If you are currently living out your quarantine with an argumentative reader of fantasy and science fiction (possibly this person is your child, who knows), or if you aren’t but would like to be, you may get a kick out Read more >
Living in a state of quarantine right now involves developing a strange, contradictory relationship to stimulus; the quiet pace of life indoors belies the frantic, endless flow of news from outside, if you choose to follow it. A Delicate Sight, Read more >
Well, well, well. It looks like 2020 isn’t the only year with a concerning case of the hots for Dr. Anthony Fauci. But while today’s lust stems from the NIAID director’s pandemic-related competence, in 1991 he played a slightly more Read more >
If you, like me, loved Sayaka Murata’s 2019 novel Convenience Store Woman, I have some good news for you: Murata’s next novel, Earthlings, also translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, is slated to hit shelves in October, and it is about Read more >
Recently on Twitter (because where else does anyone go these days), I was alerted to this 19th Century Character Trope Generator, which is . . . well, exactly what it says and no more. It is surprisingly diverting for such Read more >
The Association of University Presses has announced its selections for the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, now in its 55th year. The selected books will be displayed at the Association of University Presses Annual Meeting (digital this year), and Read more >
The future may be uncertain, but one thing we can always count on is the bunch of new books that come into the world every Tuesday. Welcome, friends. * Emma Straub, All Adults Here (Riverhead) “Straub cements her status as a Read more >
The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes were just announced via video stream. Originally scheduled for April 20th, the announcement was postponed this year because of the pandemic. The award ceremony, typically held in May at Columbia University, will be Read more >
I have long enjoyed exchanging recorded “letters” with loved ones thousands of miles away. There’s something about the voicemail-as-letter that doesn’t quite have the formal pressure of the written word, but can also exist outside the stresses and banalities of Read more >
Fifty-seven years ago this month, Frank O’Hara moved into his last New York apartment, a floor-through loft at 791 broadway, across from Grace Church. As Brad Gooch describes it in his fabulous biography, City Poet, the place sounds like a deal. Read more >
Well, here’s something! Stephenie Meyer announced on Good Morning America that she would release Midnight Sun, a retelling of the Twilight saga from the perspective of the emotionally abusive vampire. In 2008, Meyer abandoned the manuscript after the first 12 chapters were leaked Read more >
The National Book Foundation’s Innovations in Reading Prize is awarded every year to an individual or organization that has encouraged a lifelong love of reading. This year’s award goes to DIBS for Kids, a Nebraska-based literacy nonprofit that’s dedicated to Read more >
Dear Lit Hub reader, we’re taking the day off. We’ve published a lot of great stories today, so you’ll be fine, but we’re not going to be blogging at The Hub (or replying to emails, or making jokes on the Read more >
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every article David Grann writes will be turned into a Hollywood film. In the last five years, four of the award-winning New Yorker staff writer’s longform pieces have been adapted for the screen (“True Crime,” “Lost Read more >
Today, the Library of Congress announced that Librarian Carla Hayden has appointed beloved poet Joy Harjo to serve a second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the United States. “Joy Harjo is such an inspiring and Read more >
Well, it’s almost May, and you know what that means: the end of the weirdest National Poetry Month of all of our lives. To close it out, the Academy of American Poets has organized Shelter In Poems: A Virtual Reading, Read more >
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to highlight the massive and devastating inequality in the US, the work of socially progressive publishers is more important than ever. With the goal of supporting one another during the uncertainty of the pandemic, a Read more >
The Obamas are building a media empire, one that has already seen such immense success you would think they were Old Hollywood. Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground, scored a big victory earlier this year when a documentary Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I am desperate, these days, for good news—not to mention things to look forward to. So I was happy to be alerted this afternoon to one undeniably good thing in the pipeline of the Read more >
While the rest of us feel guilty about not using our quarantine productively, a group of 46 Portuguese writers is co-authoring a serial novel that begins with scientists searching for the vaccine to a virus that has overtaken the globe. Read more >
