Our office can’t stop laughing at this: writer John Hornor Jacobs tweeted Wednesday morning that a parody cover he designed for The Bell Jar had appeared on a Kindle edition of the book, flagged by Aidan Hanratty (using the Twitter Read more >
It’s Thomas Pynchon’s 82nd birthday! For those of you who maybe got to page 20 of Gravity’s Rainbow and gave up, I am here to help. Thomas Pynchon is terrific but you have to walk through the savannah before wading Read more >
Only a few months before Maurice Sendak’s death seven years ago, Stephen Colbert visited his home to interview him for the Colbert Report (remember when it was hilarious to pretend to be a conservative?). In the clip, Colbert asks Sendak about Read more >
You’ve only got five more days to catch Grief is The Thing With Feathers, the Cillian Murphy-starring stage adaptation of Max Porter’s devastating 2016 novella (which tells the story of a poetry scholar, adrift after his wife’s sudden death, who, together with Read more >
Per Romper, Ann Patchett, notable writer of novels and memoirs for grown people, has written a children’s book called Lambslide. Although I am not a child, or even a person with a child, there are many things I like about Read more >
Yesterday we published a chapter from Nam Le’s short critical look at the oeuvre of Australian writer David Malouf, which is part of the Writers on Writers series. The excerpt in question was titled “What is an Australian National Literature Read more >
In 1985, the legendary Angela Carter sat down for an interview with Lisa Appignanesi. In the video below, they discuss Freud, work, politics, The Bloody Chamber, motherhood, and de Sade, among other things—including Carter’s socialism, which she argues works in Read more >
If you pay any attention to literary Twitter you’ve likely seen writers gently pleading with anyone who will listen to please don’t tag me on reviews, especially negative ones, which makes a lot of sense. Personally, I hate criticism, which Read more >
When Filmstruck announced, back in October 2018, that it would be shutting down, cinephiles everywhere were heartbroken: where would we go to experience the greatest collection of art-house and independent cinema from the comfort of our own homes? But just 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 >
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse was first published on May 5, 1927. Fun Facts: It was chosen by TIME as one of the best English-language novels since 1923… the beginning of TIME. And a few years ago, Margaret Atwood published a Read more >
We love teachers at Lit Hub. So in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, hear from 10 teachers about what brought them to the profession, the challenges of classroom life, and their work as writers: * After a student told her Read more >
Because Google’s recently released AI poem generator, PoemPortraits, wouldn’t let me mess around with words like “Winterfell” or “Night King,” I decided to make a poem using four words I don’t particularly like: scrunch, dank, smarmy, and orc. The idea Read more >
Australian writer Mandy Sayer has written an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald lamenting the loss of libraries as “hallowed sanctuaries of silence and solitude.” Sayer says she grew up poor, and that her 1970s childhood libraries were a Read more >
It’s that time of year again: the Met Gala, the fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute and Anna Wintour’s annual setup for every guest except Rihanna to fail. This year’s theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion, a nod to Susan 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 Read more >
Today, FSG shared the cover from André Aciman’s forthcoming Find Me, the sequel to his beloved Call Me By Your Name,” which was designed by Rodrigo Corral. Of the cover, Aciman said: “The colors of the buildings couldn’t have been Read more >
Just Kids—the National Book Award-winning memoir by beloved rock star, writer, and punk poet laureate of New York City, Patti Smith—has been crowned the One Book, One New York winner for 2019. “In the award-winning Just Kids, Smith offers a Read more >
“Buy a self-published children’s book” is admittedly not at the top of the list when it comes to ways to gain political influence, and yet that’s the emerging picture in Baltimore, where Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned yesterday after controversy from Read more >
New York Magazine reports that Billy McFarland, Fyre Festival scammer and former friend of Ja Rule, has written a memoir. McFarland is currently in prison (because of the scams), and sent the handwritten pages of the memoir (Promythus: The God Read more >
