The New York Times today announced that Pamela Paul, who has headed the paper’s Books section and hosted the Book Review podcast since 2013, will be moving to Times Opinion as part of the paper’s expansion of its columnist ranks. Read more >
The New Literary Project has announced the shortlist of five finalists for its 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which awards a mid-career author of fiction “who has earned an extraordinarily distinguished reputation and garnered the widespread appeal of readers.” Prize Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Suad Amiry’s new novel, Mother of Strangers, which will be published by Penguin Random House this August. Mother of Strangers, based on a true story, follows the lives of 15-year-old mechanic Read more >
Generations of young readers—and their parents—fondly recall Reading Rainbow, the LeVar Burton-hosted show developed as a response to the “summer [literacy] loss phenomenon.” From 1983 to 2006, when it initially ran on PBS, it racked up 26 Emmys, and now, Read more >
Books may or may not foster empathy (if you feel like fighting on Twitter, just claim they do, you monster) but when used in significant numbers they can insulate you from many things: cold, wind, stupidity, and… incoming shrapnel. According Read more >
As war in Ukraine continues, it’s crucial to keep reading, publishing, and listening to the country’s authors. This Friday, March 4, PEN America is hosting a reading on Zoom that will bring together American and Ukrainian authors in solidarity. Paul Read more >
Writer and translator Artem Chapeye sent the following earlier this week in response to recently resurfaced comments by Noam Chomsky about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Chomsky has been a clear and much-needed critic of American imperialism over the Read more >
In a move that seems certain to piss everyone off, Dr. Seuss Enterprises yesterday announced that a series of unpublished sketches by the late Cat in the Hat author will serve as inspiration for a new line of children’s books Read more >
You might remember Miss Havisham, the withered, angry villain of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. (Incredibly, in the book, she is “scarcely forty” . . . which was never that old!) Miss Havisham, made monstrous by her spinsterhood, is almost caricaturish Read more >
Last February, Astra Publishing House announced their new literary magazine, Astra Magazine, billed as “the international magazine of literature.” Helmed by Nadja Spiegelman, former online editor of The Paris Review and author of I’m Supposed to Protect You from All Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Laura Warrell’s debut novel Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, which will be published by Pantheon in fall 2022. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm follows Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school Read more >
Ding dong! The wicked witch is dead! Or at least, it will no longer linger on our streets. Amazon dot com has just announced that it plans to close all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores in the US and the Read more >
John Boyne, writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, is releasing a sequel to the novel on September 15, 2022. All The Broken Places will be published by Doubleday and Penguin Random House in the U.S., Transworld in the Read more >
Every now and then, when the world is too much with us, I am able to find some small comfort in a very local, very sweet news story. So it is that I enjoyed today’s report of 7-year-old Inara Petroulis, Read more >
In an age when the phrase “just asking questions” can serve as a helpful shorthand for “being a total dick on the internet,” I couldn’t help but wonder: is the question… up to the mark? Terrible Sex and the City jokes aside, Read more >
Eager to crack the spine on one of Olga Tokarczuk’s many acclaimed novels but unsure of where to begin? Packing for a vacation and want to make sure your Olga T book selection is the right one? Game show host just Read more >
Bob Odenkirk: standup, satirist, dramatic actor, action star, and now, memoirist. Odenkirk’s book Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, detailing his multifaceted career from standup comic to Saturday Night Live writer to surprise dramatic actor and Better Call Saul star, is out Read more >
Of course you have binge-watched every single episode of Love Is Blind‘s second season by now. You’ve felt for Danielle in her hot dog costume. You’ve cheered on Iyanna and Jarette (okay, mostly Iyanna). You’ve been afraid Shayne would spend Read more >
Over 1,000 writers worldwide, including Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, and Salman Rushdie, have signed an open letter released by PEN International condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and “call[ing] for an end to the bloodshed.” “We stand united in condemnation of Read more >
The winners of the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards were presented last night at The Town Hall in New York City, in a ceremony hosted by Seth Meyers. Selected by jury, more than 40 writers and translators were recognized; as Read more >
