This week, the United States Postal Service announced their 2023 slate of stamps, including new forever stamps honoring literary legends Toni Morrison and Ernest J. Gaines. (Morrison has been immortalized on stamps before, but it’s USPS policy that living people Read more >
Andrew Bird has recorded a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers billed as a “reimagination” of the Emily Dickinson poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain.” According to Bird (whose latest album, Inside Problems, was released this past summer): I came Read more >
Today I learned that not only is there a real Frankenstein Castle (in Mühltal, Germany), but that is was the birthplace of a 17th century alchemist named Johann Konrad Dipple, who was obsessed with finding the secret to immortality and Read more >
It’s rare in this day and age that you know exactly what everyone is doing at a given moment. In the olden days, before streaming services, you could pretty much guarantee that your colleagues and friends were all gathered around Read more >
As reported in the Japanese Times (with a headline worthy of Murakami), bookstores have been closing at an alarming rate in Japan over the last decade. According to an industry organization, there are currently 11,952 stores operating in Japan, compared Read more >
The Big Five publishers have a history of both publishing and distributing books by people who not only hold abhorrent beliefs, but who wield those beliefs to destroy the rights of people across the world—so it’s no surprise that Sentinel, Read more >
Nothing like new releases to see you through the work week. Maybe the cure for burnout isn’t buying more books—an act which inherently gives you more to do in the end. But here we find ourselves!! Ross Gay, Cormac McCarthy, Read more >
Khadija Abdalla Bajabar’s The House of Rust has won the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust and Graywolf Press announced on Friday. The prize comes with an award of $25,000 for the Read more >
Just over two months after he was brutally attacked onstage while speaking at the Chautauqua Institution, Salman Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, provided an update on the author’s condition. In an interview with El País, Wylie said, “[His wounds] were profound, Read more >
If the New York Times Best-Seller List were a Monopoly game, Colleen Hoover would have hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place and you’d definitely be paying her every time you hopped on a railroad. Please forgive the tortured metaphor, but there Read more >
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 >
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