In a unanimous decision by the judges, Carmen Maria Machado has been awarded the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for her genre-bending memoir In the Dream House. Machado joins an illustrious list of former winners since the prize was founded in Read more >
Maybe it’s just because I am an Old, but when I read about the data collection activities of Epic—an online reading platform that, in fairness, is free to schools and has helped kids access digital library books during the pandemic—I Read more >
The shortlist for the 2021 International DUBLIN Literary Award, six books chosen from a longlist of nominations from public libraries around the world, has been released. The winner will be announced in May 2021, and will receive a prize of Read more >
The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the UK’s most prestigious literary awards as well as the largest literary prize for writers 39 and under, has released its shortlist for the 2021 award. This year, US-based authors dominate the Read more >
Plenty of writers have adapted, or had a hand in adapting, their own novels for the screen. Gillian Flynn did it with Gone Girl. John Irving did it with The Cider House Rules. Nick Horby did it with Fever Pitch. William Peter Read more >
Angel-headed hipsters rejoice: a new carbon typescript of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” has been discovered by rare books dealer and Beats specialist Brian Cassidy among the papers of Annie Ruff. It’s a big discovery—the newly discovered “Howl” typescript is an early Read more >
If you listen to enough comedians talk about comedy, you’ll be asked to hold a paradox in your mind: humor is completely subjective and intuitive, and also there are one thousand techniques you can use—and in fact that you should Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Tomás Morín’s latest poetry collection, Machete, which will be published by Knopf this October. Knopf describes Machete as “a lyrical, dynamic, insightful collection, at once delicate and fierce, touching on climate, Read more >
Today, the Columbia School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced the 4 winners and 2 finalists of the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, which honors the best American nonfiction writing of the previous Read more >
In a shocking tale of bureaucracy making life worse, NorthJersey.com has reported that officials of Oradell, New Jersey, are demanding that a local woman take down the Little Free Library she erected in her front yard. Why? Apparently, it violates Read more >
Legendary character actor and straight-up delightful twitterer (seriously, if haven’t spent any time on his feed, well, I truly don’t know what you’ve been doing with your online life), Vincent D’Onofrio is releasing his first book—an irreverent hybrid work of poetry and prose entitled Mutha: Stuff Read more >
The Rona Jaffe Awards, which have awarded six emerging women writers $30,000 grants per year since the awards’ founding by novelist Rona Jaffe in 1995, have been officially discontinued. In an announcement now posted to the Rona Jaffe Foundation’s website Read more >
In Laura Marsh’s excellent review of Blake Bailey’s new biography of Philip Roth, she references a few of Roth’s early writing projects, including one that has, for the last 24 hours, consumed my imagination: “He submitted a satire of ‘ornithologists’ Read more >
In honor of the 182nd anniversary of the first-ever appearance in print of O.K. (in The Boston Morning Post) I am here to start an internet copyediting war. As you can see, the original “O.K.” was very clearly an acronym, Read more >
Today, the board of The Paris Review Foundation announced the appointment of the next editor of The Paris Review: Emily Stokes, who will become only the sixth editor in the magazine’s sixty-eight years. Stokes has recently been a senior editor at The Read more >
Rejoice! Spring has sprung! Tulips are popping up to say hello! I even saw an ice cream truck the other day. Plus, if you layer up and stay strictly in the sun, you might feel a semblance of warmth. Dare Read more >
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