Exclusive: the Literary Arts Emergency Fund, launched and administered by the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazine & Presses, and the National Book Foundation, has announced that it will distribute $3.5 million in emergency funding to 282 Read more >
List-making: it used to be so simple. Now, just noting that a number of museums are opening to visitors in New York City—where they’ve been closed since the coronavirus shut down the entire world—requires some explanation and a light understanding Read more >
Today, the Rona Jaffe Foundation announced their six 2020 Writers’ Awards recipients. The award, which comes with a $30,000 grant, was created to distinguish and support emerging women writers of promise in the early stages of their writing careers. Previous Read more >
While we here at Lit Hub wholeheartedly believe that every season is the right season to curl up with a good book, there’s just something about the fall! Hot coffee, cozy sweaters, decorative gourds, vanilla candles. It’s a #bookstagram dream. Read more >
Even though it feels like it’s been out for weeks, today is the actual pub day of Bob Woodward’s Rage, which has garnered MUCH attention for its all-you-can-eat buffet of pre-pub scoops, not to mention the subsequent anger about apparently Read more >
As I recently discovered, if you google “tattoos in literature,” the overwhelming majority of results will be photo listicles of tattoos inspired by works of literature, which is not what I asked for, Larry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not Read more >
From a longlist dominated by debuts comes a shortlist dominated by debuts—four out of six!—but the biggest surprise might be the fact that Hilary Mantel will not, after all, be getting that three-peat. Less surprising is the fact that after Read more >
Three cheers for more exciting book news! Today, the Before Columbus Foundation announced the winners of the 41st-annual American Book Awards. The award, which has no categories or nominees, was created to recognize extraordinary literary achievement from the entire spectrum Read more >
Today, the organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced that Margaret Atwood will receive the 2020 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, named in honor of the eponymous U.S. diplomat. The prize comes with a Michael Bashaw sculpture Read more >
HBO’s Lovecraft Country is a strange and unexpected television experience, rife with arcane allusions, uncanny twists, and a wonderfully anachronistic soundtrack. I’ve never been much of a supernatural horror fan but I am as engrossed by the series as I Read more >
Today, the longlist for France’s annual Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine (American Literature Grand Prize), was announced. Here’s the list, which is pretty good, though one title seems a little surprising. Are the French paying attention? Perhaps they’re too busy Read more >
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your eyes. I have wonderful news to bring you on this Friday. The Latin phrase “e pluribus unum” which translates to “out of many, one” and which is the official motto of the United States Read more >
Are you as pleased as I am that Will Smith and Aunt Viv (Janet Hubert) seemed to have made up after decades of mutual shade? Just in time for the 30-year anniversary of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’s first episode. There Read more >
The shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award, one of the most prestigious (and richest) awards given to a single short story in the UK, was announced today on BBC Radio 4. “I am inordinately proud of this year’s Read more >
It’s Friday! What’s George R.R. Martin up to? Not building a castle, that’s for sure. Santa Fe city officials responded this week to his proposal to build one in his backyard—his second request to do so!—with an unequivocal “no,” with Read more >
That’s right. HarperCollins is suing Lindsay Lohan for breach of contract after she failed to deliver a manuscript for the memoir they acquired from her back in 2014. The publishing company is asking for their $365,000 back—ostensibly the first third Read more >
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