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Meet this year’s literary Guggenheim fellows.

For the past hundred years, the coveted Guggenheim fellowship has granted funds “to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form.” Today, the Guggenheim Foundation announced its class of 2026. Given Read more >

By Brittany Allen

You can spend a night (or several) in the horny hockey cottage from Heated Rivalry.

One of the locations where the hit hockey romance Heated Rivalry was shot is available to rent, if you’re trying to turn your weekend away into more of a cosplay situation, according to Travel + Leisure. The Barlochan Cottage is Read more >

By James Folta

7 movies that were tragically cut from our Best Literary Film Adaptations bracket.

I’ve worked on a number of brackets now for Lit Hub, and I don’t think I’ve seem as much internal contention over what to include than this one. We’ve got a lot of opinions on film adaptations over here. What Read more >

By James Folta

One great poem to read today: Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly”

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >

By McKayla Coyle

Lena Dunham, Maria Semple, Solvej Balle, and more: 22 new books out today!

A new treasure trove of a week: Lena Dunham’s long-awaited second memoir is out today, as well as Maria Semple’s first novel in almost ten years, Go Gentle. Solvej Balle’s viral “On the Calculation of Volume” series continues with Book Read more >

By Julia Hass

Seven novels to read if you’re obsessed with Elif Batuman.

What is it about the campus novel? Even for those of us who didn’t attend Ivy-drenched Northeastern institutions, the genre appeals. Yet the novel that truly captures the undergraduate brain—with its suite of neuroses and affectations—is rare. Elif Batuman’s The Idiot—and her 2022 Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Dissenting opinion: Why Emerald Fennell’s 'Wuthering Heights' is good, actually.

I mean no disrespect to my estimable colleagues who’ve done the hard work of putting this bracket together, but since they’ve asked the staff for input on adaptations that should have been on the list, I’m here to say it’s straight-up Read more >

By Drew Broussard

One great poem to read today: Tim Dlugos’s “Shelley Winters”

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of the Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

We’re ten days into the 30th National Poetry Month—perhaps you’ve seen our poem-of-the-day feature—and it’s gotten me into a lyrical mood. In that vein, I picked up and became instantly enraptured by John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief Read more >

By James Folta

Here’s what’s been making us happy this week.

Another Friday, another opportunity for gratitude. We at Lit Hub have been living to laugh and laughing to live. Two weeks ago, Drew Broussard went to see an author friend (Sam Rebelein) read a chunk of his new novel aloud Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Ten fictional professors ranked by plausibility.

School, meet streaming. This spring, the nerdy nostalgist can find several depictions of campus life on their small screen. On Netflix, the adaptation of Julia May Jonas’ Vladimir draws us down a well of dark academia. And on HBO, we have Read more >

By Brittany Allen

One great poem to read today: Mark Doty’s “Visitation”

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >

By Calvin Kasulke

Here are the winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

The eight winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes literary achievement and promise in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an Read more >

By Literary Hub

One great poem to read today: Michael Ondaatje’s “To a Sad Daughter”

This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Here are the recipients of the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellowship.

In 2024, Haymarket Books, along with the Mellon Foundation, launched a new fellowship aimed at supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the criminal legal system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. Today, they’ve announced their third annual cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose Read more >

By Literary Hub

Here are the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the 2026 recipients of its annual 5 Under 35 award, which honors fiction writers under the age of 35 “whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” Each of Read more >

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