One of the best job titles in America will continue to survive thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is awarding $4.5 million to the Academy of American Poets to continue supporting poets laureate in states and cities across Read more >
The following post has been updated with a response from the website squatter. There are traditional ways to get a book published—pitches, queries, agents, enduring months and years of soul-crushing work and silence—and then there’s blackmail. A writer is currently Read more >
As Publishers Marketplace reports, MCD/FSG will be publishing not one but two new books from the late Katherine Dunn, author of the transcendently good Geek Love. In the first, Toad, “a woman who has retreated into a life of isolation Read more >
Children’s book publisher Lee & Low Books, a minority-owned company that focuses on multicultural literature, recently released the results of a survey geared towards finding out one thing: What do the numbers say about the widely perceived lack of diversity Read more >
With the exception of this brief excerpt, I haven’t read any of Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times, the debut work of cultural criticism by Assistant Professor in Sociology at McMaster University, Phillipa K. Chong. It might be Read more >
Yesterday Twitter proved that I am not, in fact, alone in my font neuroticism. After author Séan Richardson posted this on Twitter… Please reveal the deepest part of yourself: Which font and which size do you write in? — Séan Read more >
Because they have nothing to hide about anything, the White House has issued some kind of threat—according to CNN’s Jake Tapper—in a formal letter to former National Security Adviser John Bolton, whose forthcoming memoir from Simon & Schuster contains first-hand Read more >
We hope it goes without saying that here at Lit Hub, we! Love! Books! They are the most precious and sacred objects. Turning down the page of one to make your place is tantamount to breaking your best friend’s finger Read more >
Today, PEN America announced their 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists. The awards will dole out 330,000 to writers and translators for exceptional works published in 2019. The winners will be announced live on March 2, at the 2020 PEN Read more >
The author of Younger—the novel on which the wildly popular TV show starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff is based—has just sold a new novel, Older. Pamela Redmond’s Younger tells the story of a woman who, after leaving her job in Read more >
This is a sad and simple human gesture in the face of death. Within hours of learning Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash, novelist Paulo Coelho—most famous in the US for his 1988 novel The Alchemist—deleted the draft Read more >
Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this Read more >
If you love Margaret Atwood but don’t feel like immersing yourself in a too-close-to-home dystopia at the moment, good news! Dearly, Atwood’s first poetry collection in more than a decade, will be published by Ecco November 10, 2020. What better way Read more >
Sure, this a somewhat vague and slightly dubious question to ask (there are probably as many ways to “measure” a city’s appeal to a booklover as there are to define what a booklover is) but Apartment Guide has attempted to Read more >
Finally, some Brexit news for grammar pedants! The new commemorative Brexit 50p piece (cursed phrase) is missing an Oxford comma. The coin reads “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations” (lol, k). Phillip Pullman called for the coin’s boycott on Read more >
Some very important parts of former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir, The Room Where It Happened: A Washington Memoir (Simon & Schuster, March 17), have leaked. The bit that everyone is talking about confirms that Donald Trump did, Read more >
The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallowed of American institutions: Read more >
Swansea University just announced the longlist for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize. Since 2006, this prestigious award has been celebrating young writers. The £30,000 purse (that’s $39,191.85, or 2,799 Sweetgreen salads, friends) is awarded to the best published literary Read more >
On Wednesday, more than 160 writers, academics, and civil liberties organizations signed an open letter addressed to the president of Babson College weeks after the firing of Asheen Phansey, the college’s former Director of Sustainability, who was dismissed earlier this month Read more >
There’s a new trailer for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 novel The Last Thing He Wanted, starring Anne Hathaway as a Wants-to-Do-Right reporter who, in the course of investigating a story, becomes entangled in an international Read more >
