The Albertine Prize, an annual reader’s-choice award, recognizes and honors US-based readers’ favorite work of contemporary French fiction that was translated and published in the US during the previous year. The Award comes with a $10,000 cash prize, split between the has won the 2020 Albertine Prize.">Read more >
Ryan Chapman (erstwhile host of Nerd Jeopardy, back episodes of which you can enjoy here) is launching the paperback edition of his novel, Riots I Have Known, tonight, and as a veteran showman of the literary world, Chapman has decided Read more >
It’s John Milton’s 412th birthday—and we’re celebrating by taking a look at maybe the biggest Milton fanboy ever, William Blake. In a letter to his friend John Flaxman, explicating his influences, Blake lists Milton first: “Now my lot in the Read more >
SOME GOOD NEWS! Kid Cudi has just announced that he and his production company Mad Solar are set to produce an adaptation of Brandon Taylor’s Booker-shortlisted Real Life. Kid Cudi will star as Wallace, a gay Black scientist in a Read more >
On December 11, Bonham’s is hosting a Fine Books and Manuscripts auction featuring an extremely rare first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, hand-colored and still in its original binding. The survival of this copy is particularly surprising. When this illustrated Read more >
On Late Night with Seth Meyers this week, Slave Play and Daddy playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced he is donating a collection of 15 plays by Black playwrights to 53 libraries and community centers across the United States—and is donating Read more >
When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded the website Black Nerd Problems, their goal was simple: to offer a platform for people who love pop culture but are not well-represented within it. And in due time, they fostered a content community, which Read more >
Maybe it was Oscar Wilde that said, “Everything in the world is about tech except tech. Tech is about power.” Even books, which some readers fetishize for the analog experience, are digitized now; and in the next logical step after Read more >
Today, Creative Capital announced the recipients of its annual awards, which provide $50,000 and career development to emerging artists. The awards are designed to function as a long-term partnership, one that helps artists develop stable and sustainable practices that will Read more >
In maybe the most fun COVID-related news this year, the second person to get the new coronavirus vaccine in the U.K. was . . . William Shakespeare. Second patient to get the COVID jab at University Hospital Coventry – would Read more >
Another win for technology! Library users in Okayama City are able to check out library books without fear of illness, thanks to a high-tech ultraviolet light sterilizer that cleans books thoroughly. The sterilizer also blows air on the books to Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of PEN/Faulkner Award winner and author of Call Me Zebra Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s next novel, Savage Tongues, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on August 3rd, 2021. Described Read more >
‘Tis the season… to support your local bookstores! If you’re looking for presents (hello, Chanukah starts this week!), look no further than this list of brand-new books hitting shelves today. From the history of pop to Rachel Maddow’s takedown of Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the eight recipients for its Creative Nonfiction Grant, which supports multi-year book projects that require large amounts of focused thinking, research, and writing at a critical point mid-process. Each will receive $40,000 to complete their Read more >
Apparently, Scott Frank, who wrote and directed your favorite recent Walter Tevis adaptation, The Queen’s Gambit, has another literary adaptation in the works—and it also stars Anya Taylor-Joy. The Playlist reports that Frank, speaking to the podcast The Watch, revealed Read more >
Devotional poet John Donne was “the best in this kinde, that ever this Kingdome hath yet seene”—but despite his emotive work, much of his life remains unknown to us. That might change with this new discovery: a bound, handwritten volume Read more >
This morning, the Swedish Academy published the full text of Louise Glück’s acceptance speech for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in October. You can read it in full here (in English or Swedish!). In awarding Read more >
If you’ve ever rolled your eyes at some well-meaning person saying, “If you just write one sentence per day, you’ve succeeded,” check out this project: the writer Steven Arcieri is publishing monthly installments of his Decade project at The Nervous Read more >
Roald Dahl’s family and the Roald Dahl Story Company have released a short statement apologizing for the “lasting and understandable hurt” caused by Dahl’s “prejudiced remarks.” Dahl, who died in 1990, was of course a beloved author of children’s books Read more >
The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, first awarded in 2006, was created to honor the best debut fiction of the year. The winner receives a $15,000 cash prize and each shortlisted author receives $1,000. Previous winners include Tommy Orange Read more >
