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Five authors discuss their new books in Lit Hub questionnaire
Literary Hub interviewed five authors with new books for its monthly Author Questionnaire.
The writers are Lauren Michele Jackson, Natasha Lennard, Julie Orringer, Kawai Strong Washburn and Adam Wilson.
Each answered seven questions about their books, influences and lives while writing.
Their subjects range from American identity and political change to family, grief, mortality and artistic betrayal.
The answers also describe personal experiences including the pandemic, illness, parenthood, work and loss.
The questionnaire offers a look at what shaped the five books without reducing them to a single shared theme.
The feature is part of Literary Hub’s recurring monthly series.
Literary Hub published its monthly Author Questionnaire on October 13, 2026.
The questionnaire features five authors with new books answering seven questions.
The authors are Lauren Michele Jackson, Natasha Lennard, Julie Orringer, Kawai Strong Washburn and Adam Wilson.
Their books include essays on America, a book about doubt, a novel involving a love triangle, and works engaging with climate instability and mortality.
The questionnaire asks about each book’s subject, influences and the authors’ lives while writing.
- Who
- Literary Hub interviewed Lauren Michele Jackson, Natasha Lennard, Julie Orringer, Kawai Strong Washburn and Adam Wilson.
- What
- The authors discussed their new books in a seven-question questionnaire.
- When
- October 13, 2026.
- Where
- Literary Hub.
- Why
- The questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring five authors with new books.
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- Publication date
- October 13, 2026
- Interview format
- Seven questions for five authors
- Lauren Michele Jackson’s book
- Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
- Natasha Lennard’s book
- On Un/Certainty: The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times
- Julie Orringer’s book
- Luna, Phoenix, Queen
- Kawai Strong Washburn’s book
- The Names of the New World
- Adam Wilson’s book
- Fail Sons
What people are saying
Stop talking about “these uncertain times.
Artistic and marital betrayal. A love triangle. A stolen manuscript. An injured dog who elicits confessions.
Courage, political and cultural evolution, the glory of the Pacific islands, climate instability, race, transcendence, Minnesota.
The fantasy of immortality. Mortality. Fathers, sons, and brothers. Failure. Grief. Millennials in midlife crisis. “America.
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