Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Christopher Soto’s debut poetry collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press this spring. Copper Canyon notes that the collection “demands the abolition of policing and Read more >
We are officially a week into 2022. How is that resolution going? Something helpful to keep in mind is that it is totally okay to put off accomplishing your goals if you replace it with a kind of productive procrastination. Read more >
More news from Netflix’s Roald Dahl Expanded Universe: Wes Anderson has signed on to write and direct an adaption of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, a short story collection that’s aimed at a slightly older audience than most Read more >
Just dropping in to let you guys know that tonight at 5:30 pm EST the American Dialect Society will be holding a virtual voting session to select their Words of the Year. It’s free and livestreamed, and you can register Read more >
If you’ve been having a rough year so far (hi), have I got a 10,000-word gift for you! Menswear writer Derek Guy has gone deep on a style concept he has dubbed Bookcore, which is as elusive as it is Read more >
As Kaj Scheueler reported for Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, newly opened archives from the Swedish Academy have given the public a window into the Nobel Prize in Literature judging panel’s deliberations in 1971. That year, Pablo Neruda ultimately took the Read more >
This week saw the announcement of this year’s Costa Book Awards, a set of annual literary awards which recognize and honor British and Irish writers of the English language. Each award comes with £5,000; the author of the Costa Book Read more >
The jury (figuratively) remains out on how much empathy we garner from reading books, but a certain English judge is quite pleased with the progress of Ben John, the 21-year-old white supremacist who, after being charged with possessing a bomb-making Read more >
Today, the Robert B. Silvers Foundation announced the winners of the inaugural Silvers-Dudley Prizes, recognizing outstanding achievement in criticism and journalism. Named for Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of the New York Review of Books, and his longtime partner, Read more >
This week marks the 130th birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings writer, academic, and pranking enthusiast—and today we’re revisiting a time Tolkien stood up for his beliefs against his best business interests. In 1938, Tolkien Read more >
Deadline has reported that Jessica Chastain, through her cutely named production company Freckle Films, has beaten out several others to the TV rights to Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers. The School for Good Mothers, published this week by Read more >
If you—still busy catching up after the holiday week, or perhaps newly sick with a certain rapidly spreading variant, or just exhausted from dealing with the realities of same—recently saw something about Norman Mailer being canceled by a mysterious “junior Read more >
Interesting adaptation news: Deadline reported yesterday that Keanu Reeves is in talks with Hulu to star in their Paramount TV Studios-produced limited series adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City. Leonardo DiCaprio will executive produce. Larson’s 2003 Read more >
A happy update: Washington, DC bookstore Politics and Prose’s union, supported by UFCW Local 400, has now been formally recognized by the bookstore, making it the first unionized bookstore in DC. This comes after a banner year for labor activism Read more >
After all, the writer is almost as famous for his love of Gauloises as he is for his novels—this despite, of course, his frequent bouts of tuberculosis, with which he was first diagnosed at 17, and which forced him to Read more >
You’ve probably seen a lot of people on the Internet going on about their reading accomplishments of the past year and their goals for the next one. Maybe you want to explore new genres. Maybe you want to read more Read more >
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