The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: **Maria Adelmann (*The Adjunct)*** **Lily Brooks-Dalton (*Ruins*)** **Benjamin Hale (*Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks*)** **Luke Kennard (*Black Bag*)** **T Kira Madden (*Whidbey*)** * **Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about?** **Maria Adelmann: **The myth of intellectual and creative labor existing outside of the market. Plus: class, power, academia, sex, and feeling uncategorizable. **Lily Brooks-Dalton: **Ancient civilizations and modern disaster. Dirt, all kinds. Is it human nature to be extractive assholes, or is this just a phase? Are “difficult women” just unfashionably correct?…