Now that I’m more or less confined to my apartment in Brooklyn, I’m more drawn than ever to books and movies about New York—watching them feels like a small way to keep engaging in life here when it feels like Read more >
We’ve already brought your attention to the ways you can help bookstores (and bookstore workers) during the coronavirus pandemic, and here’s another one: a collective of recently laid-off booksellers has started an online storefront at Bookshop.org (in case you missed Read more >
Playwright Terrence McNally, four-time Tony Award winner, Emmy winner, and recipient of the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, died today at the age of 81 “from complications related to the coronavirus,” according to his publicist. McNally Read more >
Look, we’re all a little tense right now—torn between an overwhelming urge to panic and a Marie Kondo-like desire to transform our cells apartments into individualized oases of calm. It’s only natural that in our dread-sodden solitude we become susceptible to extreme Read more >
In this time of canceled events, closed bookstores, and ambient anxiety, Beowulf Sheehan, noted literary photographer and the eye behind many of your favorite portraits of writers, has started a new project to highlight authors and their work. Sheehan writes: With Read more >
N.K. Jemisin’s novel The City We Became is available now. The apartment building is only a few blocks from Inwood Hill Park. The park is gigantic, Manny remembers seeing on a map somewhere. (He seems to have no trouble remembering general facts, Read more >
Supporting your favorite small, independent bookstore during this strange stretch is important, but what’s more important: stopping the spread of COVID-19. So, dear reader, please stay home, get excited for these brand-new books, and buy a gift card from your Read more >
The coronavirus pandemic has hit independent bookstores hard, with booksellers and other book workers now in need of emergency support. Here are some opportunities we’ve spotted to help out, but please let us know of any others and will add Read more >
Big congratulations to novelist Ruchika Tomar, author of A Prayer For Travelers and winner of the $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! This year’s judges were R.O. Kwon, Terese Marie Mailhot, and David L. Ulin. Of their choice, they said: Tomar Read more >
More and more public libraries are temporarily closing shop across the country to limit the spread of coronavirus, but their Wi-Fi can still be a valuable resource for communities, the American Library Association said Monday. Libraries that close should leave Read more >
Bookstores are very close to our hearts here at Lit Hub. By now we all know how devastating this pandemic is going to be for independently owned businesses of all kinds, as federal help inevitably trickles first to corporations (despite Read more >
Good news for fans of layered, literary, female-led dramedies: SMILF creator Frankie Shaw is set to direct a feature film adaptation of T Kira Madden’s acclaimed 2019 memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. “T Kira’s story is a Read more >
For all those Concerned Citizens who have been up at night worrying about The Censorship of Woody Allen—yes folks, they’re out there, I get emails—take heart: Allen’s memoir, dropped earlier this month by Grand Central after employees walked out en Read more >
“Lena Dunham is writing a novel” would be a thoroughly unsurprising (if ill-timed) announcement. But “Lena Dunham is writing a serialized, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style novel” is slightly more interesting! According to Vogue, which will publish the daily installments, the project is “in Read more >
This week, actor Michael Gaston started #readasonnet, challenging his friends and colleagues directly to share sonnets with the world. Now actors are performing sonnets (and not just by William Shakespeare) in their homes and putting them online to soothe us Read more >
As a result of the spread of COVID-19, every responsible person in this country (and honestly, in the world) should be practicing serious social distancing right now. It’s not easy, of course—but it’s a little easier when you know you Read more >
This year’s female-dominated Windham-Campbell Prize recipients illustrate the richness of literature’s diversity and depth among authors whose work explores urgent topics across identity, culture, power, and class. In poetry, British-Indian poet Bhanu Kapil is known for exploring questions of trauma, Read more >
In a strange but delightful turn of events, actress Jennifer Ehle, beloved for her turn as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice series, was spotted reading from the opening of the novel on Instagram live. Omg, Jennifer Ehle has Read more >
There is some truly wonderful news coming out of New York City this afternoon. The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world’s leading institutions to document African American history and culture, has Read more >
In my pre-pandemic life, I rolled my eyes at the franchising of absolutely everything (except, of course, The Fast and the Furious, because you can’t argue with entertainment). Now, though, I’m finding comfort in familiar universes. Is this a flimsy Read more >
