It's Lit! - Season 1

Season 1
Network
DatesJun 4, 2018 - Apr 18, 2019
Episodes

Season 1Episode 1
When the Book is Better than the Movie
Which is better, the book or the movie? Explore the question with host Lindsay Ellis.
Jun 4, 2018

Season 1Episode 2
The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained
Young Adult Fiction (YA) is dominating literature, and more young people are reading now than ever before. Lindsay Ellis explores how YA carved a place in publishing.
Jun 25, 2018

Season 1Episode 3
The Evolution of Science Fiction
Jul 16, 2018

Season 1Episode 4
An Ode to the Romance Novel
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject of intrigue, derision, and shame in literary discourse long before the modern genre as we know it existed.
Jul 30, 2018

Season 1Episode 5
How Fantasy Reflects our World
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, our presents, and future.
Aug 13, 2018

Season 1Episode 6
Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?
What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history?
Sep 4, 2018

Season 1Episode 7
Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Despite the adage of not judging a book by its cover, there’s a lot of time, intent, and money spent creating memorable book covers. Get to know the story behind some of literature’s most iconic book covers.
Nov 21, 2018

Season 1Episode 8
Fear of GhostWriting
You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the tortured auteur? Well, the answer is more complicated than you think!
Dec 7, 2018

Season 1Episode 9
Who Can You Trust? Unreliable Narrators
Who is the most powerful character in fiction? Villains may doom the world, heroes may save it, but no one has more control over the plot than the narrator - expositing the who, what, where, when and how directly into the reader’s mind. But how can you tell that the person telling you the story is telling you the whole story?
Dec 17, 2018

Season 1Episode 10
Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life.
Jan 11, 2019

Season 1Episode 11
Death, Personified
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think.
Jan 24, 2019

Season 1Episode 12
How Greek Mythology Inspires Us
Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean task to compile every way it’s manifested!
Feb 7, 2019

Season 1Episode 13
The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!
Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary anthem, and so publicly adored that all 1,900 pages never went out of print.
Apr 18, 2019
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