Hannah Lillith Assadi

Dec 7, 2023 | lithub.com | Hannah Lillith Assadi |Hala Alyan |Rebecca Bengal |Arwen Curry

From essays to interviews, excerpts to blog posts, reading lists to poems, we publish around 350 pieces a month at Lit Hub. And while we are proud of all of the 4,000+ pieces we’ve shared in 2022, we do have our personal favorites. Below are a few of the Lit Hub features the staff loved best from this past year.

Nov 6, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Kyo Maclear |Hannah Lillith Assadi |George Murray |Leila C. Nadir

Discover more from Memoir LandThree verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

Nov 2, 2023 | lithub.com | Hannah Lillith Assadi

November 2022On the telephone from the hospital, my father tells me he wants a cigarette. He has fallen again. His once hearty frame is now so frail, I can hardly bear to look at him. The cancer is in his bones. The cancer is everywhere. A wise friend once said that gazing upon death is like staring at the sun. But it’s worse than that.

May 30, 2023 | full-stop.net | Hannah Lillith Assadi

A few weeks after my father passed away, I received an email from Olivia Elias’s publisher regarding the upcoming release of her English language debut, Chaos, Crossing. My mind was on loss, and on my father’s life of upheaval since the Nakba, a life lived almost entirely in diaspora. Reading Olivia’s poetry of exile and mourning felt like an anchor in my grief. It was my great pleasure then to be able to chat with her a bit more about her writing and evolution as a poet in this interview.

May 30, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Hannah Lillith Assadi

A few weeks after my father passed away, I received an email from Olivia Elias’s publisher regarding the upcoming release of her English language debut, Chaos, Crossing. My mind was on loss, and on my father’s life of upheaval since the Nakba, a life lived almost entirely in diaspora. Reading Olivia’s poetry of exile and mourning felt like an anchor in my grief. It was my great pleasure then to be able to chat with her a bit more about her writing and evolution as a poet in this interview.