Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The National Book Awards, created in 1950, is the most prestigious literary prize in the United States, rewarding quality and cogent writing. This year’s Read more >
Australia has spoken, and J.K. Rowling is out. Rabble Books & Games in Maylands, Australia, said earlier this week that the store would stop stocking her books due to this, this, or this, all of which, it’s not so wild Read more >
There are very few celebrities whose meals interest me. (Yes, I do hate Instagram, thank you.) But here’s one: Stanley Tucci, who announced today that he’s working on a memoir called Taste: My Life Through Food. Publisher Gallery Books described Read more >
Stanley Crouch, jazz critic, playwright, novelist, public intellectual, celebrated—and controversial—essayist, and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, died on Wednesday at the age of 74. “Mr. Crouch defied easy categorization,” wrote Sam Roberts in The New York Times. A former Black nationalist Read more >
We’ve known for a while that Barack Obama would be coming out with a new memoir. Today his publisher confirmed that the book, A Promised Land, will be released soon after the November elections. The former president isn’t a stranger to Read more >
And now, it’s the time for the poets! Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. The National Book Awards, created in 1950, is the most prestigious literary prize in the United Read more >
Why yes, it’s the RPG of your dreams: You are seminal American modernist poet WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. It is late at night and you are HUNGRY. Investigate the KITCHEN for something to EAT. Play it all out here. (You won’t Read more >
Lil Nas X has been riding off the success of last year’s single “Old Town Road” for a while now (a fact he commonly makes fun of himself). There was a time last summer when it felt like a new Read more >
Here’s a moment of good news for your midweek slump: Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is back. Several years after making her debut with The Nest—a novel that earned a seven-figure advance from Ecco and inspired a movie project, currently under development Read more >
In more literary news, the National Book Foundation has just announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The longlist includes ten novels originally published in eight different languages: Arabic, German, Spanish, Persian, Tamil, Korean, Japanese, Read more >
Stephen King’s It, the novel that birthed a million Coulrophobics (and, hopefully, far fewer underage sewer orgies), celebrates its 34th publication anniversary this week. King’s 1100-page opus of childhood horror—in which seven children in a small Maine town are terrorized by Read more >
The murderous unicorns are coming! A 28-year-old lawyer and debut children’s book author from England, Annabel Steadman, has landed what is reportedly the largest children’s book deal ever—a healthy seven figures—for a fantasy adventure series, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. The Read more >
In the age of quarantine, book clubs are alive and well! A shocking number of my friends who had previously expressed very little interest in discussing books with me are now #bookstagram-posting fiends. (You know who you are!!) This minor Read more >
‘Tis the season for book awards! Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The National Book Awards, created in 1950, is the most prestigious literary prize in the United States, Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the five print and digital winners for its third annual Literary Magazine Prizes. Since launching in 2018, the Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes seek to recognize, reward, and support publications that actively nurture writers who produce extraordinary Read more >
Well, not really, but Sarah Snook (aka Succession‘s Siobhan ‘Shiv’ Roy) has been cast as the lead in director Mahalia Belo’s upcoming adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1817 romance, Persuasion, so the fan fiction does kind of write itself at this point. According Read more >
Exclusive: the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, launched and administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses, and the National Book Foundation, has announced that it will distribute $3.5 million in emergency funding to 282 Read more >
List-making: it used to be so simple. Now, just noting that a number of museums are opening to visitors in New York City—where they’ve been closed since the coronavirus shut down the entire world—requires some explanation and a light understanding Read more >
Today, the Rona Jaffe Foundation announced their six 2020 Writers’ Awards recipients. The award, which comes with a $30,000 grant, was created to distinguish and support emerging women writers of promise in the early stages of their writing careers. Previous Read more >
While we here at Lit Hub wholeheartedly believe that every season is the right season to curl up with a good book, there’s just something about the fall! Hot coffee, cozy sweaters, decorative gourds, vanilla candles. It’s a #bookstagram dream. Read more >
