Good news for Janeites with disposable income and an interest in vacation: Henry’s Townhouse, former home of Jane Austen’s brother, is available to rent after a period of renovation. The London house—with seven suites, a drawing room, terrace and dining Read more >
After nearly twenty years without renovation, the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum will reopen—completely redesigned—to the public on July 2nd. The $29 million overhaul of the museum is notably modern, featuring videos, touchscreen displays, and interactive exhibits. The Read more >
This weekend Locus Magazine, which has published news about news about the science fiction, fantasy and horror publishing field since 1968, announced the recipients of their 2021 Locus Awards in a virtual ceremony. Without further ado, here is the list Read more >
Deadline has announced that AMC has greenlit an eight-part television series based on Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire. Even more notably, AMC Networks acquired the rights to eighteen of Anne Rice’s books last year—including her Vampire Chronicles and Read more >
It’s safe to say Gordon Lish is an editing legend. He’s known for his exacting work with authors like Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Garielle Lutz; for a certain kind of language-loving writer, notes from Lish’s writing lectures Read more >
Today is George Orwell’s birthday. To mark the occasion, I scoured the internet for rare photos or weird interviews or something fun. (Here’s his 1940 review of Mein Kampf, by the way.) Instead I found that there is only one paltry Read more >
The Man Who Lived Underground, the recently-rediscovered Richard Wright novel which the famed author was unable to publish in his lifetime, has just been optioned by Paramount Studios in a seven-figure deal. An incendiary tale of race and police violence Read more >
The Orwell Foundation, which uses the work of George Orwell to celebrate honest writing and reporting, has announced the winners of their 2021 Orwell Prizes. The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing; every year, the Read more >
Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals, Joshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus, Laura Lippman’s Dream Girl, and Emma Dabiri’s What White People Can Do Next all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Read more >
Winston Marshall (one of Mumford’s smaller adult sons, who could very well be the unshaven ghost of a Victorian street-child) has dramatically canceled himself, declaring in a long and winding Medium post that he is leaving the band. Why? Though Read more >
On Monday, after a horrible, miserable year off due to the pandemic, my favorite television show of all time returns to ITV. That’s right, I am talking about Love Island, the boringest, stupidest, most deeply relaxing show on television. It’s Read more >
The most famous “World’s Greatest Library” ever consumed by fire is that of Alexandria over 2,000 years ago (thanks, Caesar)—we don’t know exactly what was lost but we know that it was a lot. This, perhaps, is what makes such Read more >
Happy 179th birthday, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce—prolific short story writer, roving journalist, feared critic, biting satirist, Civil War veteran, sometime poet, “weird” fiction pioneer, and surely the most famous missing person in American literary history. Now (and with apologies to the Read more >
Here’s some Thursday joy—and inspiration for your vaccinated group hangs. Unlike many book clubs, which involve a lot of sitting and not much excitement, every month the Bushwick Book Club gathers to present original work—mostly songs, but sometimes poems, meals Read more >
Here’s a project to keep on your radar: five groups across the country—Cave Canem Foundation in Brooklyn, NY; Furious Flower Poetry Center in Harrisonburg, VA; The Hurston/Wright Foundation in DC; Obsidian Lit in Normal, IL; and The Watering Hole in Read more >
You know writers. They obsess over comma placement. They can re-write a sentence a thousand times without being satisfied. And they always have to have the final word. For people whose lives revolved so much around language, what did they Read more >
The only good thing about Jared Kushner’s book deal: it’s making Trump angry. A source told CNN that Trump is envious of Kushner’s deal with Harper Collins’s conservative imprint Broadside Books. According to a Kushner associate, the book deal is Read more >
ITV News has reported that Amazon is destroying millions of unsold items each year—books, TVs, laptops, drones, headphones, computers, thousands of packaged COVID face masks are all among the waste. Undercover footage of Amazon’s Dunfermline warehouse in the UK from Read more >
There’s not enough observational comedy based on the differences between poets and fiction writers, in my opinion. (True, the market for this kind of humor might be vanishingly small and generally obnoxious, but that’s never stopped us [poets] before!) Nowhere Read more >
The publishing giant HarperCollins has reached an agreement with the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to acquire world publishing rights to the late Civil Rights leader’s entire archives—a collection which contains some of the “most historically important and Read more >
