Timing is everything, but during the pandemic, it largely hasn’t been on the side of businesses. So I was recently surprised to see The Strand, whose iconic storefront in Union Square attracts thousands of visitors a year, opening a new Read more >
This is cool: The Ohioana Library Association has released a map and list tracing a new “literary trail” through the state, featuring historical landmarks, museums, unique libraries, and other hidden destinations. The list isn’t limited to the state capital of Read more >
If we here at Lit Hub know anything to be true, it is that one of life’s greatest pleasures is walking into an independent bookstore. These past pandemic-ridden months have obviously made in-person browsing, spine-touching, and book-sniffing impossible. Now that Read more >
Why oh why aren’t there more sports novels? Sure, baseball (which, if Americans didn’t keep insisting was entertaining, would have vanished from the earth decades ago) has been ably represented on the page, and surfing gets a decent showing thanks Read more >
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris would be joining him as his running mate on the 2020 presidential ticket. Twitter was divided, but the Democratic party was not. Because my brain has been addled by working at this website, Read more >
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelous, the dazzlingly-toothed daytime TV power couple, are partnering with Hulu to bring Silvia Morneo-Garcia’s bestselling horror thriller novel Mexican Gothic to the small screen. Published last month to rave reviews, and recommended by Ripa to her Read more >
Sniff every old or sort of old book you see. Close your eyes when you do it. If a stranger is reading the book, trust that they will be charmed by this. People are often charmed by you, the first Read more >
To celebrate the New York Public Library turning 125(!), the Hudson Park branch asked New York City-based artist Nick Golebiewski to paint the libraries of lower Manhattan. (My personal favorite? The Jefferson Market Library, which is just a short walk Read more >
As Lebanon continues to recover from the explosion in Beirut that killed more than 150 people and wounded thousands of others, a group of artists and writers are hosting an online event to raise money for those who are struggling. Read more >
Ah, the dog-eared days of summer. Here are 15 brand-new titles gracing us with their presence today. So what’re you waiting for? Grab your mask and head over to your favorite local indie. Then maybe get your picnic blanket and Read more >
If the sex scenes in Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel had just a little too much Bill Clinton in them for your taste, perhaps you’d be interested in reading her latest short story, “Breeze Point,” in which the paramours are pandas Read more >
This week, I stumbled upon some very good advice Kurt Vonnegut set out, in 1988, for the citizens of the world of 2088. Sure, it was part of a Volkswagen ad campaign for TIME, but it still counts as salient Read more >
Beloved NYC bookstore Bluestockings—long a fixture on the Lower East Side—has found a new home. This will come as a relief to downtown book-lovers who worried the iconic feminist bookstore was closing for good due to both pandemic woes and Read more >
This week, a reader broke the usual flow of publicity announcements and pitches in our general inbox to ask: Are we okay? “Increasingly a lot of the links I have selected in the past couple of weeks I find very Read more >
The much anticipated (by me, at least) adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers (SWOON), and directed by Ben Wheatley, now has a release date: October 21, 2020. Today, Read more >
Raven Leilani’s Luster, Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, and Jonathan C. Slaght’s Owls of the Eastern Ice all feature among Book Marks’ Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Fiction 1. Luster by Raven Leilani Read more >
Just days before it hits shelves, Diane Cook’s upcoming debut novel, The New Wilderness—about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change—is getting one hell of a publicity boost. Deadline today reported that Warner Bros. Read more >
Yes. It’s a set of bookshelves that can convert into a coffin. And yes, it’s real. Sure, it sounds like some kind of morbid gag (that we’re all quite enjoying here in the virtual Lit Hub offices, aka Slack), but Read more >
Another day, another announcement of a memoir from a former Trump collaborator. This time, it’s Fiona Hill, an ex-advisor who testified in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, whose “views about the future of a polarized America” will be published by Houghton Mifflin Read more >
In early March, on one of the last nights before everything stopped, I went to see Medea at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was one of the final nights the show was in production, and the 834-seat theater was Read more >
