Despite the fact that Jared Kushner’s recent memoir Breaking History “reminded [Dwight Garner] of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo,” and the fact that it’s, you know, a book ostensibly written by Jared Kushner, we were not surprised to see Read more >
Tonight, the 2022 winner of the Booker Prize, the biggest literary prize in the UK, will be announced in a ceremony hosted by comedian Sophie Duker and featuring a keynote speech by Dua Lipa. So who will win the £50,000, Read more >
Russian publishers—specifically, an organization called the Russian Book Union (RKC)—are concerned that a new “LGBQT Propaganda” bill could lead to the banning of Russian classics by the likes of Dostoevsky and Bulgakov. According to independent Russian news organization Meduza: …the Read more >
Craig Finn is the lead singer of a band called The Hold Steady and I have always loved his songwriting. Finn is something like a poet laureate of Midwestern malaise, extracting tragicomic pathos from a particular kind of exurban fuckery Read more >
L’Engle-lovin’ theater kids of the world, rejoice: a stage musical of A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most acclaimed and beloved children’s books of the 20th century, is in the works. The adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbury Award-winning 1962 novel Read more >
The T. S. Eliot Prize, the prestigious literary prize that honors new poetry collections in the UK, has announced its shortlist of 10 books. Judges Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson determined the shortlist from a record submission pool Read more >
It started when Cara Caddoo, a film scholar, noticed that a few moments in a century-old film didn’t look quite right. Her questions grew into a major discovery, announced this week by the Library of Congress: that the oldest surviving Read more >
Most of the editors at well-established literary journal Hobart resigned yesterday [UPDATE: the resignation letter was deleted by the new editor but will be reposted soon] over a recent interview published at the site. The interview—with writer Alex Perez—was conducted Read more >
Some exciting spring book news: Random House will publish Curtis Sittenfeld’s seventh novel in April. And as both a Sittenfeld completist and an unabashed rom-com lover (NB: this does not include Netflix rom-coms), I’m very excited by both the novel’s Read more >
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 25 recipients of its 2022 fellowships (colloquially known as the “genius grant”), and as ever, the group represents a fascinating array of people at the tops of their diverse fields. Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Jai Chakrabarti’s A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, forthcoming from Penguin Random House in February 2023. The book, comprised of 14 short stories, details what family means today across cultures, continents, Read more >
In Jordan Kisner’s recent, long profile of Cate Blanchett for The New York Times, there’s a fascinating detail that came and went so quickly that it was almost easy to miss: Blanchett is, apparently, working on a stage version of Lucy Read more >
The Paris Review has announced that Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and is given to “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Mona Read more >
Big news for the (in my experience, huge) Venn diagram center of book lovers and Top Chef fans: Padma Lakshmi will host this year’s National Book Awards. Lakshmi is the bestselling author of multiple cookbooks as well as a children’s book Read more >
A new trailer (below) for Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s Women Talking just dropped and it’s beautiful. Whereas the novel—which is brilliant—can have an almost claustrophobic feeling, Polley seems to be letting the light in a bit, evoking the Read more >
In case you didn’t notice all the costumes on the subway, New York Comic Con, the nerdiest event of the year, was held last weekend at New York City’s Javits Center. As always, the four day convention was full of Read more >
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