Forty writers, including Ocean Vuong, Ilya Kaminsky, Reza Aslan, and Viet Thanh Nguyen signed a letter urging Congress to address the brutal treatment of migrants at the US-Mexico border. In the letter, published in The Nation, the writers—who all identify as Read more >
A few days ago, Publishers Weekly reported that Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens’ debut novel and the September 2018 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club, topped a million in print sales in 2019. Today, Laura Miller at Slate had a much Read more >
Sarah Yerkes didn’t begin writing until she was in her 90s, but last month, at the age of 101, she released her first collection of poems, Days of Blue and Flame. A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Read more >
The “woke liberal colleges will indoctrinate your child” op-ed industrial complex is alive and well at the Wall Street Journal (seriously, how is this still a thing? After this? And this?). Reporting for duty is tech/markets columnist Andy Kessler who’s Read more >
I’d call it a remarkable legacy for a poet to have, whose work, over time, time and again, has allowed playwrights and musicians to plumb it for more. Admittedly I’ve read only a little of Langston Hughes’ poetry. He is Read more >
Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” How It Works: Every day, our staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. Each Read more >
Remember a few years ago when adults discovered coloring books and a wave of new pieces hailed them as a tool for mindfulness and dealing with anxiety? In a move both educational and depressingly efficient, this coloring book on climate change and renewable Read more >
The New York Times books section today featured a lovely profile by J. D. Biersdorfer of Birchbark Books & Native Arts, the Minneapolis bookstore owned by National Book Award-winning writer Louise Erdrich which provides indigenous-language guides, literature and crafts, alongside the Read more >
If you don’t know Noname, the Chicago rapper and former slam poet born as Fatimah Nyeema Warner, now might be a good time to read up following the official launch of her book club on Wednesday. The unassuming 90s kid launched Read more >
The Center for Fiction just announced the longlist for this year’s best debut novel. The shortlist will be announced in September and the winner will be announced in December at The Center for Fiction’s Annual Benefit and Awards Dinner at Read more >
Audible has made great strides toward cornering the coveted Thirsty Parents market today by announcing that Fleabag‘s Hot Priest Andrew Scott will be narrating an audiobook collection of Beatrix Potter stories. Well played, Audible! I don’t have any children, but Read more >
Megan Rapinoe, captain of the US women’s soccer team and everyone’s summer crush, now has a book deal! She’ll be writing an adult nonfiction book for Penguin, which “will include anecdotes from Ms. Rapinoe’s life,” as well as a middle-grade Read more >
Chinese authorities have shut down a Twitter account that was posting quotes from Lu Xun, who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in China from the 20th century, Echo Huang of Quartz reported Wednesday. Though Twitter is blocked in Read more >
As Susan Orlean once said (to Lit Hub’s main source of librarian wisdom, Kristen Arnett): Librarians are heroic. Obviously, as a literary website, we love librarians on principle. But principle doesn’t pay the bills! You know what does? $5,000 (depending Read more >
Who knows what #resistance hopes will be dashed by Robert Mueller’s testimony in front of Congress today, but if you want a great and thorough precis of the Mueller Report (volumes one and two), please read Mark Greif’s fantastic narrative Read more >
Today, the (newly-Man-less) Booker Prizes announced the longlist for this year’s award, one of the most prestigious in the world. Of the 13 books that make up the “Booker Dozen,” as the longlist is sometimes called, eight are by women Read more >
Boris Johnson, author of the novel The Guardian called “not quite a novel,” was announced as Britain’s next prime minister today, because apparently the British saw what was happening in the US and thought it looked pretty tasty? One early victim of Johnson’s Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
It may be summer, but that doesn’t mean you can only read on the beach. You can also read in your home! Unless, that is, your home is haunted by a ghost that hates books. If all your home ghosts Read more >
Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday has been named as this year’s winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award—a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. The pioneering Read more >
