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 >
“I have all my life been far from being an admirer,” wrote Thomas Bernhard in his novel Old Masters: A Comedy. “Nothing repels me more than observing people in the act of admiration, people infected with some admiration.” As in Read more >
Utah is making headlines again, and not because of a Mormon-related scandal, Mitt Romney, or the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (which, by the way, is a delightful circus of megalomanic #girlbosses who wear frozen Read more >
Vendela Vida’s We Run the Tides, R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell’s Kink, Sonia Faleiro’s The Good Girls, and Beverly Jenkins’ Wild Rainall feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Read more >
Chicago’s only Black woman-owned bookstore opened in the summer of 2019. Over the past two years, Semicolon has served as a vital and vibrant cultural hub and gallery space. Last summer, as the coronavirus began to tear through our country Read more >
“There could be weeks when nothing goes right.” So says 45-year-old typecaster—and last of a dwindling breed—Brian Ferret about his unlikely vocation. Brian handcrafts metal type, one by one, at Arion Press, using antique machinery to squeeze out a mix Read more >
Love, for all its infinite variety, has not changed so very much over the centuries. From ecstasy to anguish, it is a universal experience that has been expressed countless times in the great love stories and poetry. Recently, I have Read more >
Exciting news! The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is currently in the process of digitizing the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers. The collection will be fully digitized for public access by the end Read more >
What’s something that isn’t literary but feels literary? An 18,000-year-old conch shell was discovered in a cave in France, and now, we can listen to its sound via our computers. The French archeologists who originally discovered the shell missed its Read more >
Last night, I was toggling between reading If on a winter’s night a traveler and scrolling through Instagram. This is not a judgement on the novel, which is incredibly fun and brilliant; rather, it’s me admitting that I have no Read more >
