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    On the Lit Hub Podcast: Fighting Words and Magical Romance

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    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 30, 2025
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    Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.

    By James Folta  May 22, 2025
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    The winners of the 2025 International Booker Prize are breaking boundaries.

    By Brittany Allen  May 22, 2025
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    You See? Generative AI is Bad At Doing My Job

    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
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
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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 Lit Hub Podcast: Summer Reading and Writing Buddies

    Featuring Molly Odintz, Calvin Kasulke, Isaac Fellman, and Drew Broussard

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 23, 2025
    Underreported

    Eve L. Ewing and pals are buying a Chicago bookstore.

    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
    The Writing Life

    The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex

    By Benjamin Davis  May 7, 2025
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    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
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    The week’s book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  May 2, 2025
    The Lit Hub Podcast

    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Leaving Twitter, Publishing Poetry, and… Men Who Read?

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   May 2, 2025
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    Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

    By Literary Hub  May 1, 2025
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    Pullman hive, attention! We’re getting one last Dark Material.

    By Brittany Allen  April 29, 2025
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    The new Conduit Books plans to focus on male authors.

    By James Folta  April 28, 2025
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    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

    By Drew Broussard  April 25, 2025
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    New on the Lit Hub Podcast: Celebrating Indie Bookstore Day!

    By The Lit Hub Podcast   April 25, 2025
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    Five incredible books edited by Toni Morrison.

    By Brittany Allen  April 24, 2025
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    Tommy Orange has won the Aspen Words Literary Prize for Wandering Stars.

    By Literary Hub  April 24, 2025
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    Here’s the shortlist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize.

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2025
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    A literary guide to the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

    By Brittany Allen  April 22, 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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