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 >
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, first awarded in 2006, honors an author and recognizes a work of fiction and nonfiction that promotes peace, social justice, and global understanding. The winner from each category receives a cash prize of $10,000. Previous Read more >
Happy 98th birthday, Kurt Vonnegut—and congratulations! IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to the documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, with plans to release the film in the summer of 2021. Unstuck in Time follows the celebrated, power-critiquing, Read more >
Feature photo by Dan Hadani, used with permission of The Singer Literary Trust. Singer often feels like a familiar entity—yet he never ceases to surprise. As discussed in this companion essay, he is known as a storyteller and memoirist, but Read more >
Aside from the fear and anxiety and loneliness of the pandemic many people have picked up diversionary non-digital habits over the last eight months: baking, gardening, woodworking, and, of course, constructing elaborate miniature gourmet meals for the local chipmunk. Since Read more >
It was announced earlier today that MGM is teaming with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and director Kamilah Forbes on a film adaptation of National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 bestselling novel, The Water Dancer. Coates’ Read more >
As the possibility of a vaccine becomes more real and we start to ask what art will look like after COVID, it’s worth looking back on not just all the bad quarantine writing but all the thoughtful, immediate quarantine writing as Read more >
In the last four years, there have been so many Trump books. Many have been massive bestsellers. Many have dominated the headlines, steered the conversation for days. So can you really blame any publishing house for jumping at the chance Read more >
