Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Jai Chakrabarti’s A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, forthcoming from Penguin Random House in February 2023. The book, comprised of 14 short stories, details what family means today across cultures, continents, Read more >
In Jordan Kisner’s recent, long profile of Cate Blanchett for The New York Times, there’s a fascinating detail that came and went so quickly that it was almost easy to miss: Blanchett is, apparently, working on a stage version of Lucy Read more >
The Paris Review has announced that Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and is given to “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Mona Read more >
Big news for the (in my experience, huge) Venn diagram center of book lovers and Top Chef fans: Padma Lakshmi will host this year’s National Book Awards. Lakshmi is the bestselling author of multiple cookbooks as well as a children’s book Read more >
A new trailer (below) for Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s Women Talking just dropped and it’s beautiful. Whereas the novel—which is brilliant—can have an almost claustrophobic feeling, Polley seems to be letting the light in a bit, evoking the Read more >
In case you didn’t notice all the costumes on the subway, New York Comic Con, the nerdiest event of the year, was held last weekend at New York City’s Javits Center. As always, the four day convention was full of Read more >
It is a very Monday-ish Tuesday, but at least that means there are only—count ’em—four days left in the work week and all these new books to fawn over. * Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs (W. W. Norton) “There is something new Read more >
Yes, there is a library in Ankara composed entirely of books thrown out (presumably) by people who hate reading (or who work in publishing). After Turkish garbage collectors began finding more and more trashed books, they decided to start organizing Read more >
If you tore through Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s 2019 novel Fleishman Is in Trouble with as much relish as I did (and based on critical and internet commenter response to the book, you did), chances are you’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of its Read more >
In what marks a glorious return to filmmaking after a nearly 20-year absence, John Waters (Baltimore’s favorite son and American cinema’s favorite degenerate) will write and direct an adaptation of his 2022 debut novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance. The adaptation, to Read more >
Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. * Dear Dorothea, I’m usually such a good reader—and I Read more >
More than 2 million children just became eligible for free books: California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Senate Bill 1183 to establish Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program in the state and specify how it will operate. The program will use Read more >
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott—the bulk of whose wealth comes from her ex-husband’s anti-union empire of digital retail nihilism—has given $20 million to the Fresno Unified School District. And while $20 million isn’t actually that much to someone worth $54 billion, it Read more >
This morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.” Annie Ernaux is the Read more >
The world’s most valuable novel—a first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, purchased in 2019 for £375,000, back when the pound had value—is going on display at the former house of Austen’s brother, Edward. The American owner has insisted the three-volume Read more >
As Tony Montana would probably say if he were a literary agent: In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get Read more >
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