Joy Harjo has been named the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, becoming the first Native American, and the first Oklahoman, to hold the position. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and lives in Tulsa. She is the author Read more >
Since 1936, the Carnegie medal has celebrated excellence in children’s literature. Past recipients include the likes of C.S. Lewis and Neil Gaiman. And now, for the first time in 83 years, a writer of color has won the UK’s most 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 >
Do you love short stories? Reading ’em, writing ’em, defending ’em against those who would dare dismiss them as a lesser literary form. You do? Well, good news! It would appear that you are very much not alone. It’s been Read more >
The 1,800-mile Poetry to the People Tour is off to a rollicking start, giving out books to underserved communities between Brooklyn and New Orleans via House of SpeakEasy‘s mobile book truck. After a late-night packing party at Pioneer Works on Read more >
You may have thought the games were over—and well, they are. But today, Scholastic announced that next year, they will publish a prequel to Suzanne Collins’ mega-bestselling Hunger Games series, set 64 years before the events of the first book 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 >
Congratulations to Ling Ma, whose 2018 dystopian novel, Severance, took home the 2019 Young Lions Fiction Award at a ceremony at the New York Public Library last night. Established in 2001, the award is a $10,000 prize given each spring to Read more >
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is postponing the publication of Naomi Wolf’s book Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, several weeks after Wolf discovered during an interview with the BBC’s Matthew Sweet that she had misinterpreted some of the foundational 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 >
Over at Variety, Neil Gaiman has opened the door to his office, which he uses as one of his two main writing spaces (the other is a gazebo in the middle of the woods, naturally). He goes there when he Read more >
Nicholas Sparks, the bestselling author of a lot of books about white women falling in love with white men, apparently tried to ban an LGBT club (or, in his words, “gay club”) at the Epiphany School, a Christian academy he Read more >
On March 9, 1997, Christopher Wallace—aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G., a man who still holds a claim on the title of greatest rapper of all-time—was shot and killed on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue, in Read more >
Apart from the fact of trying to figure out if Chelsea Girls is a novel or a memoir or a collection of stories (or whether it’s really even a book at all) I think I mainly want to tell you Read more >
For all the good that it’s done, the New York Times sometimes makes decisions that stoke the anger or disappointment of its readers. The announcement on Monday that the Times‘s international edition will no longer publish daily political cartoons, thus cutting ties with Read more >
Emily Ruskovich has won the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award (formerly known as the IMPAC) for her novel Idaho. The award comes with €100,000, making it world’s largest prize for a single novel published in English. The books on the longlist Read more >
Journalist David Neiwert said Tuesday that Twitter has suspended his account for displaying a cover image from his book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, which Verso Books published in 2017. Here’s the image: Read more >
Today, Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington released the first photo from the set of Little Fires Everywhere, their adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling novel, which will premiere on Hulu in 2020—and I have to say that the looks are 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 >
Natasha Tynes, whose book distribution deal was canceled after she posted, then quickly deleted, a tweet shaming a black D.C. metro employee for eating on the train, is suing her publisher for $13 million. The complaint states that Rare Bird Read more >
