Book Review
Half His Age was one of my most anticipated book releases of 2026. When I learned that Jennette McCurdy – whose breakout memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died I absolutely loved – was releasing a novel with female rage as a central theme, I was SAT. The book's
In the Season 2 finale we explore how structure, intention, and cultural context shape unforgettable horror. What a banger of an interview to end the season on. I am not exaggerating when I say that I still think about Tender is The Flesh almost every day, nearly a year after
Exploring collapse, connection, and the strange hope buried inside disaster. In this episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with Torrey Peters, acclaimed author of Detransition, Baby and Stag Dance, for a deeply honest conversation about the realities of the modern writing life. Torrey opens up about the emotional
A conversation about agency, emotion, and learning to feel everything without falling apart. This week on Sick Sad Lit, I sat down with the luminous, razor-sharp, and deeply funny Lauren McQuistin of @BrutalRecovery, to talk about her new book No Lost Causes Club getting sober young, building emotional muscles from
Exploring how literature, media, and morality collide in stories that dare to empathise with the monstrous. In this episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with one of the most provocative and fearless voices in contemporary fiction: Eliza Clark. Author of Boy Parts, Penance, and She’s Always Hungry,
Exploring fear, faith, and the emotional labour of crafting stories that demand everything. In this week’s episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with R. O. Kwon—author of The Incendiaries, Exhibit, and co-editor of Kink—to talk about what it really costs to write from the heart.
From Cursed Bunny to Midnight Timetable, a conversation about stories that turn rage into resistance. Some stories haunt you long after you close the book, and Midnight Timetable is one of them. In this week’s episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with Bora Chung, the International Booker–
Podcast and online magazine for readers and fans of dark, unhinged fiction.
A conversation about writing outsiders, confronting taboos, and storytelling as liberation. Ottessa Moshfegh has built her literary career on writing the characters we’re often told to look away from: the outsiders, the unlikable, the ones whose obsessions curdle into grotesque truths about who we are. In this episode of
From Bunny to We Love You, Bunny: Exploring surrealism, satire, and the art of creation. Whoever said you should never meet your idols, clearly never met Mona Awad. For the Sick Sad Lit season 2 podcast premiere, I was lucky enough to sit down with the fever-dream Bunny queen herself
Pumpkin Spice is fine, but have you tried consuming literature that changes who you are as a person? Here in Aotearoa, our spooky season happens to be in Spring, but I thoroughly enjoy living vicariously through the Northern Hemisphere's fall-vibes in Halloween and the inevitably killer list of
Hi friends, If you're looking for a way to make even a tiny bit of difference to the horrific suffering of the Palestinian people, this is it. I am running an urgent appeal to raise money to help Ahmed Yasser and his family to buy a 14-person tent,
If you're feeling sick and helpless at the never-ending stream of horrific images and videos coming out of Palestine right now, you're not alone. But if you want to actually do something about it but have no idea where to start, there are ways to contribute
A bookish community for the unhinged, the literary, and the culturally weird. I started Sick Sad Lit as a space to explore the books and ideas that get under our skin: unreliable narrators, female rage, unsettling and unhinged stories. Now, we’re taking that conversation off the page and into
Letting Nazis spout hatred on a platform is not my idea of free speech. Update: Hi friends! I'm sharing this exit post here on my new home so anyone landing here for the first time has a bit of context as to why I made this move. I
Translated tales of rage, desire, dissociation, and descent.
A masterlist of every disturbing, dazzling, and darkly funny title mentioned on the Sick Sad Lit podcast.
From Buenos Aires to folklore and rebellion—inside the gothic world of a literary horror icon.
From Natural Beauty to Immaculate Conception, we talk about fiction, friendship, and the power of art to say the unspeakable.
A conversation about fiction rooted in truth, the complexities of motherhood, and finding rhythm in the writing process.