Here’s something fun I learned today: much like poor unfortunate Tessie Hutchinson at the close of “The Lottery“—the (second?) most famous short story in New Yorker history—all Shirley Jackson Award finalists get stoned. Now, when I say “stoned,” I’m not Read more >
For you on Valentine’s Day, an oldie but a goodie: an anonymous 1918 suffragette’s extremely tart list of advice to young ladies considering marriage—which you may remember if you were on the internet at all a few years ago, and Read more >
Clear your schedules! This week, we see the publication of new books by Zadie Smith, Greta Thunberg, Alejandro Zambra, and more! * Zadie Smith, The Wife of Willesden (Penguin) “A triumph of dramatic creativity … a total delight. Highly recommended.” Read more >
Last week an earthquake struck Turkey and Syria. As an agent and translator who works with international writers and publishers, I began to hear from many of my colleagues, so I decided to write a message to them. When I Read more >
Today, the Gotham Book Prize, an annual award that began during the first year of the pandemic to honor and support the best writing about New York City, announced its eleven 2023 finalists. “There’s no other city that has the Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and Center for Fiction and VCU Cabell First Novel prize finalist Lydia Kiesling’s second novel, Mobility, which this August will be the first book Read more >
Percival Everett, one of the country’s most prolific and critically acclaimed “writer’s writers,” has just inked a deal for what seems certain to be his highest profile novel to date. James, Everett’s 24th novel, has been pitched as “a harrowing and Read more >
Today, in casting news that just feels right: Kristen Stewart will be starring as Susan Sontag in a biopic based on Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 biography Sontag: Her Life and Work. Kristen Stewart is no stranger to biopics, having starred, most Read more >
Yesterday morning, The Washington Post’s Ron Charles published a summary of “what readers hate most in books“—the result, Charles tells us, of asking the readers of the Post’s Book Club newsletter to write in with their pet peeves. “The responses Read more >
Beloved dad-rocker Jeff Tweedy is no stranger to publishing: he has two previous titles under his belt about his life in music, one a memoir of his time with Wilco, the other about the art of songwriting. (Perhaps my favorite Read more >
The Academy Awards approach. And so, as we’ve done in the past, we have been preparing for the Fake Oscars by thinking about the Real Oscars: that’s right, the Book Oscars. Er, the Book Oscars that aren’t the National Book Read more >
Because there’s nothing I love more than finding community from the comfort of my couch (especially when the temperature is in the single digits). * Celebrating Salman Rushdie’s Victory City February 9 (tomorrow!) @ 6:30pm EST Join Margaret Atwood and Read more >
The people behind the Women’s Prize for Fiction have created a parallel award for nonfiction. According to The Telegraph, The prize was devised after research by the Women’s Prize Trust found that female writers in these genres made up only Read more >
Here’s a cool one. Dame Helen Mirren—the Oscar-winning star of The Queen, Gosford Park, Hitchcock, and, most recently, something called Shazam! Fury of the Gods—is set to star as the poet of apprehension herself, Patricia Highsmith, in an upcoming thriller Read more >
The estate of the great Larry McMurtry—who left this dusty, low-slung vale of tears in 2021—will be auctioning off some of the author’s possessions, including 14 of the Hermes 3000 portable typewriters that McMurtry personally thanked in his 2006 Golden Read more >
Big week for new books, with new titles from Salman Rushdie, Mariana Enriquez, Stephen Graham Jones, Priscilla Gilman, and more. * Salman Rushdie, Victory City (Random House) “What’s important is that Victory City is a triumph—not because it exists, but because Read more >
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