So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly back into the past, making film adaptations of the same classics again and again and again. As absolutely anyone might have predicted, there’s a new development in The Great Gatsby Read more >
Cancun day-tripper or Zodiac Killer? Such is the daily challenge set by walking late night punchline Ted Cruz, whose continued presence in the national consciousness seems like cruel parody at this point. The latest bit of Cruzian skullduggery involves shady Read more >
As I write this, it’s raining in Brooklyn, my dog is curled up at my feet, and my third cup of coffee is cooling. Pretty much the perfect atmosphere for reading. (Besides, I’m fresh out of new episodes of WandaVision to Read more >
Today, the Horror Writers Association—dedicated to promoting horror and dark fantasy writers—announced the finalists for the annual Bram Stoker Award, which honors the best work in horror and dark fiction published in the last year. The Award is named in Read more >
Despite having watched several seasons of Outlander I confess I eventually gave up. Sure, the scenery is gorgeous (The Grampians! The Highlands!), and the leads are very easy on the eyes, but the incessantly soap operatic twists built around a Read more >
I don’t know what’s wrong with me or what year I think it is, but it’s just now come to my attention that Ryan Gosling has a big ol’ tattoo on his arm commemorating the most disturbing and perverse children’s Read more >
Some fun news! Today, comics publisher BOOM! Studios announced a new five-issue original series written by Victor LaValle, whose novel The Ballad of Black Tom was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula as well as a Bram Read more >
Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This gets the ephemerality of online right: images and interactions flash onscreen, seeming very important, and then, for the time being, they slip away. But not all readers are as digitally literate as Read more >
On Saturday, members of Malcolm X’s family called a press conference to reveal a letter about the alleged FBI and NYPD involvement in the murder of the late orator, author, and activist. The letter, written by former undercover NYPD officer Read more >
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on this day in 1892, so naturally I’m thinking about my introduction to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a tangential burn on her poem “God’s World” in Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Has the Answers. In the Read more >
If you’re like me, the millions of dollars you set aside for travel and leisure in 2020/2021 are now burning a hole in your pocket. These days, it feels like there’s little for a twenty-first century robber baron to spend Read more >
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 >
