Swansea University has announced its shortlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. The £20,000 prize celebrates work written in the English language across the world by authors aged 39 or under, and this year, the shortlist includes three debuts. The Read more >
Old Lion Publishing, a book publisher based in Lviv, Ukraine, has created a campaign to collect funds for books that they will distribute among Ukrainian children who are living as refugees. More than four million Ukrainians have fled the country Read more >
Putting all overachieving kids to shame forever, Charlotte Brontë and her siblings created a series of tiny books when they were children that have since become highly coveted—and very expensive—objects in the world of antiquarian book collection. Though many of Read more >
New hero alert: Wong May, the winner of this year’s $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in poetry, who expressed surprise at the award given than she has consciously eschewed the literary world in favor of the work itself. On the Windham-Campbell website, Read more >
A small mystery: last week, writers on Twitter discovered that many LGBTQ+ books were been missing from Target’s website after previously being listed on the site for pre-order. In his Twitter thread, debut author Brian D. Kennedy (author of A Read more >
You, avid reader of this site, obviously know how obsessed we are with Taylor Swift. We have dedicated a fair amount of time to recommending books and writers based off your favorite album by her. After all, she’s the perfect Read more >
Are you exhausted? Do you want to cancel all your plans and just curl up and read? Well, the good news is, friends: you probably can! These 15 new titles are sure to provide excellent company as you recharge this Read more >
Eight months after the launch of Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic seeking to publish “beautifully written, provocative, intelligent, [risky]” writing, Roxane Gay Books has announced its first list: it will publish three novels in 2023, from Ani Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut story collection What We Fed to the Manticore, which will be published by Tin House this September. Tin House describes What We Fed to the Manticore as a collection Read more >
On the topic of banned books (ha ha): as the Standard reported, the Charles Dickens Museum’s account is now visible on TikTok after a censorship mix-up, shadowban, and subsequent Twitter campaign to #FreeDickens. Anybody who has any experience with social Read more >
The wave of book bans and paranoia that books “corrupt” American kids is not slowing down—and neither is bad-faith engagement with librarians. A bill just passed the Oklahoma House that would require school librarians to turn over minors’ checkout records Read more >
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be delighted for Jesse Plemons and his recent spate of professional/personal successes. The tawny-haired Texan—who possesses a unique ability to convey both warm, slightly wounded vulnerability and utterly dead-eyed psychopathy, Read more >
This Thursday, a hybrid event hosted by the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, Goethe-Institut Boston, the German Consulate in Boston, and AGNI will feature writers from Ukraine. The seven Ukrainian writers, including five Zooming in from within Ukraine, are Read more >
Here’s a nice mid-week lift for fans of John le Carré: Viking will publish A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré, edited by his son Tim Cornwell, on Nov. 8. The book sounds like it has plenty to Read more >
The Dutch publisher of a new book, which proposes that Anne Frank’s family was betrayed by a Jewish man in their community, has dropped it after a group of historians and academics published a long statement discrediting its underlying research. Read more >
This fall is shaping up to be a very exciting time for new books by beloved writers—we’ll be getting two new novels by Cormac McCarthy, a new collection by George Saunders, and, as announced by Doubleday today, a new standalone Read more >
In unsurprising—but nevertheless extremely depressing—news, yesterday’s senate confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, saw Ted Cruz haranguing Jackson about (what else?) Critical Race Theory. Cruz’s extremely flimsy pretext for introducing Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer-winning author Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel Lucy by the Sea, which will be published by Random House this September. In Lucy by the Sea, Strout follows Lucy—the protagonist of My Name Read more >
The book that spent 150—yes, 150!—weeks on the New York Times bestseller list is coming to theaters this July. The movie adaptation for Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing finally has a shiny new trailer! You know Daisy Edgar-Jones from Read more >
This morning, Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the winners of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, which have honored the best in American nonfiction writing since 1998. The J. Anthony Lukas Read more >
