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 >
The New York Public Library has announced its finalists for the twenty-first annual Young Lions Fiction Award, which is given each year to an American writer age 35 or younger for a work of fiction. The finalists were chosen by Read more >
If you’re a Lord of the Rings fan and have three minutes to spare, please spare them to contribute to an oral history of Tolkien fandom! Building on Marquette University’s extensive J.R.R. Tolkien Collection, which includes original Tolkien documents and Read more >
Today, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of its 2021 fellowships, chosen through a peer-review process from nearly three thousand applicants. Of the 184 recipients—“exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship . . . and creation”—26 were awarded Read more >
Today, the Center for Fiction announced that after an extensive national search, Traci Lester has been named as the organization’s next Executive Director. Lester comes to the Center for Fiction from the National Dance Institute, where she served as Executive Read more >
Yes, you read that right. I’m about to give you the perfect book recommendation based on the way you prepare eggs. Why? Maybe it’s because Easter just happened so I have a lot of pastel-dyed, hard-boiled beauties in my fridge right Read more >
It’s William Wordsworth’s 251st birthday today, and we’re celebrating by taking a look at people who didn’t like him. (Why not?) For someone who had such wonder and amazement in his heart for, say, a mountain, Wordsworth was not a Read more >
Today marks the occasion of what would have been French writer Violette Leduc’s 114th birthday. Leduc, who died of breast cancer in 1972, is perhaps best known for creating a stir among the hard-to-shock French intelligentsia with her impressionistic, sexually Read more >
This morning, the brilliant Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rods, and Some Trick, posted a devastating Twitter thread to which many, many people in America can, unfortunately, probably relate: DeWitt had a medical emergency in December which resulted Read more >
The American Library Association has released their annual list of the most challenged books of 2020 (books with the most attempts to censor or ban them). The list is studded with books about societal inequity and discovering your identity—you know, Read more >
