’m taking on Sweat with Pride this June to raise money for our Rainbow communities! 💦🌈 Our schools, workplaces, and doctors’ offices are still not safe places for many Rainbow New Zealanders and it’s...

Half His Age was one of my most anticipated book releases of 2026. When I learned that Jennette McCurdy – whose breakout memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died I absolutely loved – was releasing a novel with fem...

Exploring how literature, media, and morality collide in stories that dare to empathise with the monstrous. In this episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with one of the most provocative and fearless v...

From Cursed Bunny to Midnight Timetable, a conversation about stories that turn rage into resistance. Some stories haunt you long after you close the book, and Midnight Timetable is one of them. In ...

A conversation about writing outsiders, confronting taboos, and storytelling as liberation.

From Bunny to We Love You, Bunny: Exploring surrealism, satire, and the art of creation.

Ahmed is just 27 years old, but he has already carried more loss and responsibility than most of us can imagine. At the very start of the genocide in Gaza, Ahmed was gravely injured while helping othe...

Ahmed is just 27 years old, but he has already carried more loss and responsibility than most of us can imagine. At the very start of the genocide in Gaza, Ahmed was gravely injured while helping othe...

If you're feeling sick and helpless at the never-ending stream of horrific images and videos coming out of Palestine right now, you're not alone. But if you want to actually do something about it but...

Letting Nazis spout hatred on this platform is not my idea of free speech.

Translated tales of rage, desire, dissociation, and descent.

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A masterlist of every disturbing, dazzling, and darkly funny title mentioned on the Sick Sad Lit podcast.

A conversation about fiction rooted in truth, the complexities of motherhood, and finding rhythm in the writing process.

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Podcast · Jen Eastwood · Sick Sad Lit is a podcast for readers and writers who love digging into the dark, messy, and provocative corners of contemporary fiction, as well as exploring the emergence of...

The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.