Like we needed another reason to love libraries: with book bans ramping up in school systems around the country, the Brooklyn Public Library is taking steps to make its massive catalog available to as many young people as possible. Right Read more >
It’s been a banner season for scammers! From Inventing Anna and The Dropout to The Tinder Swindler and Bad Vegan, there is certainly no shortage of these off-the-wall stories with twists and turns so unexpected that they could only come from Read more >
The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for its twenty-second annual Young Lions Fiction Award, which is given each year to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or a collection of short stories. Read more >
Tonight, The Story Prize announced that the 2021 winner is Brandon Taylor for Filthy Animals. The Story Prize’s $20,000 top prize is among the largest first-prize amounts of any annual U.S. book award for fiction. Now in it’s 18th year, Read more >
Amy Winehouse was an avowed bookstore browser and book-lover—in a 2007 interview, she told The Guardian that she never traveled without a good book. “I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.” Read more >
The National Book Foundation has released its annual list of the “5 Under 35,” a group of five fiction writers under the age of 35 “whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” Each winner Read more >
As part of the promotional tour for his new film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas Cage participated in an AMA on Reddit on Saturday, April 9th (which went viral on twitter thanks to dogged coverage from Jenn Jordan). For Read more >
In a Tuesday statement, Bitch Media announced that they will cease all operations in June 2022. According to the staff’s statement, the decision was made after a “multitude of challenges” over recent years, and the sad conclusion was reached “despite Read more >
Rooneyheads, rejoice: Hulu’s finally announced the premiere date for their limited series adaptation of Conversations with Friends: May 15th, a mere four-and-a-half weeks away. The announcement came with an extended trailer featuring a new song by Phoebe Bridgers, for which Read more >
Lockdowns in China, which has been pursuing a zero-covid approach to the pandemic in recent months, are unlike anything Americans have experienced. In the name of mass contact tracing, the Chinese government has been severely restricting movement for millions of Read more >
Today, the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers announced its new class of fellows, selected from a pool of 356 applicants from 37 countries. The class of 2022 includes: · Academics Daphne A. Read more >
Cafés can be lovely places to grab a coffee and a snack while you noodle around with your writing project, but the thing they’ve long been missing is cold, hard accountability. Well, no more, thanks to The Manuscript Writing Cafe! Read more >
America is awash in book bans. It’s awful. The consolidation of Republican power in state and local government has worked, and we’re all suffering for it. But aside from getting involved in local politics, and donating to advocacy groups, what Read more >
It’s already been a long week, but apparently it’s only Tuesday. Ah, well. At least that means new books! Hello, retail therapy. * Liana Finck, Let There Be Light (Random House) “An irreverent yet profound retelling of the Book of Read more >
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation recently announced the recipients of its 2022 fellowships, chosen through a peer-review process from nearly 2,500 applicants. Of the 180 recipients—“these successful applicants were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise”—25 Read more >
Does the following really sound like contemporary American conservatism to you? Dawn of the Brave, which is aimed at children age 6 to 10, helps readers recognize that everyone has strengths and weakness, but teamwork allows people to come together Read more >
Because we can never resist adding another line item to the eternal ledger of what we owe libraries: Californians can now use their library cards to get free entry into state parks! The three-year pilot program will give libraries (including Read more >
Seven years ago today, Literary Hub launched during AWP Minneapolis. If you’d told any of us we’d be around and thriving seven years on (outside and beyond being a purveyor of desirable tote bags)… well, we’d believe you (because why Read more >
Good morning! I have amazing news. It turns out that author, actor, esteemed Sherlockian, NBA-all-time-leading scorer, NAACP Image Award-nominee, Presidential Medal of Freedom-recipient, and all-around Renaissance man Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an episode of Veronica Mars. From the new season! It Read more >
The International Booker Prize just announced its shortlist for this year’s award, which goes to “the finest fiction from around the world” to be published in English translation and grants a £50,000 prize (split between an author and translator). Judges Read more >
