Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (not to be confused with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) is, to my mind, the single greatest horror story ever written, as well as the single greatest work of art ever created by a teenager (with apologies to Messrs. Read more >
Art by Xavier Marabout When I was a kid, I loved the Tintin books. I had every one (except the ones that Hergé pulled from print due to their racist undertones), and a poster, and a little stuffed Snowy to Read more >
The UK arm of Bookshop.org, the online retailer that partners with indie bookstores, has a new initiative on the way: it’s launching a series of online events for its customers as well as customers of unaffiliated indies. For the first Read more >
Every so often, there comes a piece of adaptation news so perfect that I almost regain my faith in Hollywood (which is technically just a small piece of the expanded Marvel Universe at this point). Today, that news is that Read more >
Though the mentions of Shakespeare writing King Lear in quarantine have mercifully decreased, it’s hard to shake the hustler’s mindset. With this vaccine rollout comes a nagging thought: when the pandemic ends, what will you have to show for it? Read more >
Today in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun opened to widespread acclaim at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway; the show, after a century of Broadway productions, was the first work on Broadway written by a Black woman. Read more >
Pop culture depictions of, for lack of a better term, Twenty-Something Girls Just Figuring Shit Out, rarely include anyone who isn’t white. Despite living in New York City, the girls of Girls were white. Two Broke Girls? Again, white. Frances Read more >
At least once a season—on Twitter, or Facebook, out back of saloons—there erupts an intense and all-consuming fight about how many spaces you should leave after a period. By now most of you reading this are familiar with the outlines Read more >
In the last days of my pregnancy, I despaired of how long it would be until I could finish a book again. The day my induction was scheduled, I raced through the last 50 pages of The Last Samurai, which Read more >
Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the Read more >
Photo by Jill Krementz More than four decades on from its original publication, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978 and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize Read more >
Today, jurors begin deliberations in the trial of Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri, who has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges—failure to disperse and interference with official acts—with which she was charged while reporting on a protest on Read more >
What’s there to say about Zelda Fitzgerald that hasn’t already been said? She was an icon of the Jazz Age, the first flapper, the face of the roaring ’20s. She was a writer, a socialite, and (obviously) the wife of Read more >
For all writers feeling bound by genre, here’s something hopefully liberating: Snopes has brought it to our attention that John Steinbeck, known for his portrayals of injustice in central California, wrote and published a horror story about a boy who Read more >
The Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which is sponsored by the Simpson Literary Project, honors a distinguished mid-career author of fiction every year. The prize comes with a $50,000 purse, and has been bestowed annually since 2017. The finalists were selected Read more >
Unless you’re a disgraced politician, trying to get a book published can be difficult, nerve-wracking, soul-denting work. If you’re anything like me, though, it really helps to hear that rejection is the rule in the publishing industry, rather than the Read more >
The Story Prize, established in 2004 and sponsored by the Chisholm Foundation, honors the best short story collection published in the previous year. The Award comes with a $20,000 purse and an engraved silver bowl, making the award one of Read more >
One of Mumford’s large adult sons has apologized for praising anti-anti-fascist Andy Ngo’s new book, Unmasked (in which, according to Alexander Nazayran at the LA Times, “Distortions and untruths hover like flies around every shred of confirmable fact.”) Look, I Read more >
If you’re a lover of great sentences (and if you’re on Lit Hub, you probably are), I can’t in good conscience recommend that you read Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. With all due respect to the late Puzo, whose most famous Read more >
If you’re looking for something interesting to do while wearing your Murakami-themed shirt and listening to your Murakami-curated bossa nova, here’s an idea: play Memoranda, a point-and-click adventure game inspired by Murakami’s short stories. Memoranda, released by Canadian indie studio Read more >
