When we were but children in a distant former colony, we had a set of cardboard coronation crowns upholstered poorly in imitation velvet so we could play kings and queens. The Queen was on our money, and her portrait hung Read more >
Guess who made it out of committee? On Wednesday, the Illinois state legislature passed House Bill 2789, which would ensure libraries or schools that remove books from their shelves do so with the knowledge they shall ~shelve~ the state grant Read more >
Respect and support to Wasilla, Alaska’s Black Birch Books, who’re getting a lot of online flack for announcing a drag story time in June. But despite a slew of negative, and sometimes threatening, comments and reviews, Black Birch owner Taylor 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 >
Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover from Katherine Min’s novel, The Fetishist, which will be published by Putnam in January 2024. Min’s debut novel Secondhand World was a runner-up for the PEN-Bingham Award in 2007. Writer Cathy Park Hong met Min in 2009 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 >
I love this. Legendary UK publisher Faber Editions has reissued Sven Holm’s 1967 dystopian classic, Termush, which is set at “a luxury hotel at the end of the world.” So why not set up a fake hotel website that looks Read more >
Does Taika Waititi ever sleep? It seems like every other week brings news that the Oscar-winning New Zealander has attached himself to another Hollywood project. Time Bandits, Interior Chinatown, The Incal, Thor 6: OMGods, some Glup Shitto Star Wars nonsense…the list goes Read more >
The 2023 Tony nominations are out and include the Jessica Chastain revival of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (also with Succession’s Arian Moayed), and your old friend Tom Stoppard. The nominations for best new play are: Ain’t No Mo’ by 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 >
As May begins, bringing the promise of brighter and warmer weather to many of us—weather often perfect for reading outside—there are, as ever, a lot of exciting new books out. Should you indeed head out to read—or cozily stay inside—consider Read more >
Telling good stories in games is really hard. It’s hard in any medium, of course, but games provide a set of challenges over and above those faced by novelists and screenwriters. Take the question of agency—if the player is allowed 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) Read more >
It’s a new month, and that means, amongst other things, that a lot of wonderful, exciting, thought-provoking titles are finally being released in paperback. The titles below span a wide range, including authors old and new, established and promising. I Read more >
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction has been running for 25 years, recognizing the best work of non-fiction each year with a tidy sum of £25,000. This year, to celebrate its quarter century, the prize looked back on its previous Read more >
Neil Gaiman has his first full-length album coming out, a collaboration with Australian indie string quartet FourPlay called Signs of Life. Gaiman, obviously, has tried his hand at all kinds of writing—adapted myth, tv, comics—and has now written a record’s Read more >
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