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 >
It’s officially Memorial Day weekend, AKA the unofficial start of summer, and I am feeling very much like I should be sipping a fruity drink on a hot porch somewhere, listening to sunny earworms and tanning my feet, as somewhere Read more >
In the opening pages of José Saramago’s 1995 novel Blindness, a man is driving home when he suddenly goes blind. The blindness has no apparent cause, physical or otherwise—but it quickly reveals itself to be contagious: soon everyone who was Read more >
Yesterday, the National Coalition Against Censorship released a letter to the Board of Education of Columbus County Schools in Whiteville, North Carolina, condemning their position on restricting use of Laurin Mayeno’s children’s book One of a Kind, Like Me / Read more >
A volume of 31 handwritten poems by Emily Brontë, with pencil corrections by Charlotte Brontë, is going up for auction at Sotheby’s along with other rare Brontë-affiliated manuscripts and other works collected by Alfred and William Law. Sotheby’s has valued Read more >
Yes, it might seem a little late in May for an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month reading list. This is partially due to my extreme procrastination, partially due to the fact that I kept wanting to add more names, but Read more >
I love Eric Carle, and like many others, I was saddened to hear he had died this past weekend. I own a lot of Eric Carle books. This is because we are an Eric Carle family. Before my son could Read more >
On this day in 2011, the groundbreaking American poet, author, and jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron died. He was 62. Born in Chicago in 1949, Scott-Heron became well known for his 1970 song, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” The song Read more >
On Wednesday, the family of Eric Carle announced that the beloved author and illustrator died this week, in Northampton, Massachusetts, at the age of 91. Carle was, of course, best known for his 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which Read more >
The news out of Moscow/wherever Netflix is headquartered today is that the streaming giant has set a contemporary reimagining of Anna Karenina as its first-ever Russian original drama series. For the ignorant among you, Leo Tolstoy’s epic 1878 novel—considered by Read more >
Roxane Gay is not just an acclaimed writer, she’s a champion of writers: she’s edited The Best American Short Stories, founded Gay Magazine, and launched the Audacious Book Club to promote reading and discussion of powerful new literary voices. Now, Read more >
A Canadian scholar seems to think so. In what might be the discovery of the “world’s most valuable book,” Professor Robert Weir is claiming a pattern of evidence suggesting that a copy of Horace’s Odes, published in 1575, once belonged Read more >
