Anne Rice, the prolific and beloved author of gothic novels, most famous for her 1976 debut Interview with the Vampire and its sequels, died on Sunday in Rancho Mirage, California, from complications from a stroke. She was 80. Rice’s son, the Read more >
Oh, the weather outside is frightful! But the reading is so delightful… Weather (sorry) or not you love the snow—blanketing your driveway, stalling your subway lines—it’s hard to deny that there have been some pretty darn good descriptions of it Read more >
Here’s something sick, deviant, and against nature: Dr. Seuss Enterprises has partnered with vacation rental management company Vacasa to create a real-life version of the Grinch’s cave—home of the Grinch, the titular role in the book about the Grinch. I’m Read more >
Today is Clarice Lispector’s birthday—an international celebration recognized as Hora de Clarice—and in celebration, we’re looking back on her body of work. Today, New Directions, Lispector’s longtime English-language publisher, revealed the cover for July 2022’s The Woman Who Killed The Read more >
In addition to being a prolific novelist, Toni Morrison was a prolific editor. She was committed to championing Black writers, both through her role as senior editor at Random House and her work with writing collectives like The Sisterhood (which Read more >
Apparently, J.K. Rowling’s bruised reputation has not lowered the value of her books. Yesterday, a rare first edition of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone sold at auction for $471,000, which Heritage Auctions says is “the highest price ever paid Read more >
Today is Emily Dickinson’s birthday (her 191st, if anyone’s counting), which is as good a day as any to revisit her poetry. If you’ve got your hands full, you can even have it read to you—via this all-day marathon reading Read more >
Today, December 10th, is Hora de Clarice; an international celebration of the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, Claire Lispector. In July 2022, New Directions will publish a new collection, The Woman Who Killed the Fish, four “beguiling tales Read more >
As of yesterday, FSG has acquired Judith Butler’s new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? This book will be Butler’s first non-academic press book, meaning they will be writing accessibly for a wider audience. According to the deal report, Who’s Afraid Read more >
Possibly the last Cuomo book update Lit Hub will ever blog: on Tuesday, HarperCollins announced that they are pulling Chris Cuomo’s book from publication following his termination from his position as an anchor at CNN. Cuomo was previously suspended for Read more >
Where do you turn when you’ve run out of ways to make money from the planet you live on? Ad astra you dipshit! C’mon, bro. So it’s no surprise that Andy Weir and his user manuals for space colonialism come Read more >
Today in 1982, Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for “his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflicts.” Twenty-eight years Read more >
A great novel doesn’t have to follow conventional form. In the hands of a skilled writer, a story that departs from the traditional narrative structure can be compelling, engaging, and insightful. Today is National Letter Writing Day, which got me Read more >
Science fiction thriller writer John C. Boland is suing Amazon for letting copies of over eight of his books be sold on their website for exorbitant prices—and with false publication dates attached. As the New York Times reported in a Read more >
Good news for parents desperate for someone, anyone, to give them some tiny sliver of help raising their children! No, no one has announced plans to address the nationwide shortage of daycare workers, but at least Reading Rainbow is coming back! The original Read more >
As The Guardian reported this morning, George Orwell’s estate has approved Sandra Newman’s Julia, a retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four from the perspective of Julia, the woman with whom Winston Smith has an illicit affair before they are captured and re-educated Read more >
Consider this your weekly reminder to drop in at your local indie. Maybe think of this list as your scavenger hunt. How many can you find? How many will you get?! * Tabitha Lasley, Sea State (Ecco) “What sets Lasley Read more >
Five Game of Thrones prequel shows are currently in development at HBO: House of the Dragon, the story of a Targaryen civil war; Dunk and Egg, an adaptation of the novella series; and at least three animated series set in Read more >
Here’s an example of someone actually living their principles! Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, a book exposing the Sackler family’s role in creating the opioid crisis, has chosen to donate Read more >
Sometimes, the darkest places can make way for transformative light. Poet, author, and Yale doctorate student Reginald Dwayne Betts is planning to transform the former prison cell of Malcolm X into a library for incarcerated people. Betts, a 2018 Guggenheim Read more >
