Well. Umm. Now’s your chance? Personally, it never occurred to me that I might have a midday chat with an AI version of poet Nikki Giovanni, but now—thanks to StoryFile’s Black Voices Collection—I can! Honestly, it’s not quite as weird Read more >
The pro-Trump, anti-vax pastor Greg Locke—who, after his recent ban for COVID misinformation, called Twitter “censorship Nazis”—organized and carried out a literal book burning last night in Mt. Juliet, TN, a suburb of Nashville. Locke—a true shitbag who recently claimed Read more >
This morning, Swansea University announced its longlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. Among UK’s most prestigious awards, the Dylan Thomas Prize celebrates work written in the English language from across the world by authors aged 39 or under, and Read more >
Ambo Anthos, the Dutch publisher of Rosemary Sullivan’s The Betrayal of Anne Frank, has indefinitely suspended printing of the book after central elements of research were called into question. The book’s thesis—that the Frank family’s location was leaked to the Read more >
If you have ever watched TV, it will come as no surprise to you that Hollywood is weirdly obsessed with books and the people who work around them. A lot of movies (especially rom-coms) revolve around bookstores (hello, You’ve Got Read more >
The PERIPLUS fellowship, a program for writers that are Black, Indigenous and people of color, is announcing its second class of fellows. This year, the PERIPLUS collective awarded the fellowship to 59 writers, who met with mentors every month to receive Read more >
Last week, in one of the latest events in a highly concerning wave of book bans sweeping the U.S., a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel about his father’s experience in the Holocaust, Read more >
It’s been much reported of late that America is in the middle of neo-puritanical book-banning frenzy. It’s horrifying but not unsurprising, particularly in the wake of a decades-long Republican strategy to consolidate power at the state and local level through Read more >
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who delight in every snowfall, who run through the banks and make angels as though they cannot feel the cold… and the ones who prefer to be indoor cats Read more >
Perhaps one of Austen fans’ favorite moments on film comes from an early scene in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It comes before any kisses or declarations: it’s when Mr. Darcy holds Elizabeth Bennett’s hand as he Read more >
I can’t believe they’re just letting poets walk in off the street these days and do science. This is clearly the only logical explanation for the latest paper in Nature which, among other things, makes the very poetic claim that Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Granta Best Young American Novelist winner Chinelo Okparanta’s new novel Harry Sylvester Bird, which will be published by Mariner Books this July. Mariner describes Harry Sylvester Bird as “a brilliant, provocative, Read more >
W. B. Yeats, the hopelessly romantic, doggedly priapic, Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and dramatist, died in the Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in the French Rivera town of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on this day in 1939. As I wrote a while back, even if you’re Read more >
I have a terrible habit of going on the internet and looking at properties I can’t afford. (A hobby many of my fellow millennials share, I’m sure.) From my cramped Brooklyn apartment with pots of spaghetti piled haphazardly in the Read more >
Perhaps the most successful literary adaptation of last year was Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s “Drive My Car”—critically lauded, Best Screenplay at Cannes, one of only six films to win Best Picture from all three major U.S. critics Read more >
A new, highly concerning entry in the wave of classroom book bans sweeping the nation: Gene McGee, mayor of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System—funding already approved by the board of aldermen—until librarians Read more >
Jake Paul, an asshole, should not have made fun of Floyd Mayweather’s reading ability. (For background, Mayweather fought to an eight-round draw with Paul’s brother Logan, and Jake—also a boxer—might want some of that action for himself.) Look, I hate Read more >
Remember the tote bags? The bucket hats? The coffee carts? The pop-up shop? The mural? The Publisher’s Publicity Circle Awards, which celebrate the best campaigns carried out by publicists, remember—and as The Bookseller reports, they’ve shortlisted the Beautiful World, Where Read more >
I don’t need to tell you that the internet is usually a horrifying black hole of garbage and bad news and people screaming. But every so often, something comes across everyone’s screens and makes a little community out of us. Read more >
Today we’re celebrating the 190th birthday of Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland author, mathematician, and, as it turns out, posthumous suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. The unsolved murder and disembowelment of several sex workers Read more >
