It's Lit!

Forbes once called her “The Warren Buffett of vampires,” but American author, Anne Rice has established herself as the literary queen of monsters of ALL kinds over her four-and-a-half decade career. Besides her 15 novels of the world-famous Vampire Chronicles series, she’s also written 21 other books featuring all your favorite dark, supernatural, and undead beings: witches, ghosts, mummies, werewolves, aliens, demons, angels, Jesus. But the works of Anne Rice aren't just light, pulpy fun monster books--her vampires changed the landscape of genre fiction as we know it?

All Episodes - Season 2

Episode 1

The Case for Fan Fiction

Episode 2

Afrofuturism From Books to Blockbusters

Episode 3

How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing

Episode 4

Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later

Episode 5

The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic?

Episode 6

The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien

Episode 7

War and Peace and Everything Else

Episode 8

The It’s Lit! Musical Episode

Episode 9

The Fiery History of Banned Books

Episode 10

The (Stephen) King of Horror

Episode 11

Are Graphic Novels... Novels?

Episode 12

Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever?

Episode 13

Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters

Episode 14

Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance

Episode 15

How Do You Write a Bestseller?