I know what you’re thinking: “In this economy/pandemic/apocalypse?” The answer, of course, being “When else?” Today I learned that, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn will be hosting a Gone Girl-themed cruise, along the Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Szilvia Molnar’s debut novel, The Nursery, forthcoming from Pantheon in March 2023. The novel, a “visceral and revelatory portrait of a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness,” follows Read more >
While we do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Skyhorse, publisher of Sandy Hook deniers, anti-vaxxers, January 6th conspiracy theorists, and Woody Allen—their brand is extremely consistent. To wit: they will be publishing another book by disgraced biographer Blake Read more >
A star-studded 1972 table plan for a New School dinner honoring Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko was recently unearthed by Dr. Samantha Rose Hill (Hill is a scholar of Hannah Arendt, and knows a thing or two about archives; you should Read more >
A good movie tagline can be a work of art—and a bad one can be very funny. Hollywood has given us plenty of both over the years. But can you match the classic literary adaptation to its tagline? (Some of Read more >
The Booker Prize longlist is here—and it shows more of a range than ever, featuring its youngest and oldest-ever authors along with debut novels and the shortest book to be nominated for the prize. Five judges read 169 books to Read more >
President Obama has released his annual summer reading list, and as ever, he’s picked some winners. (I’m particularly delighted so see Jessamine Chan’s excellent and harrowing The School for Good Mothers on there. Given that he’s the former President of Read more >
Coming to an indie bookstore/library near you today! * Dwyer Murphy, An Honest Living (Viking) “Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fallen dreams and doom-bitten characters.” –The New York Times Read more >
Literary Twitter was not thrilled with Pamela Paul’s most recent New York Times op-ed, which was just another iteration of her usual formula, i.e. “the inchoate woke mob of my fever-dreams is just as bad for the world as the Read more >
Sorry to Kindle loyalists: people who read paper books tend to be more advanced readers, according to a recent study of the reading habits of thousands of teens around the world. The study, conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation Read more >
I am very pleased to report that one of the many ways in which the Internet is mocking now-disgraced Senator Josh Hawley—for fleeing the very mob he incited himself—is through verse. Here is what @limericking on Twitter posted last night: Read more >
This week, composer, violinist, and vocalist Caroline Shaw—who in 2013 became the youngest ever recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music—announced her second album with Attacca Quartet: Evergreen will be out from Nonesuch on September 23. Shaw and Attacca Quartet Read more >
There’s a new book coming from Michelle Obama next season: titled The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, it will offer her thoughts on handling difficult periods of change. “I’ve learned it’s okay to recognize that self-worth comes wrapped Read more >
The federal government’s civil suit to block the acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Penguin Random House is chugging along, with the trial set to begin on August 1. Exhibits to the joint pretrial motion, filed July 15, included lists Read more >
Today in extremely niche literary world factoids: in case you didn’t know (I did not) Zadie Smith has a younger brother named Ben Bailey Smith, an actor and standup who goes by Doc Brown, admires Taylor Swift’s writing ability, and Read more >
More than 200 unionized HarperCollins employees are on strike today following months of contract negotiations, which began in December 2021 and which, they say, have not yielded a fair agreement for workers. HarperCollins, based in New York City—where the median Read more >
