In response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new and ongoing sanctions against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has released a list of 100 Canadians citizens who are no longer allowed entry into Russia, including… Margaret Atwood. According to the Read more >
Another Tuesday, another round of new releases. This week sees the publication of new Patti Smith, an anthology edited by Eileen Myles, the five-year-anniversary edition of Hanif Abdurraqib, and more. * Patti Smith, A Book of Days (Random House) “A Read more >
The BBC and A24 are teaming up to adapt Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain as a TV series. Douglas himself will script the show, which will be produced by A24 for BBC One. Shuggie Bain, Douglas’ debut novel, Read more >
Last week’s dramatic crypto crash—which can be laid largely at the feet of former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX—is such an obviously archetypal tale of American hubris that it is a surprise to no one that Michael Read more >
Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about the relentless attacks on libraries by craven gangs of “concerned parents” mobilized by Republican rhetoric and Facebook, so today it’s my pleasure to shine the light on some more fun library news. For Read more >
I guess if you’re a publisher whose stated mission is to disrupt the publishing industry, you have to move fast and break things, no matter how ghoulish that makes you. Such is apparently the case for “hybrid publisher” Ballast Books Read more >
Oh yes. This week, Detroit’s Metro Times highlighted A Ain’t Always for Apple: An Erotic Adult Alphabet Book, which is . . . exactly what it sounds like. The book (which has become a multi-volume series) was written and self-published by Detroit Read more >
Look, it’s easy to dunk on nerd-bro crypto evangelists… So let’s! In a September profile of brand new poor person Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, he makes it pretty clear that books are for beta losers who Read more >
As you may have seen on Book Twitter today, the unionized workers of HarperCollins are striking to secure a fair contract, livable wages, and a more equitable publishing industry. Some 250 employees—across the editorial, publicity, sales, marketing, legal and design Read more >
The trailer for the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel The Lying Life of Adults has been released, and it looks appropriately gritty and gorgeous. The 2020 novel follows teenaged Giovanna as she travels the refined, middle-class, 1990s-era Naples Read more >
For as long as humans have been writing, we’ve been writing about the things that make us miserable. And there’s something almost heartening about the knowledge that there are some constants in the history of human misery: tiny, itch-provoking bugs, Read more >
Handsome blonde man Charlie Hunnam recently revealed that he wants to focus more on his writing (same, buddy, same). The star of Sons of Anarchy, King Arthur, The Lost City of Z, and The Gentlemen, and current star of the Read more >
Because I contribute heavily to the Lit Hub Instagram account, I spend an unconventional amount of my free time taking screenshots whenever there’s a writer in a movie or TV show. (To my friends and family who have had to Read more >
Daylight Savings Time has gifted us an extra hour… for reading. (That’s how that works, right?) This week brings new books by Haruki Murakami, Kevin Wilson, Lucy Ellmann, and more. * Haruki Murakami, tr. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Novelist Read more >
In honor of tomorrow’s US midterm elections (NB: please vote), I present: a little literary inspiration for the tireless Democratic party email scribes. Moby-Dick This is important, Ishmael. Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway said she would FUND the GOP HERSELF. David Read more >
Late Thursday night, North Hollywood’s Iliad Bookshop, one of the largest used bookstores in the Los Angeles area, was the target of an alleged arson attack. “Around 11:30 pm, someone piled the Iliad Bookshop’s free books up against the store’s Read more >
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