Area woman reads over 150 books… a month!?
It is a painful thing to do the math on how many books you’ll be able to read before you die (no matter how old you are). I’m sorry, it’s just not as many as you think, and you’re never Read more >
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Take this soothing room-by-room virtual tour of Jane Austen's house.
Always wanted to explore Jane Austen’s house but can’t get to England? This video, made by MemorySeekers, is almost as good and definitely more cost-effective, presenting a guided room-by-room tour of Austen’s last home in Chawton, Hampshire—now a museum, of Read more >
By Emily Temple
These are the books Barack Obama thinks you should read this summer.
As you likely already know, President Obama has pretty good taste in books. After all, he’s been a reader (and a writer) since long before he got into politics. “Whether you’re camped out on the beach or curled up on Read more >
By Emily Temple
Here are the best reviewed books of the week.
S. A. Cosby’s Razorblade Tears, Dana Spiotta’s Wayward, Helen Scales’ The Brilliant Abyss, and Michael Pollan’s This is Your Mind on Plants all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s Read more >
By Book Marks
Now you can buy the glorious mansion where Mark Twain died.
Good news for Twainiacs (?) with money to spend: now, for $4.2 million, you can purchase Mark Twain (aka Samuel Clemens)’s bright yellow Redding, Connecticut mansion where he lived until his death in 1910. Stormfield Mansion, named by Twain himself Read more >
By Walker Caplan
Javier Bardem is your new Lyle, Lyle Crocodile.
If you like your children’s cartoon characters vaguely sinister and uncomfortably sexualized (and I do, perverted Parisian Judge Claude Frollo and suave 1970s fox Robin Hood. God help me, I do), you’ll find this news very welcome indeed. Large, handsome, Read more >
By Dan Sheehan
13 books perfectly summed up with one-liners from Gilmore Girls.
If you watched Gilmore Girls for the first time when it was still on air and never stopped watching it, then this list is for you. Personally, I probably think about the Gilmore girls an unhealthy number of times per day, Read more >
By Katie Yee
Sleeping or Dead? and other hilarious "practical books for librarians" in pulp classic form.
This week, I stumbled across a hidden internet gem: a seemingly endless collection of fake pulp novel covers for, about, and presumably by, librarians. The series, “Professional Library Literature: Practical Books for Librarians” is a hilarious mix of helpful how-to Read more >
By Emily Temple
"She died sniffing life, and enjoying it." Read E.B. White's witty obituary for his dog Daisy.
This weekend will mark the birthday of celebrated author Elwyn Brooks White, otherwise known as E.B. White to the public and “Andy” to his close friends. White was born on July 11, 1899, in Mount Vernon, NY. In 1921, he Read more >
By Vanessa Willoughby
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist will finally be made into a movie, courtesy Will Smith.
At long last, Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist—international bestseller, Guinness World Record holder (for most translated work by a living author), inspirational parable, and um, favorite novel of everyone you know who doesn’t really read novels—is coming to the big screen. Read more >
By Emily Temple
A nun just unearthed a previously unknown Dante manuscript.
Serendipitously, just two months away from the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, Julia Bolton Holloway—a Florence-based researcher and nun—seems to have discovered a sheaf of handwritten Dante manuscripts. The manuscripts date back to Dante’s time spent as a student Read more >
By Walker Caplan
Read the story that just won the biggest short story prize in the world.
Today, the Sunday Times named Susan Choi the winner of the 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, which honors the best short story of the year. With a prize of £30,000, the award is the world’s richest prize for Read more >
By Walker Caplan
What parents and teachers are getting wrong about childhood reading preferences.
A new study reveals that boys (contrary to popular opinion) like fiction just about as much as girls. It turns out that long-held biases about reading tastes, that hold to negative stereotypes along both gender and class lines, don’t quite Read more >
By Jonny Diamond
Exclusive: NoViolet Bulawayo's next novel, Glory, is coming your way this spring.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that NoViolet Bulawayo’s second novel, Glory, will be published by Viking on March 8, 2022. Viking describes the new book from the author of We Need New Names (which was shortlisted for the Booker Read more >
By Emily Temple
We're getting a (deeply confusing) Pride & Prejudice dating show.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single streaming service in possession of a moderate budget, must be in want of a dating show. As you may be able to discern from my amazing opener, I have actually read Read more >
By Jessie Gaynor
Millicent Simmons will lead an adaptation of Sara Nović's novel about a Deaf teen coming of age.
Today in exciting literary adaptation news: Millicent Simmonds, the breakout star of John Krasinski’s 2018 horror movie A Quiet Place and its 2020 sequel, is leading a TV adaptation of novelist and Deaf rights activist Sara Nović’s upcoming book True Biz—”a coming-of-age Read more >
By Dan Sheehan
Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book featuring same-sex parents.
Some troubling news: Hungarian authorities have fined the distributor of a children’s book for its depiction of homosexuality. The book in question, a two-part Hungarian translation of Early One Morning and Bedtime, Not Playtime! by Lawrence Schimel, portrays the daily Read more >
By Walker Caplan
These are the world’s 5 best, most innovative new public libraries.
This week, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions announced the five finalists for the Public Library of the Year Award, presented every year to the world’s best public library—and this year, the finalists are spread across the globe. Read more >
By Walker Caplan
A new Marcel Proust manuscript has been discovered—and you can read part of it right now.
I didn’t eat a madeleine, but this is a throwback: finally the world is able to read Les Soixante-quinze Feuillets (The Seventy-Five Pages), seventy-five manuscript pages that make up the oldest draft of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Read more >
By Walker Caplan
Jason Mott wants you to reconsider the "beautiful time capsule" of film noir.
Looking for a bit of writing inspiration? Have you tried turning to film noir from Hollywood’s Golden Age? In an interview with BookPage, poet and New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott discussed his new novel, Hell of a Book, and Read more >
