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Exclusive cover reveal: Here's the cover for Elysha Chang's A Quitter’s Paradise.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise, the first book on Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, forthcoming in June 2023. This debut novel examines the grief of a young woman desperate to Read more >

By Eloise King-Clements

This previously unpublished CD Wright poem is filled with beauty and sadness.

I didn’t know I needed it this morning, but here is a previously unpublished poem by the late and truly great CD Wright (gone too soon). The poem, called “Abandon Yourself to That Which is Inevitable,” appears in the Spring Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

On this day in literary history, Anthony Trollope died of the giggles. (For real.)

Let this be a warning to any and all holiday revelers, particularly those standing near my window while I’m desperately hoping the baby stays asleep: turns out you can laugh yourself to death. And let this be a warning to Read more >

By Emily Temple

17 new books to invigorate your December reading.

At the beginning of every month, I make a silly little pile of books that I’m hoping to read in the next 30-ish days. Inevitably, the pile is always like 20 books tall and I only end up reading a Read more >

By Katie Yee

We did it!! “Goblin mode” is Oxford's Word of the Year.

A few weeks ago, the Oxford English Dictionary people did something unprecedented: they let the public vote on the Word of the Year. The finalists were: #IStandWith, metaverse, and goblin mode. As you may recall, Lit Hub stood firmly behind Read more >

By Katie Yee

For your holiday to-do list: Donate to the HarperCollins Union Solidarity Fund.

Photo by Rye White. As we enter what’s basically the last serious working week for corporate publishing (for some, anyway), it’s important to note that as of now, HarperCollins has yet to meet with any of its 250 or so Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Is this the best library Instagram in America?

I love the Milwaukee Public Library Instagram and you should too: somehow they’ve achieved the perfect mix of try-hard theater kid, unhinged meme lord, and zen boomer TikTok savant. Head over here to see for yourself, but below are a Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Tiya Miles is the winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize.

Tonight, in a ceremony at the Windsor Ballrooms in Montreal, Tiya Miles was awarded the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, which recognizes the best history writing in English, for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Read more >

By Literary Hub

Beowulf Sheehan on what it was like to photograph Cormac McCarthy.

On the occasion of the Center for Fiction Exhibition, Beowulf Sheehan reflects on his experience photographing Cormac McCarthy: Alone in my studio on July 22, 2014, I dial his number. Cormac McCarthy’s voice is gentle, our conversation congenial. We discuss Read more >

By Beowulf Sheehan

10 paperbacks coming out this December.

Unfold the blankets, brew some coffee, and get ready for another solid month of paperback releases. (Doubles as an ICYMI gift guide.) * Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land (Ecco, December 6) “Everyone is extraordinary, a singular beast in Read more >

By Katie Yee

Elon Musk listens to professional troll Andy Ngo and bans anarchist publisher from Twitter.

Things at Twitter are going just fine! Remember when master tunnel-builder, confirmed monkey-killer, and brand new owner of Twitter Elon Musk told us all he’d be “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints…”? Well, apparently by “widely diverse Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

Guy who loves book bans is publishing a book.

Countless Republican politicians—who have never read anything longer than a pamphlet about how despite what the Bible says, Jesus actually hated poor people—have published entire books. Still, there’s something especially grotesque about Ron DeSantis, governor of the state with the Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor

Your guide to December's free virtual literary events.

Winter is coming, and we are not leaving our homes (but still want to attend book events)! * The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit-Feminist Led Celebration & Discussion December 1 @ 7:30pm EST To celebrate the publication of Thenmozhi Soundararajan’s Read more >

By Katie Yee

Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch is coming to the screen.

The Fall of Tess Gunty (I speak of Autumn, not ruination) continues apace with news that the Indiana author’s much-ballyhooed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch—the story of a group of residents of a low-income housing community in a fictional Indiana town Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

8 new books for your reading pleasure.

Time to get cozy with this perfect octet of new books. * Michael Kimmelman, The Intimate City: Walking New York (Penguin Press) “New York City comes alive in this scintillating collection of conversations between New York Times architecture critic Kimmelman Read more >

By Katie Yee

n+1's Bookmatch has perfect book recommendations for you (and every protagonist in your life).

In case the barrage of Cyber Monday emails from every store you’ve ever patronized (or thought about patronizing, or accidentally landed on while searching for “normal pants”) on the internet has you on the verge of declaring a moratorium on Read more >

By Jessie Gaynor