We all know that things are bad when it comes to widespread, targeted book-banning in America. It’s a free speech crisis unlike any we’ve seen in a generation, and follows in this country’s grand tradition of moral panic-as-national pastime. But Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
It’s another Tuesday, and this means that the shelves are packed, once again, with exciting new offerings. Below, you’ll find brand-new fiction and intriguing translations of lesser-known novels; new collections of poetry; and a wide range of memoirs and conversation-starting Read more >
Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years. Per reporting by Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: The ABA added 173 members last year, and now has 2,185 bookstore Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Alissa Hattman’s Sift, which will be published by The 3rd Thing in September. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Two women set out through the haze of social Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
It’s no wonder that book theft is on the rise in Florida, seeing as how Governor Ron DeSantis seems hellbent on making reading as hard as possible. So is anyone surprised a Florida couple (composed of a Florida Man and Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
Citing the danger of “unhealthy ideas” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is defending the clandestine removal of library books about the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, which saw upwards of a thousand deaths (estimates vary). All Read more >
Yes, after months, nay, years, of this single frame of Leo DiCaprio looking pensive at an old-timey dinner table being the sole visual representation of perhaps the most anticipated film of this still-young decade, Leo and Marty have finally released Read more >
Solidarity to members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East and West! ✊ The strike, which is now two weeks along, is perhaps the last stand against artists being replaced by AI bots, and one that will benefit labor Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >
News from the Cannes Film Festival: An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel (his last one) Across the River and Into the Trees has found a distributor in Bleeker Street. The novel centers on Colonel Richard Cantwell, a 50-year-old US Army Read more >
Kirk Cameron has had a tough year, not unlike poor, pregnant Mary. “We tried to go to libraries across the country and we’ve been turned away,” he told a church gathering this week in Charlotte, N.C., of touring his conservative Read more >
Benedict Cumberbatch—the Oscar-nominated star of Power of the Dog, The Imitation Game, and Patrick Melrose, as well as all of those epilepsy-inducing Marvel movies—has signed on to play the lead (not the crow) in an upcoming film adaptation of Max Read more >
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