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 >
Down your blacksmith tools and shake the moths out of your wedding dress, because Olivia Colman (The Favorite, The Father) and Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Spencer) are bringing Big Dickens Energy back to our TV screens. Great Expectations—an upcoming BBC/FX Read more >
Everyone’s talking about Pedro Pascal this week—probably because of his star turn as Eddie in the 1999 season premiere of season four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (“The Freshman”), right? As you no doubt remember, in that episode, Eddie tells Buffy Read more >
Viola Davis, one of the best actors of her generation, achieved EGOT status last night at the Grammys when she went home with the hardware for Best Audiobook (Narration and Storytelling), for reading her own memoir, Finding Me. (EGOT is Read more >
Yup. The recent star of the absolutely charming series Sex Education is collecting the sexual fantasies of women as part of her plan to reprise Nancy Friday’s 1973 book, The Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies. Friday’s book, which was groundbreaking Read more >
This morning, The Cut published its definitive guide to contemporary etiquette, from ghosting to tipping to navigating varying levels of COVID caution. The list contained plenty of fascinating and discourse-generating takeaways (though I haven’t yet seen anyone address the wild revelation Read more >
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