Every time a Democratic president is in office, conservative publishing houses rush to capitalize on the opportunity, publishing political screeds against the president in the hopes of a best-seller. It’s a rule of thumb at this point—at least, until this Read more >
Sinead O’Connor’s Rememberings, Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl, Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Read more >
Why, then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open. Dust off your Elizabethan collars and prepare for some midsummer madness, Bardolators (yes, that is the correct term), because beloved Big Apple institution Shakespeare in the Park Read more >
Rhythm was so critical to Allen Ginsberg’s work and delivery that it makes sense he was so often set to music, collaborating with The Clash, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Philip Glass. As part of Leita Luchelli’s Poetry Breaks project, Read more >
Despite the many scandals that have besieged him this year, or rather, the many impeachment-worthy things he did, Andrew Cuomo is staying strong. Sexual harassment, lying about COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, making medical professionals prioritize his friends for COVID Read more >
David Diop today became the first French writer, and the first writer of African heritage, to win the prestigious International Booker Prize for translated fiction for his harrowing novel about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in the first world Read more >
In her 1961 essay “Living With A Peacock,” Flannery O’Connor traces her adult proclivity for raising birds back to a childhood memory: “When I was five, I had an experience that marked me for life. Pathé News sent a photographer Read more >
As the public gets vaccinated, bookstores are beginning to reopen, and booksellers have been able to rekindle their relationships with their most devoted customers. For Brattle Book Shop owner Ken Gloss, the reopening process of his Boston-based used and rare Read more >
A lot of people on the internet claim to have forgotten how to dress in the past year, and while I think this is largely obnoxious late-pandemic performance (the Times Style section thanks you for your service), I still feel called Read more >
I was doing something perfectly domestic yesterday—possibly the dishes—when suddenly I heard Margaret Atwood’s voice on the radio reading a sexy poem about cicadas. Atwood is roughly of an age and class and place with my late mother and her Read more >
This month, New Directions is celebrating their 85th birthday; the festivities will kick off this week with “a night of poetry and remembrances” featuring Will Alexander, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, Sylvia Legris, Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Michael Palmer, Elliot Weinberger, Read more >
Literary Hub is excited to report that Graywolf’s new Executive Editor Yuka Igarashi has made her very first acquisition for the beloved independent press: a new novel by Lucy Ives called Life is Everywhere, which is currently scheduled to be Read more >
Dear reader, I hope this list finds you well-rested and ready to read. We’ve got an almost intimidating amount of exciting new titles coming our way today! * Kristen Arnett, With Teeth (Riverhead) “[A] hilarious and astute dive into the Read more >
Struggling with pandemic-induced writer’s block? You’re not alone—and better yet, you’re about to be cured! According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, mystery and historical author Ona Russell found an unconventional fix for her own writing woes: a tent. Placing a Read more >
Exciting news for fans of the Tony- and Emmy-winning actor: Canongate has just announced they are set to publish Alan Cumming’s “seriously entertaining” new memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, in October 2021. Where Cumming’s previous memoir, Not Read more >
Last week in a virtual ceremony at StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association announced the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Award, which is named after Dracula author Bram Stoker and honors “superior achievement” in horror and dark fiction published in Read more >
If there’s any industry that would voluntarily organize to give up a percentage of its profits to its “suppliers,” it’s booksellers. Starting in October, reports The Guardian, a collective of used bookstores in the UK will be paying royalties to Read more >
Here’s an incredible archival project you might not know about: Reveal Digital is partnering with academic and public libraries to fund an expanding, open access collection of American prison newspapers. “American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices From The Inside” is collecting Read more >
Another tally mark on the Something Nice Is Actually Fake cave wall of the Internet: the heartwarming quote from beloved children’s author and illustrator Eric Carle making the rounds online yesterday is actually a six-year-old April Fool’s joke. And yet Read more >
Rachel Cusk’s Second Place, Joan Silber’s Secrets of Happiness, Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Notes on Grief all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Read more >
