30 years ago tonight, in one of the most infamous acts of cultural genocide in living memory, the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was razed to the ground. In the night between Aug 25 and Read more >
Two Virginia lawsuits that are seeking to restrict young people’s access to books with sexual content will move forward with a hearing this Tuesday, August 30, raising the possibility that Barnes and Noble could require parental consent to sell such Read more >
When the Lit Hub staff worked out of an office, some among us were very fond of harmless workplace pranks. (Some day we’ll publish the oral history of the time we replaced the first page of Fleur Jaeggy’s Sweet Days Read more >
Jesus. A Texas woman actually went into her local police station—in a town called Katy, just west of Houston—to file a complaint about a book in the Jordan High School library. According to the Houston Chronicle: A Katy ISD police Read more >
As mass hysteria continues to target American students’ access to information in books, there’s some particularly disheartening news coming out of Oklahoma this week. Wendy Suares, an anchor at KOKH FOX 25, reported on Twitter that a teacher at Norman Read more >
For the second year, the nation (of TikTok users and the middle-aged journalists who write about them) has been gripped by the phenomenon that is sorority rush week at the University of Alabama. As a middle-aged person who is not Read more >
Jack Kerouac’s time working as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service on Desolation Peak—a two-month period in 1956—has been much-mythologized at this point, especially by Kerouac himself, as a focus of his book The Dharma Bums along with Read more >
Before there was Twitter, there was the slow burn of print-based literary fighting. Let’s take a moment now to commend a subtle master of the form, writer Kate Chopin, who died this week in 1904. Upon its publication in 1899, Read more >
Australian artist Stéphanie Kilgast is trying to make a point about the millions upon millions of books that end up in landfills each year. A sculptor who works primarily in discarded materials, Kilgast’s latest series focuses on old books, reimagining Read more >
New books! The financial bane and emotional buoy of our existence! * Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives (Riverhead) “Riveting and heartbreaking … A compelling novel, one that gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure.” –The Read more >
What could one say about Dorothy Parker that hasn’t already been said, especially here at Literary Hub dot com? She was a revered critic and essayist, known for her witty one-liners. She inspired Nora Ephron. She worked on the script Read more >
Chew on this, Armie Hammer. After the success of 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet have reunited for a new literary adaptation—this time without Hammer, despite the fact that the project is a coming-of-age story Read more >
Former Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs’s trial for alleged domestic abuse has revealed many things—mainly that he was an awful, abusive, and toxic boyfriend to Kate Greville. But he may* also be responsible for the worst love poem ever Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Joy Castro’s new novel One Brilliant Flame, which will be published by Lake Union in January. Here’s how the publisher describes the book: Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes Read more >
If you’re unfamiliar with the style of Daily Mail headlines, you’re living a more honorable life than I, and I applaud you. For those who recognize the truly bananas way that the paper of ill-record titles its celebrity stories, I Read more >
TEGAN AND SARA TRAILER DROP, TEGAN AND SARA TRAILER DROP—this is not a drill! If you clicked on this, you’re probably well aware that the beloved sister indie pop duo published a memoir in 2019 called High School. Amazon Freevee (boo) Read more >
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