Perhaps in a move to render all other uses of the word Orwellian laughable by comparison, Amazon is planning to ban a list of words including “union,” “ethics,” “plantation,” “harassment,” “concerned,” “pay raise,” and “restrooms” from an internal chat app Read more >
It’s a BIG WEEK, folks! New titles from Emily St. John Mandel, Douglas Stuart, Jennifer Egan, Ocean Vuong, Samantha Hunt, and more are hitting shelves today. Prepare your minds, hearts, and wallets. * Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility Read more >
I am not generally a fan of awards shows (I don’t want to go to someone else’s work banquet, sorry!), so I didn’t tune in for last night’s Grammys. This morning, though, I was delighted to see that Ukrainian poet Read more >
According to this breathlessly unhinged story in Woman & Home, Adele bought some books in February. STOP THE PRESSES. But ok, yes, we here at Lit Hub are sadly prone to unseemly excitement when any non-literary celebrity shows the slightest Read more >
Huge news from Staten Island today: employees who work at the Amazon facility located there just voted in favor of unionizing, the first in the company to do so, in a huge win for labor organizers in the US. Employees Read more >
Yesterday, on late poet and memoirist Molly Brodak’s 42nd birthday, a new nonprofit formed in her memory launched. Glass Orchid is an organization committed to supporting independent artists, writers, publishers, and alternative spaces; they provide grant opportunities, financial support and Read more >
Swansea University has announced its shortlist for the 2022 Dylan Thomas Prize. The £20,000 prize celebrates work written in the English language across the world by authors aged 39 or under, and this year, the shortlist includes three debuts. The Read more >
Old Lion Publishing, a book publisher based in Lviv, Ukraine, has created a campaign to collect funds for books that they will distribute among Ukrainian children who are living as refugees. More than four million Ukrainians have fled the country Read more >
Putting all overachieving kids to shame forever, Charlotte Brontë and her siblings created a series of tiny books when they were children that have since become highly coveted—and very expensive—objects in the world of antiquarian book collection. Though many of Read more >
New hero alert: Wong May, the winner of this year’s $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in poetry, who expressed surprise at the award given than she has consciously eschewed the literary world in favor of the work itself. On the Windham-Campbell website, Read more >
A small mystery: last week, writers on Twitter discovered that many LGBTQ+ books were been missing from Target’s website after previously being listed on the site for pre-order. In his Twitter thread, debut author Brian D. Kennedy (author of A Read more >
You, avid reader of this site, obviously know how obsessed we are with Taylor Swift. We have dedicated a fair amount of time to recommending books and writers based off your favorite album by her. After all, she’s the perfect Read more >
Are you exhausted? Do you want to cancel all your plans and just curl up and read? Well, the good news is, friends: you probably can! These 15 new titles are sure to provide excellent company as you recharge this Read more >
Eight months after the launch of Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic seeking to publish “beautifully written, provocative, intelligent, [risky]” writing, Roxane Gay Books has announced its first list: it will publish three novels in 2023, from Ani Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut story collection What We Fed to the Manticore, which will be published by Tin House this September. Tin House describes What We Fed to the Manticore as a collection Read more >
On the topic of banned books (ha ha): as the Standard reported, the Charles Dickens Museum’s account is now visible on TikTok after a censorship mix-up, shadowban, and subsequent Twitter campaign to #FreeDickens. Anybody who has any experience with social Read more >
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