[this post contains a description of suicide] In 2000 shortly after my first novel was published in the UK, it was bought in Italy by one of the most charismatic and passionate of publishers, Elisabetta Sgarbi, who was then at 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 >
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. Read more >
Every now and then, a particular conversation flares up online (as it does in the old fabled halls of the academy). This would be the “crisis in the humanities,” a phrase which, though clichéd, refers to real issues typically associated Read more >
Today, Hulu announced in a press release that it has ordered a new horror anthology series from writer and producer Mary Laws based on Nathan Ballingrud’s Shirley Jackson award-winning debut collection North American Lake Monsters, which came out from Kelly 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 >
Lisa Lucas talks Robert Caro and the injustices of NYC urban planning: “I was just absolutely shaken by the clear interest in justice that Bob Caro had, and the loving, tender, thoughtful regard in which he described the people that Read more >
Children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown was born on this day in 1910. Even if you don’t know her name, you’re probably familiar with her beloved Goodnight Moon. (Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere—yup, that’s the one!) She published Read more >
Judith Kerr, author of beloved children’s books including The Tiger Who Came To Tea and the Mog series, has died at 95, her publisher HarperCollins confirmed. Kerr fled Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee with her family in 1933 and Read more >
The announcement on Tuesday that Jokha Alharthi and her translator Marilyn Booth received this year’s Man Booker International Prize for Celestial Bodies brought smiles to many people’s faces, and for good reason. Celestial Bodies is the first novel written by an Omani Read more >
As if to prove once and for all that she does not actually require you to throw away all your books, people, so put down your pitchforks, Marie Kondo is herself writing another one. Her next project will be a Read more >
Yesterday, we got excited by this billboard in London’s Leicester Square, which seemed to hint that, at long last, Hilary Mantel’s beloved Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which began with Wolf Hall, might be coming to a conclusion. This morning, HarperCollins confirmed Read more >
Donald Trump, Jr., a man who may or may not be subject to a witch’s curse, has sold a book. As you probably don’t recall, because every day is approximately 27 years long, Trump was shopping the book last year Read more >
Just minutes ago in a ceremony at London’s Roundhouse, Celestial Bodies, written by Jokha Alharthi and translated by Marilyn Booth, was announced as the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize (which is worth a whopping £50,000!). The win makes Alharthi Read more >
You guys, you guys: beloved RuPaul’s Drag Race alums and hosts of UNHhhh Katya Zamolodchikova and Trixie Mattel have sold a book to Plume. According to Publishers Marketplace, it will be “a satirical advice book styled as a mid-century homemaking Read more >
The name Jacob Rees-Mogg might not mean a lot to most Americans, hypnotized as they are by the orange glow of their own garbage fire, but alongside former London mayor Boris Johnson and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, the ludicrously Read more >
A 2003 cartoon by Gary Cangemi suggests that abortion kills geniuses, geniuses are male, and women are their vessels. In a special issue of his strip Umbert the Unborn entitled “The Greatest Moments in Unborn History,” a fetal Thomas Edison Read more >
If this person can return their overdue library book, so can you: last week, someone brought a copy of The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson back to a library in Ireland more than 80 years after it was checked Read more >
Last night, on his blog, George R. R. Martin wrote a little bit about the journey that was HBO’s Game of Thrones, thanking those who worked on the show and dipping a little bit into what’s next—including what’s next for 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 >
