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    “Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

    From Kamila Shamsie’s English PEN Lecture

     
    By Kamila Shamsie  June 20, 2025
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

    By Literary Hub  June 18, 2025
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    The 2025 Young Lions Fiction Award goes to Alexander Sammartino.

    By James Folta  June 13, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: To Be or Not To Be? To Rec or Not to Rec?

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    Here are the winners of the 2025 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.

    By Literary Hub  June 12, 2025
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    Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

    By James Folta  June 11, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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    David Means has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s short story prize.

    By Brittany Allen  June 10, 2025
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    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 6, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Joan Didion’s Privacy, Writers Beware, and Wes Anderson

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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Book Bans in Llano County and Community Supported Lit Mags

    featuring Leila Green Little, Anthony Aycock, Benjamin Davis, and Drew Broussard

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   June 20, 2025
    Publishing

    There Are Too Many Books: What Happened to Publishing’s Summer Break?

    By Maris Kreizman  June 5, 2025
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    Writer Edmund White has died at 85.

    By James Folta  June 4, 2025
    Speeches

    Ocean Vuong: “This is where we must always return… pure possibility undergirded by pure humility.”

    By Ocean Vuong  June 4, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Fighting Words and Magical Romance

    Jenny Hamilton on romantasy and George M. Johnson on book bans

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 30, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Summer Reading and Writing Buddies

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 23, 2025
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    Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

    By James Folta  May 22, 2025
    Travel

    The winners of the 2025 International Booker Prize are breaking boundaries.

    By Brittany Allen  May 22, 2025
    AI

    You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

    Maris Kreizman on the AI Hallucinations That Made it to the Book Review Section

    By Maris Kreizman  May 22, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Real Literary Hoaxes and the Abrams Union Drive

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 16, 2025
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    Oh good, Audible is planning to start using AI narrators and translators.

    By James Folta  May 14, 2025
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    Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

    By Literary Hub  May 14, 2025
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    In a new lawsuit, the Authors Guild is going toe to toe with DOGE.

    By Brittany Allen  May 13, 2025
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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Pulitzer Intrigue, Sinners and Vampires, and the NEA

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 9, 2025
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    On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

    By Maris Kreizman  May 8, 2025
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    Karen Leeder and Durs Grünbein have won the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

    By Literary Hub  June 5, 2025
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