Since there has been monetized writing, there have been scams intended to profit off it—predatory editors, fake agents and the like. Henry Brooke once declared in rhyme that scamming is the oldest profession, and he’d be happy to know it’s Read more >
COVER REVEAL REVEAL: Simon & Schuster and St. Martin’s Press have revealed the cover of Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny’s novel State of Terror, which they will publish jointly in October. If you need a refresher, here’s what the publishers Read more >
On this day in 1952, Random House published Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. The novel is narrated by a nameless Black man living in 1930s America. The narrator explains, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Proper Read more >
Many of us lament the era when writers were famous enough to shill for major national advertising campaigns, a time when novelists had the kind of name recognition you could actually sell-out with—Mickey Spillane for Miller Lite, Frederick Forsyth for Read more >
Ferrante fanatics of the world, rejoice (or, you know, despair if you like. I don’t know your taste in actors): Natalie Portman—the Academy Award-winning star of Black Swan, Jackie, and, eh, Thor: The Dark World—is set to executive produce and play the Read more >
Feature photo by Paul Moore. Fanny in Mansfield Park was right when she said that “to sit in the shade in a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment”—and Austen fans will soon be able to Read more >
The artist Liu Ye is probably most famous for his lovable creation Miffy, or possibly for his paintings inspired by Piet Mondrian, but I’ve recently discovered something I like even better: Ye’s Book Painting series, which is full of meticulous, almost Read more >
The Paris Review has awarded Eloghosa Osunde the 2021 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a $10,000 award celebrating an outstanding story by an emerging writer published in the magazine, for her story “Good Boy.” Osunde joins past winners Ottessa Moshfegh, Yiyun Read more >
Full disclosure: I grew up reading all of Tintin and loved the comics very much, as did most of my large and unruly family. However, it is also plainly obvious that, at best, they’re written from an incredibly narrow and Read more >
Get ready for some discourse! This morning, Faber & Faber revealed the cover for Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, which will be published in the US by FSG on September 7. (It’s unclear whether the US cover will Read more >
As you, readers of this site, obviously know: having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card. Sorry, this bop will now be stuck in your head for days. But it’s a good reminder that you can find/request these Read more >
Today marks the 74th birthday of the late Kathy Acker: titan of literary punk, defying genre and format, collaging autobiography and reference texts. There’s no shortage of great writing examining facets of Acker’s work—in Lit Hub alone, you can learn Read more >
A brief, unsurprising, and characteristically unpleasant update on the Andrew Cuomo book deal debacle: several current and former Cuomo staffers have anonymously told the Times Union that, counter to Cuomo’s claims, staffers were given tasks related to Cuomo’s memoir about Read more >
Have you seen some ceremonial swords where they shouldn’t be? What if you saw them 43 years ago? Well, you’re in luck: as of today, the Kansas City FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the location of Read more >
Even in boomtimes it is hard to keep a bookstore afloat: the margins are razor thin and you’re in constant competition for bookbuyers with the largest monopoly in the universe (Am*zon). This is why a lot stores—particularly newer ones—build higher-margin Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to exclusively announce the publication of Ottessa Moshfegh’s next novel, Lapvona, which was written during the pandemic and is scheduled to be published by Penguin Press next summer. Here’s what the publisher had to say about Read more >
Haruki Murakami’s First Person Singular, Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander, Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd, and Brandi Carlile’s Broken Horses all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for Read more >
Tomorrow, we celebrate the 174th birthday of Joseph Pulitzer, now most well-known for establishing the Pulitzer Prizes with his endowment to Columbia University. But in his time, he was an elected Democratic congressman from New York fighting corruption, and the Read more >
Today, April 9th, marks the fifty-eight publication anniversary of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Perhaps the most beloved children’s book of the latter half of the 20th century, Sendak’s gorgeously-illustrated tale of a young boy in a wolf suit Read more >
In a 1974 interview with Michael Parkinson, Orson Welles sat in a big leather chair, smoking a big ol’ cigar, and discussed his “very close friend” Ernest Hemingway. “We had a very strange relationship,” he explained. “I never belonged to his Read more >
