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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

218 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

By Literary Hub | January 12, 2023

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Algren Got Fired, Banks Made a Friend

By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna | January 10, 2023

“What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

“What Excuse Do I Have for Having Written Nothing Yet Today? None.” Glimpses Into Kafka’s Workshop

Ross Benjamin on Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries

By Ross Benjamin | January 10, 2023

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”

By Matthew Hollis | January 9, 2023

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

Nothing is Real: Craig Brown on the Slippery Art of Biography

“Biography as a form is necessarily artificial. In the end, all biography is a form of fiction.”

By Craig Brown | January 8, 2023

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What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

By Literary Hub | January 3, 2023

From Florentine Orphan to French Princess: The Early Years of Catherine de Medici

By Estelle Paranque | December 22, 2022

“I Am Here to Mourn a Writer Who Has Become Part of My Personal Canon.” On the Short Stories of Naira Kuzmich

By Aram Mrjoian | December 22, 2022

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

Hervé Tullet Reflects on a Career of Creating Creatively Unconventional Children’s Literature

"Like in a publicity stunt, the strength of the image gives all the explanation necessary."

By Hervé Tullet | December 21, 2022

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Literary Fanmail: The Letters of Harold Bloom and James Merrill

Heather Cass White Unearths the Correspondence Between a Poet and His Faithful Reader

By Heather Cass White | December 20, 2022

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing <em>A Christmas Carol </em>in just six weeks.

Charles Dickens partied HARD after finishing A Christmas Carol in just six weeks.

By Jonny Diamond | December 19, 2022

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

What a Young, Aspiring John Singer Sargent Learned From the Beauty of Florence

Paul Fisher on an American Expatriate Artist’s Early Pursuit of Inspiration

By Paul Fisher | December 19, 2022

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

By Jonny Diamond | December 16, 2022

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

By Nino Strachey | December 15, 2022

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

Dora Diamant, the Amazing Woman Who Captured Kafka’s Heart

Kathi Diamant on the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By The Virtual Book Channel | December 15, 2022

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