It's Lit! is a series of smart, funny video essays about our favorite books and why we love to read. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes, the series 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.
It's Lit! is a series of smart, funny video essays about our favorite books and why we love to read. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes, the series 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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Seasons (3)
Season 1
4 Jun 2018 – 18 Apr 2019 · 13 episodes
1When the Book is Better than the Movie4 Jun 2018
2The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained25 Jun 2018
3The Evolution of Science Fiction16 Jul 2018
4An Ode to the Romance Novel30 Jul 2018
5How Fantasy Reflects our World13 Aug 2018
6Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?4 Sep 2018
7Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?21 Nov 2018
8Fear of GhostWriting7 Dec 2018
9Who Can You Trust? Unreliable Narrators17 Dec 2018
10Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature11 Jan 2019
11Death, Personified24 Jan 2019
12How Greek Mythology Inspires Us7 Feb 2019
13The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables!18 Apr 2019
Season 2
27 Feb 2020 – 17 Nov 2021 · 26 episodes
1The Case for Fan Fiction27 Feb 2020
2Afrofuturism: From Books to Blockbusters19 Mar 2020
3How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing29 Apr 2020
4Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later27 May 2020
5The Byronic Hero: Isn't it Byronic?24 Jun 2020
6The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien16 Jul 2020
7War and Peace and Everything Else7 Aug 2020
8The It's Lit! Musical Episode27 Aug 2020
9The Fiery History of Banned Books21 Sep 2020
10The (Stephen) King of Horror5 Nov 2020
11Are Graphic Novels... Novels?25 Nov 2020
12Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever?17 Dec 2020
13Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters6 Jan 2021
14Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance26 Feb 2021
15How Do You Write a Bestseller?18 Mar 2021
16Unraveling the Myth of Ernest Hemingway31 Mar 2021
17What's in a (Pen) Name?21 Apr 2021
18How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves12 May 2021
19Jane Eyre: Why We Keep Reading It17 Jun 2021
20Octavia Butler, The Grand Dame of Science Fiction29 Jun 2021
21The Unappreciated Female Writers Who Invented the Novel14 Jul 2021
22Don't Know Much About BEOWULF? Nobody Does!6 Aug 2021
23To Kill, To Kill a Mockingbird?25 Aug 2021
24Why Do People Think Huck Finn Is Racist?23 Sep 2021
25What You Don't Know About The Father of Sci-Fi26 Oct 2021
26Why We Keep Retelling the Classics17 Nov 2021
Season 3
6 Jan 2022 – 28 Apr 2022 · 5 episodes
1The Women of Jane Austen6 Jan 2022
2Inside the Absurdist Mind of Kurt Vonnegut27 Jan 2022
3Why Edgar Allan Poe Isn't Just a Sad Boy10 Mar 2022
4Why Magical Realism is a Global Phenomenon31 Mar 2022
5Toni Morrison's Opus About Confronting a Terrible Past28 Apr 2022