Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon, which will be published by Graywolf in November. Graywolf executive editor Yuka Igarashi shared the table Read more >
Olivia Colman’s mother characters have often concealed a spike beneath their smiley, feminine exteriors. There was the stepmother from hell in Fleabag—the kind of monster who mounts a sexhibition with a wall of plaster penises showcasing those of both your Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover for K-Ming Chang’ new novel, Organ Meats, which will be published by One World in October. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Best friends Anita and Rainie have made Read more >
Fans of Ling Ma’s Severence, rejoice: Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage: Stories, her second book, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, last night won The Story Prize, which comes with a $20,000 purse. The judges praised Ma’s achievements in the short Read more >
At Point Break Live, they give the people sitting in the front few rows raincoats to wear. I mention it because reviews of the stage adaptation of Hanya Yanigahara’s bestseller A Little Life make it sound both emotionally wrenching and Read more >
Yep, that’s right—not NFTs! Shocking, I know. According to a Forbes Advisor analysis, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Google Trends, bookstores are projected to be the most recession-proof type of U.S. business in 2023, Read more >
In FBI documents recently acquired by Unicorn Riot, a left-leaning independent media outlet, Chicago’s worker-owned Pilsen Community Books was said to be a meeting place for “anarchist violent extremists, or ‘AVEs,’ environmental violent extremists, or ‘EVEs’ and pro-abortion extremists.” As Read more >
Must be nice! We are happy for her! So glad that publishing can support artists with a livable wage! This week, Publisher’s Lunch dropped the news of Leigh Bardugo’s 8-figure 12-book deal with Macmillan Publishers. Bardugo published YA fantasy Shadow Read more >
It has been a busy week for banning books about, well, seemingly anything—“adult romance that should not be on school shelves,” for example. Jodi Picoult wrote a piece in The Daily Beast following Florida’s removal from library shelves of several Read more >
A Florida school board (run!) has banned James Patterson’s YA fantasy series, Maximum Ride, from its school shelves—and the mega-bestselling author isn’t happy about it. In a sort-of open letter (a Tweet), Patterson writes If you find this kind of Read more >
Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Naomi Alderman’s new novel The Future, which will be published by Simon and Schuster this November. Here’s more about the book from the publisher: A compulsive technological thriller, The Future is Read more >
If you thought last month’s casting of Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith was a sexy choice, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Everyone’s favorite smoldering short king, Oscar Isaac (recently seen playing the Handsomest Divorced Professor in the World in the Ingmar Read more >
A man so upset by the Pride programming at his local libraries that he felt moved to graffiti “GROOMERS” onto the windows has been charged with possession of child pornography, the Washington Post reports. The man, Charles M. Sutherland, vandalized Read more >
Strange dreams, a glowing blue cat, a giant talking frog, a tsunami, a lost bank employee, a schizophrenic accountant, people who are there but not there—I’d say it’s a Haruki Murakami adaptation, all right. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on Read more >
Thirty-five thousand dollars is on offer for winners of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, which aims to support small-press works and is open to U.S. and Canadian works. The Prize notes that “most often it is the small publishers Read more >
Not surprisingly, people still prefer printed books to e-books. And by people I mean Generation Z, that unfortunate cohort coming of age in the midst of mass shootings, ascendant authoritarianism, and mass environmental calamity. Citing reasons like eye-strain, digital detoxification, Read more >
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