As Lebanon continues to recover from the explosion in Beirut that killed more than 150 people and wounded thousands of others, a group of artists and writers are hosting an online event to raise money for those who are struggling. Read more >
Ah, the dog-eared days of summer. Here are 15 brand-new titles gracing us with their presence today. So what’re you waiting for? Grab your mask and head over to your favorite local indie. Then maybe get your picnic blanket and Read more >
If the sex scenes in Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel had just a little too much Bill Clinton in them for your taste, perhaps you’d be interested in reading her latest short story, “Breeze Point,” in which the paramours are pandas Read more >
This week, I stumbled upon some very good advice Kurt Vonnegut set out, in 1988, for the citizens of the world of 2088. Sure, it was part of a Volkswagen ad campaign for TIME, but it still counts as salient Read more >
Beloved NYC bookstore Bluestockings—long a fixture on the Lower East Side—has found a new home. This will come as a relief to downtown book-lovers who worried the iconic feminist bookstore was closing for good due to both pandemic woes and Read more >
This week, a reader broke the usual flow of publicity announcements and pitches in our general inbox to ask: Are we okay? “Increasingly a lot of the links I have selected in the past couple of weeks I find very Read more >
The much anticipated (by me, at least) adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers (SWOON), and directed by Ben Wheatley, now has a release date: October 21, 2020. Today, Read more >
Raven Leilani’s Luster, Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, and Jonathan C. Slaght’s Owls of the Eastern Ice all feature among Book Marks’ Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Fiction 1. Luster by Raven Leilani Read more >
Just days before it hits shelves, Diane Cook’s upcoming debut novel, The New Wilderness—about a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change—is getting one hell of a publicity boost. Deadline today reported that Warner Bros. Read more >
Yes. It’s a set of bookshelves that can convert into a coffin. And yes, it’s real. Sure, it sounds like some kind of morbid gag (that we’re all quite enjoying here in the virtual Lit Hub offices, aka Slack), but Read more >
Another day, another announcement of a memoir from a former Trump collaborator. This time, it’s Fiona Hill, an ex-advisor who testified in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, whose “views about the future of a polarized America” will be published by Houghton Mifflin Read more >
In early March, on one of the last nights before everything stopped, I went to see Medea at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was one of the final nights the show was in production, and the 834-seat theater was Read more >
The good news is that there’s a very strong chance someone in the Sweeney family walks away with £2,000 as winner of the 2020 Butler Literary Award, which goes to “the best first publication by an Irish writer in any Read more >
Phew. I know, you were all waiting on us, right? Especially you, Oprah. Oprah definitely cares what we think. Well, good news everybody: the official position of Literary Hub is that Oprah’s latest book club pick, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, is a Read more >
It happened in the fall of 1972. The Watergate scandal was in its infancy, Bobby Fischer had just defeated Boris Spassky in a Cold War chess match, and the inspirational political activist, philosopher, academic, and author Angela Davis had recently Read more >
Have you ever come to the end of another agreeably humorous “Shouts & Murmurs” column, risen from your porcelain throne, tossed the New Yorker issue back into the stack, flushed (perhaps not in this order…), and thought to yourself I wonder Read more >
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