Some good news to ring in the weekend: fans of George Orwell (and fans in the making) will soon be able to enjoy a serialization of his works, courtesy of Orwell Daily, a project to bring his writing to new Read more >
In 1789 Paris, a certain M. Etteilla (a pseudonym of the French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette) applied for a patent to print Livre de Thot. Not that kind of thot, mind you—it refers to the Egyptian god Thoth, though I also Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene, the latest novel from the bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize and NBCC finalist, which will be published by Little, Brown, this spring. Here’s how the Read more >
As someone who has more than once lost significant chunks of writing projects because of my long-standing allergy to backing up my work, I have great empathy for Lana Del Rey, who announced on her Instagram Stories that someone had Read more >
Liz Truss has resigned as Prime Minister of the UK, making her 44-day tenure the shortest in the country’s history. This non-shocking announcement comes on the same day the co-author of a forthcoming biography of Truss tweeted about his book’s Read more >
Nora Roberts is at it again. Just over a month after donating $50,000 to the Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan—which was defunded by voters after librarians refused to remove LGBTQ books—she has given $25,000 to a library in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Read more >
Rick Riordan will be publishing a new Percy Jackson book—the first in 14 years—next September. I only hope that my now-11-year-old won’t be too cool by then for Riordan’s entertainingly contemporary take on Greek mythology (he currently loves everything Riordan’s Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Stephen Buoro’s debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, which will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2023. Here’s how the publisher describes the novel: Andrew Aziza is a Read more >
I can’t recall a wartime leader ever addressing an international book fair while his country is under attack but, hey, it’s already been a hell of a decade, so why not? This coming Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I’m hanging by a thin thread this week, and that thread is the promise of new books by George Saunders, Samanta Schweblin, Fatimah Asghar, and more. * George Saunders, Liberation Day (Random House) “Let’s Read more >
The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize is Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books). (The bookies almost had it.) The announcement was made by Neil MacGregor, Chair of Read more >
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning satirical novel, is coming to TV. Late last week Variety reported that streaming behemoth Hulu has placed a 10-episode order for the miniseries adaptation, which will star Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley, Crazy Rich Asians) Read more >
Despite the fact that Jared Kushner’s recent memoir Breaking History “reminded [Dwight Garner] of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo,” and the fact that it’s, you know, a book ostensibly written by Jared Kushner, we were not surprised to see Read more >
Tonight, the 2022 winner of the Booker Prize, the biggest literary prize in the UK, will be announced in a ceremony hosted by comedian Sophie Duker and featuring a keynote speech by Dua Lipa. So who will win the £50,000, Read more >
Russian publishers—specifically, an organization called the Russian Book Union (RKC)—are concerned that a new “LGBQT Propaganda” bill could lead to the banning of Russian classics by the likes of Dostoevsky and Bulgakov. According to independent Russian news organization Meduza: …the Read more >
Craig Finn is the lead singer of a band called The Hold Steady and I have always loved his songwriting. Finn is something like a poet laureate of Midwestern malaise, extracting tragicomic pathos from a particular kind of exurban fuckery Read more >
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