As Lit Hub’s resident Jonathan Franzen scholar (*fangirl to a slightly embarrassing degree), I’m always on the lookout for good timely content about The Corrections. Luckily, The Bear, a show that has inspired a frankly indecent number of think-pieces (this one, for Read more >
Working adjacent to the publishing industry—as we do here at Lit Hub dot com—can sometimes leave you feeling a bit cynical about the whole “transcendent power of literature” thing, so it’s nice to come across news items like the following. Read more >
This is not a drill! The glorious manor from BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is on the market! For the low, low price of £6 million, you can live in a place where Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle once Read more >
Last week, Bridge Michigan reported that the Patmos Library in Jamestown Township, Michigan, had been defunded after a small group of residents tried, and failed, to have several books with LGBTQ themes removed. Now, a fundraising effort to help the library Read more >
What is the absolute maximum number of books one can fit into a single Joan Didion tote? Asking for a friend! * Belinda Huijuan Tang, A Map for the Missing (Penguin Press) “…spectacular … A breathtaking portrait of the regret Read more >
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC)—which helps bookstore owners and employees with unforeseen emergency financial needs—is this week urging people to donate money to help a number of flood-ravaged bookstores in St. Louis and eastern Kentucky. Recent torrential rains in Read more >
A school district in Florida is trying a new, insidious way to limit students’ consumption of books that discuss queerness and race: adding a warning label. The label now appears on more than 100 books in Collier County Public Schools Read more >
We are officially living in the future. Our marker for this is the fact that George Jetson was apparently born in July of 2022, so I’d just like to know: where is my robot maid? I thought that by now, Read more >
Wow. According to this excerpt posted at The New Yorker this morning, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Donald Trump, was genuinely worried that the then-president was using Hitler as a role model for acquiring Read more >
It seems like we’re all in a bad mood these days. After all, the planet is burning, democracy is crumbling, everyone is pivoting to video (again). Can a book make you feel better? Maybe, maybe not—but it can at least Read more >
If you have unprocessed trauma, $50,000, and a sense of adventure when it comes to your mental health, a new “wellness recovery program” created by Augusten Burroughs—author of the best-selling memoir Running With Scissors—may be right up your alley. The Read more >
Rumors have been confirmed that the internet’s favorite celebrity, Keanu Reeves, will star in an 8-part adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 bestseller, The Devil in the White City, which tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary Read more >
If you’ve got a teen or preteen at home, you’re probably sick to death of hearing them talk about The Banshees of Inisherin, the long-awaited film version of the third installment in Martin McDonagh’s uncompleted 1990s “Aran Islands Trilogy” of plays. Read more >
Another day, another example of grown adults rallying to ban books that could be educational, affirming, and in some cases life-saving for their kids. This one is in west Michigan, where residents of Jamestown Township voted this week to defund their Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Erica Berry’s forthcoming debut Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and What We Tell Ourselves About Fear, which will be published by Flatiron Books on February 21, 2023. Wolfish is an original and probing Read more >
It’s a tale as old as time: a Brazilian writer sets her Kindle aside for a few weeks to work on her own novel, and when she goes back to get a little reading done, finds that the device has Read more >
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