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It's Lit! Season 1

June. 04,2018
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It's Lit!

A series of smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about their favorite books and why they love to read. Host Lindsay Ellis delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and why the book is sometimes just a _bit_ better than the movie.

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A series of smart, funny video essays from PBS Digital Studios about their favorite books and why they love to read. Host Lindsay Ellis delves into topics like the evolution of YA, how science fiction mirrors our own anxieties, and why the book is sometimes just a _bit_ better than the movie.

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It's Lit! Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 13 - The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!
First Aired: April. 18,2019

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.

Episode 12 - How Greek Mythology Inspires Us
Episode 11 - Death, Personified
Episode 10 - Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature
First Aired: January. 11,2019

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.

Episode 9 - Unreliable Narrators
First Aired: December. 17,2018

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?

Episode 8 - Fear of Ghost...Writing!
First Aired: December. 07,2018

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!

Episode 7 - Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
First Aired: November. 21,2018

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.

Episode 6 - Why did they make me read this in High School?
Episode 5 - How Fantasy Reflects Our World
First Aired: August. 21,2018

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.

Episode 4 - An Ode to the Romance Novel
First Aired: July. 30,2018

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.

Episode 3 - Why Sci Fi is a Mirror on Society
First Aired: July. 13,2018

While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several centuries. Check out the origin of science fiction with Lindsay Ellis!

Episode 2 - The Evolution of YA

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