On Wednesday, the 41st John Dos Passos Prize was awarded to Uruguayan American writer Carolina De Robertis (The President and the Frog; Cantoras; The Gods of Tango) by Longwood University. The Dos Passos Prize is the oldest literary award given by a Read more >
Prime Video dropped an official teaser trailer for the new Daisy Jones & the Six series today, featuring “Regret Me,” one of 24 original songs created for the show based on song lyrics written by the book’s author, Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Lesson Read more >
Hello there. Perhaps you clicked on this link because you have heard people cite Shakespeare on the necessity of killing all the lawyers and wonder if it’s a myth. Or maybe you suspect it’s one of those misquoted aphorisms, the Read more >
Florida—a state whose governor recently signed a book deal with HarperCollins’ Broadside Books—has, incredibly, descended even further into dystopia as HB 1467, a bill signed into law in March, went into effect. The law disallows teachers from making decisions about Read more >
Do you know the name J.R. Moehringer? Even if you don’t, I can guarantee you’ve heard of the books he’s written: maybe Open, Andre Agassi’s memoir? Or how about Shoe Dog, with legendary Nike founder Phil Knight? No? Ok, fine. Read more >
There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than existing IP—thus, the Oscars are historically adaptation-friendly. Last year, 50% of the Best Picture nominations were based on books and plays; in 2016, it was 63%. According to Adam Morgan at the Chicago Review of Read more >
The internet is awash in rankings (hi!) of virtually anything and everything you can think of. This, of course, includes literary journals, those wonderfully hopeful, underfunded labors of love that serve as beacons of potential to otherwise benighted short story Read more >
The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards are here! Overall, it’s a good batch, with only a few glaring omissions. Let’s break it down. And watch the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET. BEST PICTURE All Read more >
Today, Chicago-based arts organization United States Artists announced their 45 2023 USA Fellows, a group that includes four Writing Fellows, each of whom will receive an unrestricted cash award of $50,000. Previous USA Writing Fellows include Kiese Laymon, Claudia Rankine, Read more >
Cat Person, the Emilia Jones- and Nicholas Braun-starring movie adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s mega-viral 2017 New Yorker short story about a twenty-year-old woman who has a brief and unpleasant fling with a shlubby manchild his thirties, premiered at Sundance on Saturday. Read more >
If you need us, we’ll be at the bookstore. If we’re not at the bookstore, we’ll be reading these amazing books. Please do not disturb. * Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture (Black Cat) “Mesmerizing … Living in ‘an era of Read more >
If you’ve ever dreamed of being cool enough to go to Sundance (same), I’ve got good news for you: you can buy tickets for virtual screenings for only $20 a pop! This year’s fest has an enticing lineup, as always, Read more >
Late last week, a new profile of boygenius—the “world’s most exciting supergroup,” in case you didn’t know, consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker—reminded us all that they are huge book nerds. (They also dropped some new music, Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Shannon Sanders’ debut story collection, Company, which Graywolf Press calls “a richly detailed, brilliantly woven collection about the lives and lore of one Black family.” Here’s some more from the publisher about Read more >
It’s not hugely surprising, given their songwriting styles, but everyone’s favorite millennial supergroup—Boygenius, aka Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker—is really into reading. According to this Rolling Stone cover profile, the first bonding moment between Dacus and Baker was… Read more >
You’ve known and loved her as Donna Meagle in Parks and Rec and Ruby Hill in Good Girls, and now Retta is set to play a crime-solving Bookstagrammer in NBC’s forthcoming Murder by the Book. This series (brought to us by Good Girls Read more >
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