At my elementary school, we had something called Silent Sustained Reading (SSR), a time during which we all sat around the classroom reading whatever books we wanted in a silent and sustained manner. It turns out, you can recreate the Read more >
Here’s a strange one: Amazon has run up against a potentially pretty significant impediment to their upcoming big budget adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Apparently, the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has refused the retail and streaming behemoth permission to Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I miss the ’80s. Everything was fine in the ’80s. (I mean, it wasn’t, but I personally didn’t know that at the time.) Plus, we were all obsessed with the extravagant, delightful, “sizzle novelist” 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 >
If you love books as much as you claim to love books on Twitter, maybe you should get off Twitter and read more books! How many more books? Ask this horrifying new calculator from Omnicalculator, which takes will tell you Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
David Berman, songwriter and poet (and cartoonist), died yesterday at the age of 52. Though he never reached the widespread acclaim of Stephen Malkmus, his collaborator in the band Silver Jews, Berman was beloved to a generation of music fans Read more >
Toni Morrison, one of our very greatest American writers, died this week at the age of 88. Fittingly, the remembrances and tributes have been many, and they have also only just begun. One of them will grace the cover of Read more >
It feels like it’s been one of the worst weeks in a while and it’s barely Thursday. So I present to you this collection of 32 full-on dad-joke puns by poets Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker, in honor of the Read more >
The first time I ever encountered Toni Morrison in person was at a reading at The Riverside Church in Harlem, in the mid-1990s, not long after she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I presented her with my copy of Read more >
Fleabag is over, but if your thirst for Fleabag-adjacent content is unslakeable, you’re in luck! Fleabag: The Scriptures (great title) will be published by Ballantine on November 5 of this year. The book will feature scripts from both seasons of the show, Read more >
The American Library Association has received a petition signed by 100,000 people protesting its support for Drag Queen Story Hour, a movement of queer-affirming storytelling events at libraries, bookstores, schools, and other venues around the country. LifeSiteNews, a right-wing website Read more >
French publisher Editions de Fallois has announced that it will publish a collection of novellas and short stories by Marcel Proust, who you might remember from his very long, seven-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Read more >
Toni Morrison, the prolific author of such classics as Beloved and Song of Solomon, died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88 years old. Morrison had an outsized influence on American letters for decades, culminating in 1993 when 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 >
Hey look, here’s another very scary trailer for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark adaptation, featuring a cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” by singer and poet Lana Del Rey. Like all right-thinking 90s kids, I was Read more >
Fans of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, rejoice: not only are we getting a TV show based on The Fifth Season and its sequels, but now Green Ronin Publishing will be turning the series into a tabletop RPG to Read more >
All photos courtesy of Hannah Colen. Held in Washington D.C., the Second-Annual Asian American Literature Festival took place this year at multiple locations including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Galleries, and kicked off at Franklin Park down the Read more >
This year, for the first time in over two decades, a slew of work entered the public domain: everything first published in the United States in 1923, to be precise. (And yes, next year we’ll get the goods from 1924.) Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
