Though James Baldwin is best known and loved for his novels, essays, and oratory, he is not frequently remembered as a great film critic—though, as Noah Berlatsky wrote in The Atlantic, he should be. In 1976, Baldwin published The Devil The Exorcist.">Read more >
Just look at them: all these new books, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and waiting for you to give them a good home. They promise to make excellent company. * Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different (Viking) “A bildungsroman, a Read more >
Finally: community you can enjoy from your couch! * In Conversation: Michelle Tea and Torrey Peters August 1 (tonight!) @ 7pm EST Michelle Tea’s latest, Knocking Myself Up, hits shelves tomorrow. Tonight, you can see her in conversation with Torrey Peters Read more >
As you all undoubtedly know, Britney Spears landed a $15 million book deal with Simon & Schuster earlier this year. Her untitled memoir is apparently already finished(!) and her team was vying for a January 2023 release date… until the Read more >
Stephen King is set to testify on behalf of the Department of Justice against the proposed merger (acquisition?) of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. King, who is published by Scribner, an S&S imprint, is likely to articulate one Read more >
Yep, you guessed it: “Barefoot Bookseller,” the greatest job in the literary world, is once again accepting applications. Would you like to run a bookstore on a desert island in the Maldives for a year? What if I told you Read more >
The Princess Diaries was first released on this day in 2001, and because it’s based on a book, that officially means I can write about it for literary hub dot com and no one can stop me. My fellow ’90s Read more >
Yes, it’s Tingle Time. One of my all-time favorite literary personalities, the greatest self-published author to ever live, Chuck Tingle, has signed a two-novel deal with Tor’s Nightfire imprint. Per the Publishers Marketplace announcement, the first book, Camp Damascus, is Read more >
July 30 is officially Paperback Book Day! It’s apparently the day that Penguin started publishing paperbacks, way back in 1935. And what a glorious day it was! Who doesn’t love paperbacks? They feel so nice in your hands! They fit Read more >
Watched by all. Seen by none. As I wrote last month when the first teaser trailer dropped, hopes are high for Andrew Domink’s NC-17 adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ gargantuan work of historical bio-fiction. Now, with the release of an action-packed Read more >
New York City’s Center for Fiction today announced the longlist for its prestigious First Novel Prize, which has, since 2006, honored the best debut fiction of the year. The twenty-four nominated debut novels—which include Leila Mottley’s Nightcrawling, Fatimah Asghar’s When Read more >
Today, The New York Times announced that current Culture editor Gilbert Cruz will be the paper’s next Books editor, replacing Pamela Paul, who left the role in March. “Gilbert spent the past four years bringing important changes to our arts report, diversifying Read more >
Oh good, now there’s an app to buy books as NFTs. And if you were to purchase said NFT ebook, your book would live on the blockchain where, according to a press release from Web3.0 start-up Book Tokens, it would Read more >
Chinese poet and activist Zhang Guiqi, also known by his penname Lu Yang, who posted a video in which he called on President Xi Jinping to step down, has been sentences to six years in prison. Lu Yang was convicted Read more >
The shortlist for the first Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize is here, featuring works “of imaginative fiction” from nine authors. Five jurors—adrienne maree brown, Becky Chambers, Molly Gloss, David Mitchell, and Luis Alberto Urrea—will select a winner for the Read more >
I know what you’re thinking: “In this economy/pandemic/apocalypse?” The answer, of course, being “When else?” Today I learned that, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn will be hosting a Gone Girl-themed cruise, along the Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel, The Nursery, forthcoming from Pantheon in March 2023. The novel, a “visceral and revelatory portrait of a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness,” follows Read more >
While we do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Skyhorse, publisher of Sandy Hook deniers, anti-vaxxers, January 6th conspiracy theorists, and Woody Allen—their brand is extremely consistent. To wit: they will be publishing another book by disgraced biographer Blake Read more >
A star-studded 1972 table plan for a New School dinner honoring Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was recently unearthed by Dr. Samantha Rose Hill (Hill is a scholar of Hannah Arendt, and knows a thing or two about archives; you should Read more >
A good movie tagline can be a work of art—and a bad one can be very funny. Hollywood has given us plenty of both over the years. But can you match the classic literary adaptation to its tagline? (Some of Read more >
