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All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

All in the Family: Considering Television’s Orphan Plot

Kristen Martin on the Superficial Portrayals of Orphanhood on 90s TV

By Kristen Martin | January 22, 2025

Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

Joni Mitchell! Han Kang! Belle & Sebastian! 22 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 21, 2025

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month

The Best Writing at the Site in February

By Literary Hub | February 28, 2019

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love

By Kristen Martin | February 11, 2019

Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin on the Problem With Dead Girl Stories

Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin on the Problem With Dead Girl Stories

Episode 22 of Fiction/Non/Fiction, with Whitney Terrell
and V.V. Ganeshananthan

By Literary Hub | July 26, 2018

Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

Why We Love—and Need to Leave Behind—Dead Girl Stories

"The Way We Tell Them Gives Us Permission to Look Away from Obvious Patterns"

By Kristen Martin | June 27, 2018

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Gregory Pardlo on Form, His Father, and Not Writing a Book About Race

By Kristen Martin | April 9, 2018

Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

By Kristen Martin | September 14, 2017

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

By Kristen Martin | February 16, 2017

Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with his Mother

Phillip Lopate Revisits a 30-Year-Old Conversation with his Mother

Kristen Martin speaks with the teacher, essayist, and author of A Mother's Tale

By Kristen Martin | January 17, 2017

Donald Trump's Sentimental Journey to the Top

Donald Trump's Sentimental Journey to the Top

Revisiting Joan Didion on 90s NYC, to Make Sense of Present Day America

By Kristen Martin | March 22, 2016