The BBC’s children’s channel CBeebies has had tremendous success over the past decade with its Bedtime Stories program—a ten-minute slot, airing every weeknight from 6:50 to 7, wherein a celebrity reads a children’s story to an audience of rapt rugrats across Read more >
The New York Public Library’s list of what books New Yorkers are reading as they social distance shows a taste for dystopia, other people’s problems, and Michelle Obama—so, you know, the usual. As library locations remain closed, the NYPL has Read more >
If you’re looking to add a little mobility and a lot of whimsy to your home life (or as we call it, life), and you have $783,000, you’re in luck! Shel Silverstein’s houseboat, currently floating in Richardson Bay in Sausalito, California, is Read more >
A novel set at the beginning of France’s long conquest of Algeria has won the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Algerian writer Abdelouahab Aissaoui is the first from his country to win the prize, which comes with a $50,000 Read more >
Last night, journalist Jess Hill was named the winner of the $50,000 Stella Prize, which celebrates excellence in Australian women’s writing. (The shortlisted authors, who will each receive $2,000, are: Charlotte Wood for her novel, The Weekend; Tara June Winch Read more >
Please tune in tomorrow night, Wednesday the 15th, at 7pm for a special FSG poetry reading at Lit Hub’s Virtual Book Channel. Host Hannah Aizenman, poetry coordinator at The New Yorker, will be joined by three poets, Eliza Griswold, Shane McCrae, Read more >
Today from the endless vault that is the internet: your favorite pop songs, rewritten as sonnets. I only recently stumbled across this truly hilarious and inspired (and now-defunct) Tumblr, but it made me laugh out loud in an otherwise depressing Read more >
My second favorite quarantine activity has become refreshing the bookshop.org page to see how much they’ve raised for local bookstores. (At the time that I’m writing this, they’ve crossed over the half a million line!) My first favorite quarantine activity Read more >
Poets & Writers is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020. The organization began in 1970 with a program—which continues to this day—that pays writers fees for giving readings and leading writing workshops in community-based settings. In 1973 Poets & Writers Read more >
Poets & Writers will give 80 grants of up to $1,000 to writers who have an affiliation with the organization and need emergency aid due to the coronavirus pandemic. Grants will be available to “writers with a prior affiliation with Read more >
You guys: with the A-list actors confined to their gated compounds and every notable film release date kicked months down the road as the once-unstoppable juggernaut that is Hollywood grinds to a near-standstill amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, we almost Read more >
If you have a child you’ve been trying to “homeschool” first of all, much love and solidarity to you. But also, have you been letting the kid do random educational-adjacent things like “read graphic novels for two hours” and calling Read more >
I’m tempted to include all 400 drafts of this recipe-intro, the 50 faux-cheery versions, the 50-desparing, the 18 where I told you how quickly I ate the Oreos that I’d bought for our emergency store, and the way too many Read more >
San Francisco’s iconic City Lights bookstore, which has been an anchor of the city’s literary world since Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded it in 1953, is asking for help to stay financially afloat as its doors remain closed. The store launched a Read more >
Yesterday, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2020 fellowship recipients. The folks on this list—which in total is comprised of 175 scholars, artists, and writers—were selected based on “prior achievement and exceptional promise.” Out of the 175 fellowships, Read more >
The plight of independent bookstores during the coronavirus pandemic has brought an outpouring of public support—but, along with it, an often-overwhelming deluge of messaging about whom to support and how. A new app, Save Your Bookstore, is trying to pull Read more >
The Oxford English Dictionary—which typically issues updates quarterly—is publishing a crop of coronavirus-related words out of cycle. Usually news of language evolving makes us happy, but this one is obviously much more ominous. Actually, less an omen than another shriek Read more >
The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, among the most esteemed and lucrative literary prizes in the Arab world, recognized winners across seven categories today. This year marks the 14th edition of the awards, each of which comes with a cash prize Read more >
A series of online events will raise money for Bay Area bookstores that have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic—and it begins tonight. The effort, called We Love Bookstores, kicks off with a reading and discussion from Michael Chabon and Read more >
Though it may be too early to tell how the coronavirus will affect arts-related philanthropy in the US after the crisis, for at least seven major arts organizations this moment has created an opportunity to rally in support of artists Read more >
