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 >
Roy Schwartz’s Is Superman Circumcised?, a look at Superman’s Jewish influences, has won U.K.-based Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, beating out The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé for the honor. Is Superman Read more >
Yesterday, a footnote to an op-ed in the LA Times revealed that Red Badge Films is now producing a documentary about Anthony Broadwater’s conviction and then exoneration of Alice Sebold’s rape, called Unlucky. Red Badge Films is helmed by Tim Read more >
This year, writers and publishers learned about the power of #BookTok—a literature-loving corner of TikTok where readers post videos inspired by the books they love. Viral trends involving certain books launched backlist titles to the top of the fiction charts; Read more >
Serena Williams—the 23-time Grand Slam champion, 4-time Olympic medalist, fashion designer, philanthropist, movie producer, activist, and Simpsons guest star—will soon be adding “children’s author” to her list of professional titles. Williams announced on Instagram yesterday that her first children’s book, The Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel All This Could Be Different, which will be published by Viking—who acquired it in an 8-way auction—in summer 2022. The publisher describes the book as “an Read more >
HBO’s Love Life returned for a second season in October, with the beloved William Jackson Harper taking center stage as Marcus Watkins—a book editor! This was thrilling to me because 1) I run the Book Marks Instagram, for which I spend Read more >
In January, George Saunders’s craft book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, translated a class Saunders teaches in Syracuse University’s Creative Writing MFA program to the page; it aimed to demystify the mechanics of great writings to a Read more >
News for Frankenstein fans, or just fans of the monster: according to Mansion Global, a two-bedroom Bloomsbury apartment at the address of Mary Shelley’s former home is on the market for $1.36 million. If you saved $1.17 million from not Read more >
Bernardine Evaristo, Booker-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, has been named the next president of the Royal Society of Literature. Evaristo will take over from Marina Warner at the end of this year, becoming the second female president—and the first Read more >
Alice Sebold has released an apology to Anthony Broadwater, who served 16 years in prison and spent 24 more years on the sex offender registry after being convicted of her rape in 1981. The conviction was based on Sebold identifying Read more >
It’s that time of year again! No, not Christmas time, but Hallmark Christmas movie time. There’s nothing like two hours of G-rated, ambiguously Christian entertainment to get you into the holiday spirit. Of course, if you prefer classic literature to Read more >
Following the overturning of the rape conviction at the center of The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold’s memoir, Lucky, Variety reports that the adaptation of the memoir has been abandoned. According to a source close to the production, the movie Read more >
Here’s something pleasant for a cold autumn Tuesday: Maisie Matilda, a UK-based painter, has amassed a following for her fore-edge paintings, scenes painted on the side of hardcover books’ pages. Focusing mainly on Dune, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Read more >
Librarians! Where would we be without them? They’re so well-Red! They take care of the books; they protect what is essentially Holy Ground. And they know All Too Well that, sometimes, to get readers to Stay Stay Stay, they need Read more >
Here’s a story out of Fulton County, Pennsylvania; I’d call it “feel-good”, but really, it’s about the public picking up governmental officials’ slack. Two of three Fulton County commissioners refused to approve an additional $3,000 in funding for their public Read more >
