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Hi. We’ve redesigned Lit Hub, launched a blog, and added a podcast network.

Hi. If you’re a semi-regular visitor to Lit Hub dot com first of all thank you—but also, you may have noticed we’ve changed a few things today; for example, this is a blog post, located on our new blog, The Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

New Books Tuesday: Your weekly guide to what's publishing today, fiction and nonfiction.

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 >

By Emily Temple

William Faulkner's grudging, misogynistic fan letter to Anita Loos

In 1925, when Anita Loos (born on this day in 1889) published Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady, it was an instant best-seller—in fact, in 1926, it was the second-best-selling book of the entire year (unlike, Read more >

By Emily Temple

VIDEO: Rebecca Solnit on writing a liberated Cinderella

Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator, her retelling of the classic fairytale for today’s kids, shows a new version of the story in which “nobody gets married, nobody becomes a princess, the prince needs liberation too.” Her goal was to portray “a really Read more >

By Literary Hub

The conference bringing critics of color together: Jack Jones' Culture, Too

If you don’t know about Jack Jones Literary Arts, founded by Kima Jones in 2015, you’ll probably at least recognize some of its clientele: Naomi Jackson, Tyehimba Jess, Angie Thomas, Tananarive Due, and Donald Quist, among others. Through personalized publicity campaigns Read more >

By Aaron Robertson