Witty follow-up to The Orange East Creep

Review by Emily Hall   Nora Lange’s short-story collection, Day Care, is a piercing exploration of womanhood and fulfillment. The follow-up to her debut novel, Us Fools, the eighteen stories in this c...

Is a short story allowed to do that? Does everything mean something? Does it matter? These are all questions I asked myself while reading Nora Lange’s newest collection, Day Care.  Through eighteen st...

Katharina Volckmer’s second novel, Calls May Be Recorded (Two Dollar Radio, 9/16/25) is a fierce workplace satire that is bold in its exacting focus on those pushed to the margins of this century’s ra...

By Mike Corrao

How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?

How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: * Jade Chang (What a Time to Be Alive) Catherine Chidgey (T…

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.

Katharina Volckmer’s Calls May Be Recorded opens with thoughts on when a person is most likely to shit themselves.

An employee at a travel-agency call center scrapes together moments of hilarity and strange intimacy into a life he can stand, somewhat.

Calling these books “plotless” ignores their radical storytelling

My debut novel, Absence, came out of failure. Many months of failure. For nearly a year before I began work on it, I was working on another novel. It was to be longer, more expansive, more determi…

An employee at a travel-agency call center scrapes together moments of hilarity and strange intimacy into a life he can stand, somewhat.