This morning, Publishers Marketplace reported the news of a brand new debut author hitting the literary scene with their very first novel. That author is Quentin Tarantino, and that novel is . . . Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Read more >
Terry McMillan broke the most exciting literary adaptation news of the month on Friday afternoon when she tweeted this to her 263k followers: So, WAITING TO EXHALE is going to be a TV series. Produced by Lee Daniels. Attica Locke Read more >
In 1992, José Saramago, who would have been 98 years old today, left his native Portugal for Lanzarote, an island in the Canaries, and a house which he famously described as “a house made of books.” As the story goes, it Read more >
Recently, scholars unearthed a trove of unpublished love poems by Anthony Burgess—and, as it turns out, a few hate poems too. In one of the newly discovered verses, “A Sonnet for the Emery Collegiate Institute,” Burgess gleefully insults A Clockwork Read more >
Some sad news this morning for all the poetry lovers out there: Poets House announced today it would suspend operations effective immediately, “due to budgetary issues caused by the Coronavirus.” Lee Briccetti, who has led Poets House as executive director Read more >
Every morning I get up and do my morning pages, by which I mean read my morning pages, by which I mean read the one long page that is my Twitter feed. So recently I’ve started subscribing to newsletters, so Read more >
In quarantine, some of us have more time on our hands than others—maybe none more so than the anonymous architect-cum-political critic who has taken the time to digitally render their take on the Trump presidential library. The library serves as Read more >
Tomorrow marks sixty years since civil rights icon, activist and writer Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to integrate a Southern elementary school—and today, Scholastic announced three forthcoming books written by Bridges, which will be released from spring 2022-23. Read more >
It is a truth universally acknowledged . . . that the CW is developing an anthology series inspired by Jane Austen’s works! The series, titled Modern Austen, will tackle a different Jane Austen novel each season and reimagine it as Read more >
Danielle Evans’ The Office of Historical Corrections, Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest, Jo Nesbø’s The Kingdom, and Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” Read more >
Good morning! Here are some cool, true facts that we now know about Jonathan Franzen’s next novel. 1. It will be published by FSG on October 5, 2021. 2. It will be called Crossroads: A Novel: A Key to All Read more >
Today, Penguin Press announced plans to publish New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s book about Donald Trump. The currently untitled book, set to hit shelves in 2022, will span several decades of the president’s life, from his early days as Read more >
It’s been almost a quarter century since perhaps the most maligned film of the 1990s bombed out of American cinemas and permanently damaged the reputations of both Oscar-winner Marlon Brando and should-be-an-Oscar-winner Val Kilmer (not to mention those of Ron Read more >
Today, Sky UK shared a first look photo from a new biopic about Roald Dahl, his wife Patricia Neal, and the death of their daughter, Olivia, in 1962. To Olivia stars Hugh Bonneville as Dahl and Keeley Hawes as Neal, Read more >
The robots are coming for our jobs, but I think I was hoping they would avoid niche literary media a bit longer. Alas, our day has arrived: Booxby, an AI-driven platform that collects data from manuscripts for marketing purposes, has Read more >
Of all the strange silences that have filled New York City during the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps none is as creepy as the particular silence in Midtown, where theaters have been sitting dark and empty since the spring, with only the Read more >
As you may know, Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon that shares proceeds of every sale it makes with independent booksellers, recently launched in the UK (missing the obvious opportunity of rebranding itself “Bookshoppe”). And when I say recently, I mean Read more >
The PEN America/L’Engle-Rahman Prize for Mentorship honors four mentor/mentee pairs in PEN America’s prison writing mentorship program, which links established writers with those currently incarcerated. The Award is named after the late acclaimed author Madeleine L’Engle and her 10-year written friendship with Read more >
Wow, yet another upside of quarantine—according to thinkpieces everywhere, they just keep coming! Research compiled by writing and proofreading service Global English Editing shows that 35% of people in the world have read more books than usual since COVID began. Read more >
We’re celebrating Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 199th birthday by looking at him through the lens of Vladimir Nabokov, who insulted Dostoevsky every chance he could. Nabokov was a famously harsh critic, calling Hemingway “hopelessly juvenile” and Ezra Pound’s work “pretentious nonsense”—but some Read more >
