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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Tips for Dating Apps and Starting Bookstores

Featuring Chloé Caldwell, Calvin Kasulke, K. Kerimian, and Drew Broussard

By The Lit Hub Podcast | February 14, 2025

Valentine’s Day date ideas for book nerds (and those who love them).

Valentine’s Day date ideas for book nerds (and those who love them).

By James Folta | February 11, 2025

Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”

Rosie Schaap on Losing Her Husband: “He Wanted to Go on Reading Because He Wanted to Go on Living.”

The Unhappiest of Valentine’s Day in a Brooklyn Hospice

By Rosie Schaap | August 21, 2024

You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You’ve Got Mail: Poring Over the Love Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Laura McNeal on an Archive of Romance

By Laura McNeal | February 14, 2024

7 great love stories for cynics.

7 great love stories for cynics.

By Emily Temple | February 12, 2024

Read a 1918 suffragette's

Read a 1918 suffragette's "advice on marriage to young ladies."

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2023

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Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine's Day

By Katie Yee | February 14, 2023

A brief history of heart-shaped books.

By Walker Caplan | February 14, 2022

Take a peek at some literary curiosities and vintage cards from Valentine's Days of yore.

By Sammy Jay | February 12, 2021

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

But Probably Not For Your Loneliness

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

In Praise of Weird Literary Romances

In Praise of Weird Literary Romances

On Valentine's Day, 8 Novels of Unlikely Love

By Amy Bonnaffons | February 14, 2020

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High Fidelity.">

High Fidelity.">Here's the first trailer for the brand new adaptation of High Fidelity.

By Katie Yee | December 20, 2019

11 Literary Pick Up Lines for the Chronically Dateless

11 Literary Pick Up Lines for the Chronically Dateless

Get Yourself a Valentine Who Reads

By Emily Temple | February 13, 2019

The Fine Art of Falling to Pieces

The Fine Art of Falling to Pieces

On the Literature of Romantic Abandonment

By B.D. McClay | February 14, 2018

Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

Kafka Was a Terrible Boyfriend

Read Franz Kafka's "Love Letters" to Felice Bauer

By Eleanor Bass | February 14, 2018

30 of the Worst Couples in Literature

30 of the Worst Couples in Literature

Turns Out Lots of People Could Write a Bad Romance (Happy Valentine's!)

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2018