Because capitalism is alive and well, ahead of Black Friday (which seems to be encroaching earlier and earlier), I’ve been thinking about a few fictional shopping sprees. While shopping can be gluttonous and indulgent, wasteful and vapid, in literature it also Read more >
The rape conviction at the center of The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold’s memoir, Lucky, has been overturned after an executive producer on its Netflix adaptation started asking questions about the guilt of Anthony Broadwater. Broadwater, now 61, served 16 Read more >
Something actually, genuinely fun to send you off on your holiday weekend: Tracen Wassily, a junior at Dillingham High School in Alaska, has turned the Epic of Gilgamesh into a rap. According to KDLG, Public Radio for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Read more >
When Thanksgiving is represented in literature, it’s almost always as a showcase for extreme family dysfunction. And don’t get me wrong, I love a catastrophic dinner scene—but I also love Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday that unites so many of my Read more >
In April, back when a few Cuomosexuals still roamed New York, the Times Union published interviews with anonymous current and former Cuomo staffers claiming they were given tasks related to Cuomo’s memoir about the COVID-19 pandemic, American Crisis, for which Read more >
Using energy with abandon, stealing ape art NFTs: cryptocurrency seems pretty lawless, except, it turns out, if you infringe on trademark rights. The Guardian has reported that the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has taken legal action to block a Lord Read more >
Today brings us new titles from A.S. Byatt, Ann Patchett, Mario Vargas Llosa, Haruki Murakami, and more! What a line-up! We’re grateful for new books and the people who had a hand in crafting them, this week and all weeks. Read more >
On this day in 1819, novelist, poet, and translator George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in Warwickshire, England. Eliot’s mother died when she was 17 and in 1841, Eliot and her father moved to Coventry, which later provided inspiration Read more >
In October, Sally Rooney chose not to sign a translation deal for Beautiful World, Where Are You with her previous Hebrew publisher, the Israel-based Modan Publishing House, in compliance with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, which works to end international Read more >
We remain moderately to very upset about the shuttering of The Believer, but are pleased to remind you that there are two more issues coming out! The first of which drops this December and—per the stylishly charming video below—is the Read more >
Bill Gates—he’s just like us. At least in the sense that he loves to read, and he periodically recommends books on his blog, GatesNotes. Today, he’s got a new list of holiday favorites for you, both fiction and non-. “When Read more >
Six months after the publication of Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show, a history of ACT UP New York’s combat of the AIDS crisis, you can browse video interviews with members of ACT UP New York online. Thanks to Schulman Read more >
One of the privileges—and burdens—of working for Big Book is that everyone assumes you have the power to recommend them the perfect book, one tailored exactly to their bad tastes and weird desires. Of course, if you can actually pull Read more >
Today, Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon is a bona fide classic; the bowl of mush and old woman whispering “Hush” have struck a chord with children, parents, and grown-up children who make memes of the book’s soothing artwork. But, surprisingly, Read more >
On Sunday night, both the 2020 and 2021 winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize accepted their awards in an in-person ceremony—including Chanel Miller, who won the 2020 Prize for nonfiction for her memoir Know My Name. Dayton, Ohio is Read more >
Overnight, Kevin McCarthy (pointlessly) delayed the House vote on Biden’s social spending bill for eight interminable hours, engaging in an antiquated American tradition on par with the Electoral College and making kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. We Read more >
Sharon Olds, whom Billy Collins called the “poet of sex and the psyche,” turns 79 today. I first came across Olds’ work in a poetry workshop during my final year in university. It was a cold, wintry day, and we Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, her first major novel since 2017’s The Book of Joan, which will be published by Riverhead in June 2022. Here’s how the publisher describes the book: As rising Read more >
This December, Gagosian is launching Picture Books, a new imprint imagined by Emma Cline. In this series, artists will be “given carte blanche” to respond visually to an author’s work, and both final pieces will be published together (with the Read more >
On this day in 1953, comic book legend Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Batman: The Killing Joke) was born in was Northampton, England. In addition to his mastery of signature storytelling, Moore is known for his forthright, Read more >
