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 >
Oh poets, why must you always be so… poety. The year was 1810 and the poet in question was a dreamy 22-year-old Lord Byron, who was taking a “world” tour on the heels of his first success back home in Read more >
Young Gen Xers and old Millenials are rejoicing on Twitter as Liz Phair just announced (late last night) that her memoir, Horror Stories, now has a cover and pub date (October 8). This is very important news to a *particular Read more >
I was in the Strand the other day, overstimulated and sort of bumping against tables and people and unable to focus on any one book, possibly because they were all breathtaking, unflinching, searingly witty-yet-emotionally penetrating tours de force, each written Read more >
According to The New York Times, Woody Allen has been shopping a memoir around to publishing houses—but turns out they have some morals after all, because no one’s biting. In fact, he’s so “toxic” that some of them wouldn’t even read Read more >
Yes, it’s true. When Edna St. Vincent Millay went on vacation to Sanibel Island, Florida, on this day in 1936, she naturally brought her manuscript-in-progress—years in the making—along with her. She had her luggage sent up to her room and Read more >
