I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Colson Whitehead’s new book, The Nickel Boys, came out yesterday. Inspired by the horrific true story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, an institution in Florida that was once the largest juvenile Read more >
Powell’s employees were among a group on Monday night that protested a reading at the bookstore by Blake Nelson, a Portland author whose recent work and public statements have drawn on extremist right-wing rhetoric. Nelson’s newest book, The Red Pill—published Read more >
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that the book is always better than the movie (or, in this case, the television show). That’s just the natural order of things. There are rare exceptions, of course, and perhaps the best way Read more >
Though books have been supplying the movie and tv industries with storylines since the dawn of the talkie, the rise of streaming content over the last five years has created a desperate need for more (MORE we scream as we Read more >
With robust programming already this year, 1455 (previously Virginia Center for Literary Arts, or VCLA) continues to establish the Shenandoah Valley as a hotbed of creativity and community. After the success of 1455’s monthly Author Series at Handley Library and Read more >
Katy Simpson Smith, Lit Hub contributor and the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men, has a new novel out in March next year; we Read more >
In more “thing becomes other thing” news, Sleeping Beauties, the more-than-700-page fantasy novel that Stephen King wrote with his son, Owen, is being adapted into a 10-part comic book series. The novel imagines a world in which all the women in Read more >
Sometimes the greatest secrets are right under our noses, in shuttered backrooms or buried beneath layers of decades-old junk. One researcher at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, has discovered a treasure likely to appeal to epistolary and classical fanatics Read more >
Last night, Variety reported that Lakeith Stanfield (also known as the actual best part of Atlanta, there I said it, don’t @ me) to star in a feature film adaptation of Kwame Onwuachi’s Notes From a Young Black Chef—which is 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 >
IFC has released the trailer for Vita and Virginia, tells the story of Virginia Woolf’s love affair with Vita Sackville-West (and if the trailer is any indication, their mutual love affair with headbands). Also featured: sexy smiles, greenhouse flirting, drowning foreshadowing, Read more >
The New Republic’s Emily Atkin left work early last Friday for a weekend in the woods of West Virginia, where she had no cell service. She had earned a vacation. After months of work, she and her colleagues were closing Read more >
In solidarity with the Amazon Strike—in which Amazon warehouse workers in a suburb of Minneapolis are striking to protest their terrible working conditions (unions of Amazon workers in Europe have staged strikes on Prime Days in the past, but the Read more >
Here’s a surprisingly low-stakes and silly story about a Christian publisher! The Massachusetts-based, pragmatically-named Christian book distributor, Christian Book Distributors, had to change its name to Christianbook due to all the calls it was getting from people looking for CBD, Read more >
It must be a great feeling to write an authoritative book on a compelling subject and have it discussed on a substantial national platform. Not so great: when those people fail to name either you or the title of your Read more >
Aquarius (January 20-February 18) Audre Lorde Obviously, Audre Lorde is the definition of an Aquarius. Just take a look at this bold and brilliant essay from 1985 on police brutality, Apartheid, and harnessing our power. Pisces (February 19-March 20) Gabriel García Read more >
Semicolon—a vibrant new bookstore, community space, and gallery for Chicago’s street art scene—opened its doors on Tuesday with a party and mural unveiling. The store is “just one of a handful of woman-owned bookstores in Chicago and currently its only 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 >
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 >
T. J. Martinson’s love of academia and literature came from watching his father teach in the communications department at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois; like everyone else in his family, he went to college there. This spring, when ONU Read more >
