The National Endowment for the Arts has made public their list of this year’s recipients of Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing, which provide $25,000 grants to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, Read more >
My father, upon being called into school because of a fairly serious act of public nudity committed by his 16-year-old son (me) accused the vice-principal of being a Jansenist (in reference to a fairly obscure Catholic movement of the 17th Read more >
On New Year’s Day, I found myself watching one of the most delightful rom-coms I have ever seen but had only heard about recently. All hail Crossing Delancey, a film that came out (coincidentally on New Year’s Day!) in 1988. Read more >
And just like that… a whole new bunch of books coming into the world this week! Throw on your favorite Manolos and strut on over to the local bookstore, where you’re sure to find these gems. * Hanya Yanagihara, To Read more >
Today, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn—the recently appointed editor-in-chief at The Rumpus—announced that as of January 1, Alyson Sinclair is the new owner and publisher of the online literary magazine, which was originally founded by Stephen Elliott in 2009. (Sinclair is Read more >
After having to settle for bronze in 2020 (Barack Obama and Stephanie Meyer pipping him to the #1 and #2 spots, respectively), children’s book dynamo Dav “The Dog Man” Pilkey has reclaimed his title as America’s Bestselling Author, continuing his Read more >
In September, Netflix announced that it had acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, and with it, the author’s entire body of work. Now, there’s a little more info on that deal: this past week, the Daily Mail announced that, according Read more >
For weeks, the adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s atmospheric first novel Eileen, about a young-ish woman who takes a job at a boys’ prison, has been quietly shooting in New Jersey. Though no cast has been formally announced, Metuchen, NJ mayor Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Christopher Soto’s debut poetry collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press this spring. Copper Canyon notes that the collection “demands the abolition of policing and Read more >
We are officially a week into 2022. How is that resolution going? Something helpful to keep in mind is that it is totally okay to put off accomplishing your goals if you replace it with a kind of productive procrastination. Read more >
More news from Netflix’s Roald Dahl Expanded Universe: Wes Anderson has signed on to write and direct an adaption of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a short story collection that’s aimed at a slightly older audience than most Read more >
Just dropping in to let you guys know that tonight at 5:30 pm EST the American Dialect Society will be holding a virtual voting session to select their Words of the Year. It’s free and livestreamed, and you can register Read more >
If you’ve been having a rough year so far (hi), have I got a 10,000-word gift for you! Menswear writer Derek Guy has gone deep on a style concept he has dubbed Bookcore, which is as elusive as it is Read more >
As Kaj Scheueler reported for Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, newly opened archives from the Swedish Academy have given the public a window into the Nobel Prize in Literature judging panel’s deliberations in 1971. That year, Pablo Neruda ultimately took the Read more >
This week saw the announcement of this year’s Costa Book Awards, a set of annual literary awards which recognize and honor British and Irish writers of the English language. Each award comes with £5,000; the author of the Costa Book Read more >
The jury (figuratively) remains out on how much empathy we garner from reading books, but a certain English judge is quite pleased with the progress of Ben John, the 21-year-old white supremacist who, after being charged with possessing a bomb-making Read more >
Today, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the winners of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes, recognizing outstanding achievement in criticism and journalism. Named for Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of the New York Review of Books, and his longtime partner, Read more >
This week marks the 130th birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings writer, academic, and pranking enthusiast—and today we’re revisiting a time Tolkien stood up for his beliefs against his best business interests. In 1938, Tolkien Read more >
Deadline has reported that Jessica Chastain, through her cutely named production company Freckle Films, has beaten out several others to the TV rights to Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers. The School for Good Mothers, published this week by Read more >
If you—still busy catching up after the holiday week, or perhaps newly sick with a certain rapidly spreading variant, or just exhausted from dealing with the realities of same—recently saw something about Norman Mailer being canceled by a mysterious “junior Read more >
