Emma Straub—novelist, bookstore-owner, children’s book author, and all-round nice person—was uninvited from reading at Texas elementary schools because of her use of “foul language” on social media. In an email to parents, administrators from the Katy Independent School District (in Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Periplus Fellows, selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants. This year, Periplus awarded a total of 55 mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Nishanth Injam’s debut short story collection, The Best Possible Experience, which Pantheon calls an “astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and Read more >
Rumor has it that bestselling memoirist and plain ol’ bloke Prince Harry actually signed a four-book deal—so get ready for three more world-historically intense publicity cycles! As Tom Tivnan, managing editor of The Bookseller, told the Mirror UK: I believe Read more >
Other than working with writers to publish great books, the thing I was most looking forward to in creating Roxane Gay Books, was covers. For the first two titles, I commissioned Rodrigo Corral who has such a unique and bold Read more >
Featuring new books by Tsitsi Dangarembga, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Monica Heisey, as well as Bret Easton Ellis and Anne Waldman (big week for Bennington alums!). Happy browsing! * Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards (Knopf) “Sometimes horrifying, sometimes nostalgic and Read more >
Huh, apparently we have Florence Pugh to thank for John le Carré’s last book, Agent Running in the Field (are we just running out of spy thriller titles at this point?). As Pugh told writer Chloe Schama in a recent Read more >
There’s no denying that Colleen Hoover has had an incredible year. Still, despite the relentless appetite for her novels, it seems that the people do not, in fact, want a coloring book based on her number-one bestselling book It Ends With Read more >
For over 50 years, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been a beloved touchstone of coming-of-age literature. It’s honestly wild that it has never been adapted into a movie, but the whims of Hollywood satisfyingly explain Read more >
You don’t really have to do much at this point to absorb passages from Prince Harry’s public therapy tell-all trauma dump, Spare. So much of what’s in the book has already appeared in interviews, profiles and, thanks to a very Read more >
We all took up a new hobby during the pandemic, whether it was knitting, baking, pottery, woodcarving, running, mixology, rollerblading, or mirror typing ancient books in their original languages using an elaborate system of blank keyboards. Yes, for a while there Read more >
If your New Year’s resolution was something along the lines of: attend more events or be a better literary citizen, I have good news for you! Here are a handful of virtual events you can enjoy from the comfort of Read more >
Another trip around the sun, another year of bookselling. You’ve heard about the best books of 2022, but what about the bestsellers? Well, you’ve probably heard about a few of them too. Here’s the list of the 25 bestselling books Read more >
As someone in the throes of the humiliating exercise that is asking writers you admire to read your book and write nice things about it, I almost empathize with Mike Pompeo. In case you forgot (guilty!), Pompeo served as both the director Read more >
This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2023 finalists. “We continue to be astounded by the range and variety of short story collections we read each year. These three Read more >
Many years ago, I overheard a woman on the subway say that she tries to read 100 books every year. Personally, I’m much too slow to do that, but I think of her often and hope she’s well. Maybe she’ll Read more >
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