A trailer for the musical adaptation of Bernard Waber’s beloved children’s book, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile has dropped, and it’s… well, here it is: Though this website previously and breathlessly reported that Javier Bardem would be playing Lyle himself in the Read more >
Julie Otsuka is one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. I will die on this hill. Here at Literary Hub dot com, I have very adamantly and repeatedly made a case for The Buddha in the Attic Read more >
George Chauncey just became the first scholar of LGBTQ history to win the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, a $500,000 award for those whose work “advances understanding of the human experience.” Chauncey, the author Read more >
You know you’re an extremist when you get yourself fired from the Trump Administration for your ideological dalliances with white nationalist fascism. But don’t worry, Darren Beattie, you’ll always have a home at Skyhorse Publishing! The independent publisher, which has Read more >
In Jean-Paul Sartre’s novella The Childhood of a Leader, he wrote that there is “more destructive power” in pranks “than in all the works of Lenin.” Well, maybe if you are a headmaster who finds yourself unable to control a pack Read more >
It was always pretty apparent that Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov is not particularly concerned with state authority, and is willing to put his life in harm’s way in defense of the truth. A stalwart of Russia’s perpetually embattled independent Read more >
Ah, the work week again? At least there are only four days in this one, and at least it kicks off with the day new books are being released. * Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona (Penguin Press) “Moshfegh’s work resists being read Read more >
Honestly, I cannot believe I have not done this list yet because I (an adult) think about children’s books a lot, despite not having kids or really knowing any. (The pandemic hit before the majority of my colleagues procreated, so Read more >
A website called CatholicVote is telling its readers to hide books in library displays that have anything to do with the lives of queer people or people of color. This month, of course, the focus of their fragile and bigoted Read more >
This weekend is Father’s Day, and while I could recommend some World War II books you could buy last-minute, instead I’m going to recommend that you read one of the few examples we have of actually good fathering among the Read more >
To celebrate the release of Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Knopf built a real-life version of one of the games in the book. It is . . . weirdly addicting, and also weirdly fun. Especially if you grew Read more >
Kalani Pickhart’s novel I Will Die in a Foreign Land is the winner of this year’s Young Lions Fiction Award, given by the New York Public Library every year to a writer under 35 for a novel or short story Read more >
Australian novelist John Hughes—who, as The Guardian reported earlier this week, plagiarized sections of his novel The Dogs from the extremely obscure novels All Quiet on the Western Front, Anna Karenina, and The Great Gatsby—has offered a rebuttal to claim(/fact) that he is Read more >
Finally, after months of waiting, we have footage Blonde—the hotly-anticipated Netflix movie adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ mammoth work of historical bio-fiction. Helmed by darkly-cerebral Australian director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James, Mindhunter), the buzz around Blonde has been Read more >
Vladimir Nabokov is a well-documented complainer. He’s one of the few writers I think would have been good at Twitter (sorry to almost everyone else, living or dead). Actually, he would have delegated it to Véra, who would have gotten Read more >
Forefront Books and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives are teaming up to form Frederick Douglass Books, a publishing imprint meant to “establish a pathway for Black and Brown authors” into the publishing industry, the two organizations announced in a press Read more >
Ruth Ozeki has a number of accolades under her belt: novelist, filmmaker, Zen Buddhist priest, and now Women’s Prize winner. Her fourth novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, was declared the victor at a ceremony in London earlier today. Read more >
Publishing can feel like an impossible industry to break into. Actually, even the fact that we’re phrasing it like that is indicative of the problem. The gates are closed to a lot of people—notably, people of color. On Saturday, the Read more >
So we beat on, writers against our deadlines, born back ceaselessly into the pages of extremely well-known novels. Yes, I will take any excuse to mangle the closing line of The Great Gatsby, but at least I credit my source Read more >
Emotionally naked that is. Get your minds out of the gutter. Earlier this morning Amazon dropped the first teaser trailer for My Policeman, the hotly-anticipated new Harry Styles drama based on the 2012 romance novel by Bethan Roberts. Described as Read more >
