A recent survey conducted by OnePoll for ThriftBooks, which polled 2,000 Americans about their novel-writing and novel-reading habits, found that 55% of respondents think their life stories are interesting enough to be immortalized in fiction. That seems like a lot, Read more >
The holiday season is quickly approaching (!), and I’m sure you’ve been thinking about what to buy your friends and loved ones. Well, how about a personalized postcard from a favorite author? The Common just kicked off its eighth annual Read more >
Some alarming news, though it’s not surprising if you’ve been paying attention to local education news and the critical race theory debate: a new report from PEN America catalogues a concerning wave of legislative efforts to limit teaching and learning Read more >
On this glorious day, 15 years ago, Stranger Than Fiction came into the world. It is arguably the best movie about writer’s block, dramatic irony, fate, the unknowability of death, and the gray space between what is “real” and what is Read more >
Today in things that should definitely not be possible: Ocean Vuong received a torrent of real-time reviews from a horde of confused Australian teenagers on Instagram after they tried to interpret his writing for an exam. Students in Australia take Read more >
Now we have Villaneuve’s Dune, and we have Lynch’s Dune, but both are very different from the Dune we could have had if movie studios found some extra money to play with in the 1970s. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky began to Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Morgan Talty’s debut story collection, Night of the Living Rez, which will be published by Tin House Books in summer 2022. Talty noted that he “wanted to write a collection that Read more >
On this day in 1960, bookstores across England sold out of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The day after its publication—and one month after Penguin Books prevailed in an obscenity trial, winning the right to publish the book in full in the Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced this year’s recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which supports “original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard,” and which is intended to bolster writers who are already knee-deep in Read more >
As Seven Days reports, the writers of a COVID-skeptical book and their publisher, Vermont publisher Chelsea Green, are suing Senator Elizabeth Warren for stifling their free speech by asking Amazon to alter their algorithms to lower the impact of COVID-19 misinformation. Read more >
Last night, Omar El Akkad was announced as the winner of the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, for his novel What Strange Paradise. The prize, established in 1994, seeks to celebrate excellence in Canadian fiction, and offers C$100,000 to the winning author—the Read more >
Today is the birthday of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer, professor, and science writer Carl Sagan, otherwise known as Carl Sagan Day. Born in Brooklyn in 1934, Sagan was an avid fan of science fiction at an early age; he Read more >
On this day in 1953, at the still-young age of 39, the “roistering, drunken and doomed” Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, author of some of the most beloved verse of the 20th century, passed away. The story most often told about Read more >
If you peruse poetry Twitter on the 1st of June, you will undoubtedly come across a slew of poets quoting an infamous line from Anne Sexton’s “The Truth the Dead Know“: “It is June. I am tired of being brave.” Read more >
As the light leaves us earlier and earlier and the cold comes creeping in, this is a friendly reminder that you can always seek refuge in a bookstore. Here are a few new titles that you should keep an eye Read more >
The winners of this year’s World Fantasy Awards were announced this weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Montreal, Canada. Considered one of the most prestigious honors for fantasy and speculative fiction, the award celebrates writers and artists who published Read more >
Today in 1950, William Faulkner accepted his 1949 Nobel Prize for his “powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” In his acceptance speech, he discussed the perils of post-war writing and working through fear, and argued that Read more >
Today, Robert Frost is characterized by his economical lyric and his ability to write grace into everyday speech. Even his 1913 debut collection, A Boy’s Will, had this quality: as Ezra Pound put it, “The man has the good sense Read more >
Today, the American Library Association announced the 2022 shortlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The awards, established in 2012, celebrate the best books in fiction and nonfiction for adult readers, and will honor each Read more >
This cold Monday morning brings glad tidings for all you DeWittians out there: in just over seven short months you’ll be able to read a brand new novella by Helen DeWitt, her first book-length work of fiction in more than Read more >
