Two books about the legacy of slavery in the US have won the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize. NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Song of W.E.B. Du Bois, a multi-generational epic that chronicles the journey of one Read more >
TIME published its list of the 100 most influential people of 2022 today, and it includes eight writers from across the worlds of poetry, literary fiction, playwriting, journalism, and academia. Here’s what their peers had to say about them, and Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself, forthcoming from Pantheon in March 2023. In the book, Martin “chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone Read more >
Tom Hanks—who previously spent time crushing a beloved indie bookstore with his discount big box chain (which was then probably crushed by Amazon and yes I am talking about his role in You’ve Got Mail and not his real life)—will publish a Read more >
Pull on your cozy reading sweats already! This week, we’re getting new books by Namwali Serpell, Kate Atkinson, Annie Proulx, Hua Hsu, and more. * Namwali Serpell, The Furrows (Hogarth Press) “Its ambiguities and enigmas add up to not more Read more >
Do you enjoy gambling—but, you know, in a cultured way? None of that racetrack nonsense or three card monte for you? Well you’re in luck: the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next Thursday, October 6, and the Read more >
Why the hell has Pennsylvania’s Central York School District banned four books in the Girls Who Code series, which provides models to young women and girls who might not otherwise see themselves as computer programmers? Yes, the nationwide Republican movement Read more >
By the time I read Hilary Mantel’s 1996 review of Kate Atkinson’s debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum in the London Review of Books, the novel had been a favorite of mine for over a decade. My mother Read more >
Celebrated British writer Hilary Mantel, best known for her Thomas Cromwell trilogy—Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light—for which she won not one but two Booker Prizes, died from a stroke on Thursday at the age Read more >
Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. * Hello Dorothea, I am avid reader of Lit Read more >
In a surprising turn of events, Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing a loophole revealed by a TikTok about “reading hacks.” The hack: reading an entire ebook and then returning Read more >
Today, the jurors for the 2022 Cundill History Prize announced their eight-book shortlist, a collection of books that “shows the range and insight of current history writing.” The winner will be awarded $75,000, and two runners up will receive $10,000 Read more >
POLITICO reports today that it has obtained a draft copy of new resolutions, authored by congressional Democrats, that would address book bans and aims to “protect the rights of students to learn.” Juan Perez Jr. writes: The draft House measure Read more >
The Poetry Foundation today announced its Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, recognizing “outstanding young poets” who will each receive $25,800. The fellows are: Tarik Dobbs, author of the chapbook Dancing on the Tarmac and the forthcoming NAZAR Read more >
Today, the judges for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction announced their 2022 longlist: 12 books that represent the best in nonfiction writing published in the UK in the last year. “It was a fiendishly difficult, but also highly enjoyable Read more >
How far have you gone to roast a friend? How about writing a passive-aggressive story that portrays them as a scrappy boxer who thinks they’re stronger than they are and gets beaten up for it? Welcome to literary payback, Hemingway-style: Read more >
