I am, indeed, biased, but more book coverage by a prominent national magazine is a good thing for America. Sure, there are plenty of bad books (evil ones, even!), but as a medium, books continue to be the best way Read more >
Biographers International Organization (BIO)—an international non-profit founded to promote the art and craft of biography—today announced Burning Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Frances Wilson’s magnificently-titled biography of D. H. Lawrence, as the winner of its 2022 Plutarch Award. Now in its tenth Read more >
You’ve Got Mail is a many splendored thing: a fascinating, variegated film that braids together themes of hope and despair, friendship and heartbreak, love and hatred, preservation and destruction, resistance and surrender, technology and analogs. It is a depressed capitalist Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Erika T. Wurth’s literary horror novel White Horse, which will be published by Flatiron Books on November 1. In her big-publishing debut, Wurth, an urban Native writer of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent, offers Read more >
Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded every year to a writer aged 39 or younger, is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers. This year, the honor (and £20,000 purse) goes to Patricia Lockwood for her debut novel, Read more >
Conjunctions editor Bradford Morrow announced today that the magazine would continue publishing at Bard College, which has reversed its previous decision to withdraw funding. Morrow shared a statement from Bard on Thursday: Bard College is pleased to announce that, following Read more >
Starting a classic novel like Dracula can be a little intimidating. Going it alone can also… suck. Lucky for us, the folks behind Dracula Daily have come up with something delightful: you can get Bram Stoker’s classic emailed to you in bite-size Read more >
In a move that seems pretty damn Handmaid’s Tale-y, the Nampa School District in Nampa, ID has voted to ban 24 titles from the district’s libraries, “forever.” In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale (which is purportedly on the list because of Read more >
Look, The Joshua Tree was the first album I ever bought with my own money. I have a soft spot for U2, up to and including Achtung Baby (I guess). And I suppose a memoir by one of the biggest Read more >
The winners and nominated finalists of the 106th Pulitzer Prizes were announced today via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention an instant ticket into a very illustrious club. The Read more >
Earlier this morning Lit Hub published a very personal essay by Jumi Bello about her experience writing a debut novel, her struggles with severe mental illness, the self-imposed pressures a young writer can feel to publish, and her own acts Read more >
It’s been nine months since the Taliban reclaimed power in Afghanistan, filling a vacuum left by the hastily departing American occupying forces—things have not gone well. Among other draconian measures, the Taliban government has moved aggressively to limit educational opportunities Read more >
Once in a while, you come across a short story that just puts a spell on you. You reach the end of it, and you find yourself a little changed, and you want to turn back to the beginning and Read more >
A worthy cause for you this Thursday: a bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a federal holiday (and the first federal holiday named for an American woman) is at nearly 8,000 signatures, and you can add your name Read more >
Polity Books has announced that it will publish Serhii Rudenko’s biography of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the first major biography of the leader to appear in English, this summer. Zelensky: A Biography will be published in the UK on July 1 Read more >
At the end of 2020, we received a snippet of good news: A24 was planning an adaption of Ocean Vuong’s critically acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. We’ve gone several months without any update (which makes sense; I assume Read more >
