At least once a season—on Twitter, or Facebook, out back of saloons—there erupts an intense and all-consuming fight about how many spaces you should leave after a period. By now most of you reading this are familiar with the outlines Read more >
In the last days of my pregnancy, I despaired of how long it would be until I could finish a book again. The day my induction was scheduled, I raced through the last 50 pages of The Last Samurai, which Read more >
Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the Read more >
Photo by Jill Krementz More than four decades on from its original publication, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1978 and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize Read more >
Today, jurors begin deliberations in the trial of Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri, who has pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges—failure to disperse and interference with official acts—with which she was charged while reporting on a protest on Read more >
What’s there to say about Zelda Fitzgerald that hasn’t already been said? She was an icon of the Jazz Age, the first flapper, the face of the roaring ’20s. She was a writer, a socialite, and (obviously) the wife of Read more >
For all writers feeling bound by genre, here’s something hopefully liberating: Snopes has brought it to our attention that John Steinbeck, known for his portrayals of injustice in central California, wrote and published a horror story about a boy who Read more >
The Joyce Carol Oates Prize, which is sponsored by the Simpson Literary Project, honors a distinguished mid-career author of fiction every year. The prize comes with a $50,000 purse, and has been bestowed annually since 2017. The finalists were selected Read more >
Unless you’re a disgraced politician, trying to get a book published can be difficult, nerve-wracking, soul-denting work. If you’re anything like me, though, it really helps to hear that rejection is the rule in the publishing industry, rather than the Read more >
The Story Prize, established in 2004 and sponsored by the Chisholm Foundation, honors the best short story collection published in the previous year. The Award comes with a $20,000 purse and an engraved silver bowl, making the award one of Read more >
One of Mumford’s large adult sons has apologized for praising anti-anti-fascist Andy Ngo’s new book, Unmasked (in which, according to Alexander Nazayran at the LA Times, “Distortions and untruths hover like flies around every shred of confirmable fact.”) Look, I Read more >
If you’re a lover of great sentences (and if you’re on Lit Hub, you probably are), I can’t in good conscience recommend that you read Mario Puzo’s The Godfather. With all due respect to the late Puzo, whose most famous Read more >
If you’re looking for something interesting to do while wearing your Murakami-themed shirt and listening to your Murakami-curated bossa nova, here’s an idea: play Memoranda, a point-and-click adventure game inspired by Murakami’s short stories. Memoranda, released by Canadian indie studio Read more >
This summer, a new museum dedicated to the works of Hans Christen Andersen will open in his birthplace of Odense, Denmark. H.C. Andersen’s House looks absolutely gorgeous—it was designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and his team, who were inspired Read more >
Two of my favorite American geniuses, writer and graphic artist Art Spiegelman, and short story master Robert Coover, have collaborated on a new illustrated story, Street Cop. Street Cop is the fourth text in the literary subscription project isolarii. “Street Cop Read more >
There’s no one way to survive a pandemic (and survival is the bar here, people—those of you thriving can take it somewhere else). Aside from the real and ever-present threat of death, COVID-19 has forced us all into various kinds Read more >
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