Bernardine Evaristo, Booker-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, has been named the next president of the Royal Society of Literature. Evaristo will take over from Marina Warner at the end of this year, becoming the second female president—and the first Read more >
Alice Sebold has released an apology to Anthony Broadwater, who served 16 years in prison and spent 24 more years on the sex offender registry after being convicted of her rape in 1981. The conviction was based on Sebold identifying Read more >
It’s that time of year again! No, not Christmas time, but Hallmark Christmas movie time. There’s nothing like two hours of G-rated, ambiguously Christian entertainment to get you into the holiday spirit. Of course, if you prefer classic literature to Read more >
Following the overturning of the rape conviction at the center of The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold’s memoir, Lucky, Variety reports that the adaptation of the memoir has been abandoned. According to a source close to the production, the movie Read more >
Here’s something pleasant for a cold autumn Tuesday: Maisie Matilda, a UK-based painter, has amassed a following for her fore-edge paintings, scenes painted on the side of hardcover books’ pages. Focusing mainly on Dune, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Read more >
Librarians! Where would we be without them? They’re so well-Red! They take care of the books; they protect what is essentially Holy Ground. And they know All Too Well that, sometimes, to get readers to Stay Stay Stay, they need Read more >
Here’s a story out of Fulton County, Pennsylvania; I’d call it “feel-good”, but really, it’s about the public picking up governmental officials’ slack. Two of three Fulton County commissioners refused to approve an additional $3,000 in funding for their public Read more >
Manchester United striker and Tory-shaming child food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford—one of the few remaining good, pure humans in this godforsaken world—is releasing his first work of fiction for kids. Excited to announce the release of my first fiction book Read more >
Here’s your fun fact for the day: Not only was Mark Twain (née Samuel Langhorne Clemens on this day in 1835) an inventor of good stories and witty rejoinders, he was a literal inventor—of both successful and not-so-successful items. Over Read more >
Consider this blog post your daily reminder to take a short break from work. Take your dog to the park! Go get a croissant! Walk on over to your local indie! Just in case… here are a dozen new books Read more >
On this day, the magnetic, beloved actor Chadwick Boseman would have been 45 years old. I know that I speak for many people when I say that it was truly heartbreaking to learn that Boseman had been privately battling colon Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for the story collection Growing Up Chicago, edited by David Schaafsma, Roxanne Pilat, and Lauren DeJulio Bell with a foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea, which will be published by Northwestern University Press Read more >
Because capitalism is alive and well, ahead of Black Friday (which seems to be encroaching earlier and earlier), I’ve been thinking about a few fictional shopping sprees. While shopping can be gluttonous and indulgent, wasteful and vapid, in literature it also Read more >
The rape conviction at the center of The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold’s memoir, Lucky, has been overturned after an executive producer on its Netflix adaptation started asking questions about the guilt of Anthony Broadwater. Broadwater, now 61, served 16 Read more >
Something actually, genuinely fun to send you off on your holiday weekend: Tracen Wassily, a junior at Dillingham High School in Alaska, has turned the Epic of Gilgamesh into a rap. According to KDLG, Public Radio for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, Read more >
When Thanksgiving is represented in literature, it’s almost always as a showcase for extreme family dysfunction. And don’t get me wrong, I love a catastrophic dinner scene—but I also love Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday that unites so many of my Read more >
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