I should preface this by saying that I’m a big fan of Steph Curry. He’s indisputably the greatest shooter of all time. He’s done more to revolutionize the game (for both good and ill I would argue, but that’s a Read more >
Today is the 59th anniversary of the first publication of Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, which chronicles 19-year-old Esther Greenwood’s depressive spiral, suicide attempt, and institutionalization. “To the person in the bell jar,” Plath writes, “blank and stopped Read more >
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the death of James Joyce: novelist, poet, and kind and cutting critic. Joyce had a full-to-the-brim writing and publishing life—that started when he was only nine years old, when his father published and distributed Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kate Beaton’s graphic memoir Ducks, which will be published by Drawn & Quarterly this September. After university, Katie Beaton went out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush, part of Read more >
Everyone knows that Jess Mariano was the most alluring boyfriend on Gilmore Girls, no questions asked. And everyone knows that if you were once a 15-year-old bookworm committed to watching Gilmore Girls almost daily, then you would have had a Read more >
The publishing industry is booming. According to Publishers Weekly, sales of print books rose 8.9% in 2021, selling 825.7 million units, up from 757.9 million in 2020. This is the second year in a row to see a similar sales Read more >
Big news for aspiring bloggers everywhere: yesterday, Roxane Gay announced that, in partnership with Substack, she is launching a new writing fellowship for three emerging writers to develop and publish a Substack newsletter this year. Fellows will receive a $25,000 Read more >
Long-awaited news: the U.S. Mint has announced they have officially begun shipping a new quarter honoring Maya Angelou. Angelou is seen on the tails side of the quarter; the image, designed by Emily Damstra and sculpted by Craig A. Campbell, Read more >
The National Endowment for the Arts has made public their list of this year’s recipients of Literature Fellowships in Creative Writing, which provide $25,000 grants to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, Read more >
My father, upon being called into school because of a fairly serious act of public nudity committed by his 16-year-old son (me) accused the vice-principal of being a Jansenist (in reference to a fairly obscure Catholic movement of the 17th Read more >
On New Year’s Day, I found myself watching one of the most delightful rom-coms I have ever seen but had only heard about recently. All hail Crossing Delancey, a film that came out (coincidentally on New Year’s Day!) in 1988. Read more >
And just like that… a whole new bunch of books coming into the world this week! Throw on your favorite Manolos and strut on over to the local bookstore, where you’re sure to find these gems. * Hanya Yanagihara, To Read more >
Today, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn—the recently appointed editor-in-chief at The Rumpus—announced that as of January 1, Alyson Sinclair is the new owner and publisher of the online literary magazine, which was originally founded by Stephen Elliott in 2009. (Sinclair is Read more >
After having to settle for bronze in 2020 (Barack Obama and Stephanie Meyer pipping him to the #1 and #2 spots, respectively), children’s book dynamo Dav “The Dog Man” Pilkey has reclaimed his title as America’s Bestselling Author, continuing his Read more >
In September, Netflix announced that it had acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, and with it, the author’s entire body of work. Now, there’s a little more info on that deal: this past week, the Daily Mail announced that, according Read more >
For weeks, the adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s atmospheric first novel Eileen, about a young-ish woman who takes a job at a boys’ prison, has been quietly shooting in New Jersey. Though no cast has been formally announced, Metuchen, NJ mayor Read more >
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