On June 1st, a group of book publishers—Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, all member companies of the Association of American Publishers—filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Internet Archive, whose “National Emergency Read more >
For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has been celebrating LGBTQ literature. This vital organization has been an advocate and support system for LGBTQ writers, their communities, and their stories. In lieu of an in-person ceremony, Lambda Literary will be hosting Read more >
Whitmaniacs and cruciverbalists, assemble! If both those words made sense to you, then you are definitely the specific kind of nerd for this blog post. Adrienne Raphel, poet and author of Thinking Inside the Box, created a Whitman-themed crossword puzzle Read more >
Did you know that Eudora Welty was probably a better gardener than you? It’s true. In addition to being a fantastic photographer and storyteller, Welty was known for her green thumb. The revamped website of the Eudora Welty House and Garden opens Read more >
First of all, I didn’t even know there was going to be a big studio Dungeons & Dragons movie; second of all, the reason this is bookish news is because of the crazy and endless spinoff novels based in the Read more >
It’s the kind of timing a publisher dreams of. Less than one week out from its U.S. launch, latest Irish literary phenom Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times (Ecco, June 2) has been optioned for TV. Yes, following a hugely successful Read more >
Views are up 200 percent for the Book Marks’ book page of Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist. As America repeats its cycles of racist state violence in Minneapolis this is indeed a book we should all read Read more >
The latest live event to shift its plans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: the National Book Festival. Organizers announced Thursday that the festival, which was originally set to take place Aug. 29 at the Washington Convention Center will Read more >
Here’s something I think about all the time: in 2013, Maya Rudolph played Maya Angelou in a skit on Saturday Night Live. It might be my favorite skit ever? First, there’s the fact that SNL even aired a skit that Read more >
Most of what I learned in elementary school history classes was the history of the state of Illinois. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and I guess the reasoning behind the curriculum was that it would be more Read more >
The announcement of a forthcoming Amazon series focusing on Lisbeth Salander, the protagonist of Steig Larsson’s Millennium series, challenges our assumptions about what a literary adaptation actually is. We know that the Amazon show is currently titled The Girl With the Read more >
“The dog ate my homework” is, perhaps, the oldest excuse in the book. But it really happened to John Steinbeck! His dog, Toby, apparently ate half of the first manuscript of Of Mice and Men. On this very day, May Read more >
Dracula lay undisturbed and unadapted for twenty-five years after its publication in 1897, before waking up as Nosferatu and dawning perhaps the greatest cultural juggernaut of the century. When F. W. Murnau’s film Nosferatu was released in 1922, Bram Stoker, Read more >
Back at the Literary Hub office, we would get a dozen donuts whenever we were feeling down, or had something to celebrate, or if we were just hungry. Basically, what I’m saying is: we were always eating donuts. I miss Read more >
Edith Wharton’s first published short story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” was accepted on this day one hundred and twenty-nine years ago, in the year of our lord 1891, by the clever folks at Scribner’s magazine. I sat down to read the tale Read more >
Lockdown Lit @ Lunch with Mary South and Erin Somers Tuesday, May 26, 2pm EDT Lockdown Lit @ Lunch, a new weekly salon that spotlights books published during the coronavirus pandemic, hosts Mary South (You Will Never Be Forgotten) and Read more >
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