I have always been an outsider at Winter Institute, the American Booksellers Association’s annual conference—and yet I love it so. Having only attended four of the last six I am a relative newcomer compared to many of the legendary booksellers Read more >
Food, like a great novel, can tell a story. The storytelling opportunities are endless: the way we eat, the culinary traditions we pass down from one generation to the next, and communal rituals can provide deeper insight into ourselves and Read more >
Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This, Roberto Bolaño’s Cowboy Graves, Henry Louis Gates’ The Black Church, and Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disasterall feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Read more >
New Turing test just dropped: The first play written entirely by a robot. AI: When A Robot Writes A Play, will be performed at Czech Centre London on February 26., and will be followed by a debate with both theater Read more >
If you, dear reader, have gotten really into your houseplants during this quarantine, this list is for you. Partially because I am obsessed with my own 33(!) plants and partially because I am trying to make the lunch trip I Read more >
Some welcome news for those of you with little ones running and/or crawling around your ankles right now: Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o’s bestselling 2019 children’s book Sulwe is getting a small screen musical adaptation. Netflix announced earlier today that Sulwe will join a Read more >
Literary pivot alert! Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly announced we’re getting a new novel from A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility author Amor Towles, out from Penguin Random House on October 5. Towles told EW that he “likes to mix Read more >
Yesterday, TIME released their annual TIME 100 Next list, a list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future.” The list includes doctors and scientists fighting COVID-19; journalists and activists; and innovating artists—but here at Lit Hub we’re particularly Read more >
People like to joke about their infinite to-be-read piles taking over their bedrooms (or, alternately, lament the impossibility of reading even a fraction of the books they’d like to before the sweet embrace of death, which, if you do math…). Read more >
Some good news: today, Publishers Weekly reported that We Need Diverse Books is partnering with Penguin Random House on a series of programs to get more books by Black writers published. The Black Creatives Fund initiative involves a “Revisions Workshop”; Read more >
Cameron Williams, a former staffer at Chattanooga Public Library and a local Black Lives Matter activist, has been fired from his library job three months after being accused of “improperly” burning books written by Donald Trump and Ann Coulter. In Read more >
If you’ve been longing to learn the origin story of Cruella de Vil (?), the wait is over: Today, Disney released the official trailer for Cruella. Emma Stone, Academy Award-winner, former Spider-Man love interest Gwen Stacy, and transracial Aloha actress, has Cruella.">Read more >
Today, Aspen Words—a program in the Aspen Institute—announced the finalists for the 2021 Aspen Literary Awards, which recognizes and honors a work of fiction that addresses a pressing contemporary issue. The Award comes with a $35,000 purse, and previous winners Read more >
Just when we finally escaped from the internet-wide thirst around the young stars of the BBC/Hulu’s first Sally Rooney adaptation, we have four more extremely hot members of the Sally Rooney Expanded Universe to ogle. Deadline has announced the stars Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the fifth annual Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which awards $1,000 to an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman, aged 30 or younger, Read more >
This weekend, while agonizing over yet another dismal showing from my favorite Premier League team (you’ll never walk alone . . . but honestly), I heard a rumor about Albert Camus: that once upon a time, the extremely French writer Read more >
For all the fake news fearmongering of the last four years, we’re still very susceptible to myths presented as fact when they’re deployed with authority. Last week saw the viral Facebook resurgence of a popular tweet from 2018 which claimed Read more >
Is there anything better than the days after Valentine’s Day, when perfectly delicious chocolate is discounted? I know I’m not alone in stocking up! But, hey, since you’re out anyway, you may as well stop by your local indie and Read more >
It’s well-known at this point that Haruki Murakami loves music. Music features heavily in his writing; he’s published Absolutely On Music, his music-related conversations with Seiji Ozawa, former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; he’s hosted radio hours; the library Read more >
You may remember Anna Sorokin, d/b/a Anna Delvey, as the vanguard of 2018’s Summer of Scam. The fake German heiress (she’s actually a Russian non-heiress) bluffed her way into everything from six-figure bank loans (an objectively cool and victimless crime Read more >
