Six countries, two debuts, and the tidy work of some translators: it’s time to turn eyes to the International Booker Prize (née Man Booker) shortlist, recognizing exceptional works published in the UK and Ireland in a language other than English. Read more >
April, astonishingly, is halfway over. Whether or not you agree with Eliot that April is the cruelest month, and thus that the month is either thankfully half-over, the undeniably non-cruel news is that a range of exciting new books is Read more >
When Ashley C. Ford showed up to the book club in March, she found an audience who had all read her 2021 bestseller, Somebody’s Daughter, and were primed for a lively discussion. “I gotta tell you, I’ve been to a Read more >
In a plot straight from a Cohen Brothers’ movie—think “high stakes/low IQ”—a former romance novel cover model has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for his violent role in the January 6 Capitol Insurrection. Logan James Barnhart, whose chest Read more >
Haruki Murakami started his latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, three years ago, during the pandemic—but he really started it over four decades ago, as a short story. “Because of the coronavirus,” he explained ahead of the novel’s release Read more >
Lit Hub Superfan Olivia Wilde is teaming up with powerhouse indie A24 to bring Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit From the Good Squad, as well as its 2022 sequel (of sorts) The Candy House, to the small screen. This will Read more >
This week, TIME magazine published its list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2023. And . . . it’s surprisingly literary! I mean, it’s not that literary, but considering that the TIME editors typically limit themselves to a single novelist among the Read more >
Ten years—ten years!—reliving JK Rowling’s journey from underdog pastiche to problematic bajillionaire seems like a lot, doesn’t it? And yet Max (formerly HBO Max) plans on sinking millions into a long-running reboot of the YA property. Obviously a lot happens Read more >
Salman Rushdie is made of sturdy stuff indeed. After a brutal attack at a reading in upstate NY in the summer of 2022, the author has been slowly recovering from his wounds, though, he tells Time in a new interview, Read more >
A new drop of choice up-and-coming novelists has arrived on the morning tide. Granta magazine has announced its 2023 Best of British Novelists list, geared to future stars, including picks from Sigrid Rausing, Rachel Cusk, Helen Oyeyemi, Tash Aw, and Read more >
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 25th class of Cullman Fellows. This year, the fellows were chosen from a group of 408 applicants from 51 countries; they will Read more >
Oprah has one. Questlove has one. Fearne Cotton and Sarah Jessica Parker each have one. Lena Dunham had one. And now Gillian Flynn is getting in on the imprint action. Gillian Flynn Books will be a new imprint at Zando, Read more >
Laura Cogan, the reigning editor at literary journal ZYZZYVA is set to step down after dedicating 10 years to the role as the sun rises on the reign of Oscar Villalon, the long-serving managing editor. Villalon has worked alongside Cogan Read more >
Olympian and WNBA star Brittney Griner will co-write a memoir about her experience being detained by Russia in 2022 while headed over to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg, Deadline reports. Griner was behind bars for 10 months as the diplomatic debacle Read more >
It’s technically been spring for a few weeks now, but here in the Northeast, it’s finally feeling like it. Daffodils are blooming, the grass is growing, and the sun is slowly returning my will to live. Three years ago around Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the Read more >
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