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 >
Today in Nice Things on the Internet, No Really, They Exist: a piece of music written by Mason Moy for the JMU Jazz Band, named after Lauren Groff’s novel Fates and Furies. The piece, directed by Dave Stringham, is lovely—and Read more >
World Literature Today has announced the nine finalists for the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. According to a press release, the prize, which comes with a $50,000 purse, “recognizes significant contributions to world literature and has a history as 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 >
SPCK Publishing announced Friday that it will reprint We Need to Talk About Race by Ben Lindsay after its title and cover drew criticism for close similarities with Reni Eddo-Lodge’s award-winning Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. “It Read more >
Do you daydream about sitting on a creaking deck chair somewhere in the Florida Keys, sipping from a sweating glass of dark rum, rereading The Old Man and the Sea while a cool ocean breeze gently tickles your silvery beard, Read more >
This morning, Open Culture pointed me to the work of screenwriter and graphic artist Todd Alcott, who—when he’s not writing movies—translates his favorite songs into vintage book covers, mostly of the pulp fiction and mid-century modern variety, but with some Read more >
Lily Allen, who once wrote a song about what a loser her brother Theon Greyjoy was, took The Guardian‘s “Books That Made Me” questionnaire, and landed on the objectively correct answer to the question of which book she wishes she’d written: 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 >
Man, people make fun of chick lit a lot! I get it—often products (including books) are marketed to women in an insulting way, and I think the criticism of chick lit is often more about the marketing than about the Read more >
Places of Poetry, an interactive online mapping project, has gathered more than 2,000 poems pinned to locations in England and Wales that correspond to them. Poet Paul Farley and Andrew McRae of the University of Exeter, who are leading the Read more >
If you’re like me, I’m guessing that reading the entire 448-page Mueller report—as important as it is—is not at the very top of your 2019 summer to-do list, and in fact probably comes after literally every single other thing you Read more >
Good news for all fans of high quality literary crime fiction out there: this morning, Laura Lippman and her publisher, William Morrow, announced that the prize-winning crime novelist has inked a five (5) book deal, which includes three new novels, Read more >
This morning, the Whiting Foundation has announced the winners of the second annual Literary Magazine Prizes, which are given “for superb publishing, advocating for writers, and strengthening the literary community.” This year, the number of awards was increased from three Read more >
