Janeites rejoice: Vanity Fair has released snapshots from Searchlight Pictures’s Fire Island, the new, queer adaptation of Pride and Prejudice written by comedian Joel Kim Booster. Booster stars as Noah, a modern spin on Elizabeth Bennet; Margaret Cho and Bowen Read more >
Dolly Parton fans—and Stella Parton, Dolly’s sister—have issued stern rejoinders to a conservative lawmaker who claimed Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which sends over one million free books to month to children ages 0-5, could be sending children age-inappropriate content. At Read more >
Kiki, are you reading? Drake seems to be! Approximately ten hours ago, Drake (@champagnepapi) posted a photo to his Instagram story of what appears to be his TBR pile. What a time to be alive. It’s brought on a lot Read more >
On this day in 1890, perhaps after a nightmare caused by “a too-generous helping of dressed crab at supper,” Bram Stoker began work on Dracula, a novel that would take him seven years to complete. But years before that fateful Read more >
This is really cool. Researchers and literary historians have realized that the same mathematical models used by ecologists to account for lost or missing species from any given ecosystem can be applied to lost or missing literature. In this case, Read more >
Here are a few new books roaring in like a lion this week! With new books from NoViolet Bulawayo, Ladee Hubbard, Tara Isabella Burton, and more, there’s something for everyone in this bookstore bounty. * NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (Viking) “If Read more >
The New York Times today announced that Pamela Paul, who has headed the paper’s Books section and hosted the Book Review podcast since 2013, will be moving to Times Opinion as part of the paper’s expansion of its columnist ranks. Read more >
The New Literary Project has announced the shortlist of five finalists for its 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which awards a mid-career author of fiction “who has earned an extraordinarily distinguished reputation and garnered the widespread appeal of readers.” Prize Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Suad Amiry’s new novel, Mother of Strangers, which will be published by Penguin Random House this August. Mother of Strangers, based on a true story, follows the lives of 15-year-old mechanic Read more >
Generations of young readers—and their parents—fondly recall Reading Rainbow, the LeVar Burton-hosted show developed as a response to the “summer [literacy] loss phenomenon.” From 1983 to 2006, when it initially ran on PBS, it racked up 26 Emmys, and now, Read more >
Books may or may not foster empathy (if you feel like fighting on Twitter, just claim they do, you monster) but when used in significant numbers they can insulate you from many things: cold, wind, stupidity, and… incoming shrapnel. According Read more >
As war in Ukraine continues, it’s crucial to keep reading, publishing, and listening to the country’s authors. This Friday, March 4, PEN America is hosting a reading on Zoom that will bring together American and Ukrainian authors in solidarity. Paul Read more >
Writer and translator Artem Chapeye sent the following earlier this week in response to recently resurfaced comments by Noam Chomsky about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Chomsky has been a clear and much-needed critic of American imperialism over the Read more >
In a move that seems certain to piss everyone off, Dr. Seuss Enterprises yesterday announced that a series of unpublished sketches by the late Cat in the Hat author will serve as inspiration for a new line of children’s books Read more >
You might remember Miss Havisham, the withered, angry villain of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. (Incredibly, in the book, she is “scarcely forty” . . . which was never that old!) Miss Havisham, made monstrous by her spinsterhood, is almost caricaturish Read more >
Last February, Astra Publishing House announced their new literary magazine, Astra Magazine, billed as “the international magazine of literature.” Helmed by Nadja Spiegelman, former online editor of The Paris Review and author of I’m Supposed to Protect You from All Read more >
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