With full force, a new season has arrived. Spring, elusive as ever, has molted completely into a preview of the summer that awaits, and all that it will hold: soft serve ice creams, quests to enter any pool on offer, Read more >
You may know him as Vizzini, the self-identified brains behind Princess Buttercup’s thwarted kidnapping. Or as Mr. Hall, the sexually frustrated Debate teacher who brings out the best in another blonde 90s icon. Younger fans may see him as Blair Read more >
Today, the DAG Foundation announced the seven finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, which grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.” The prize, now in its second year, is given by Read more >
Today in a ceremony at Swansea, Decatur-based American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney was announced as the winner of this year’s £20,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, which celebrates literary talent in writers under 40, for her debut collection Joy is My Read more >
Happy upfront week, to all who celebrate. And it’s an especially happy one for Steinbeck fans. Yesterday, the trailer for Netflix’s East of Eden mini-series landed, and judging from the looks served, there is much to celebrate and discuss. Following Read more >
Last week was fiction heavy, and today we have a slew of the other side of the coin: many nonfiction riches await. Isaac Fitzerald’s study of Johnny Appleseed is available, as well as Barry Walter’s comprehensive survey of LGBTQ music Read more >
On a recent episode of Anne-Helen Peterson’s Culture Study podcast, the author Xochitl Gonzalez waxed nostalgic for the end of the Bush years. Working in New York at the time, the author of Last Night in Brooklyn recalled edgy fun in Read more >
This week, Poets & Writers awarded their annual Jackson Poetry Prize, which “recognizes an American poet of exceptional talent,” and comes with a purse of $100,000, to Chicago-born poet Marianne Boruch. This year’s judges were Major Jackson, Cole Swensen, and Afaa Michael Read more >
Here’s a fun fact to celebrate Angela Carter’s birthday: the beloved feminist icon did not care for literary tote saint Joan Didion. Need some proof? In 1986, Angela Carter sat down for a phone interview with Rosemary Carroll for BOMB. Read more >
Yesterday, workers at the University of Chicago Press announced a plan to unionize. As Publishers Weekly reported, the UCP Workers Guild would be the first union in the nonprofit publisher’s 130-year history. But they wouldn’t be lonely, in this timeline. Read more >
Who is Peter Thiel, really? Maverick, or monster? Little is known about the eccentric billionaire manipulating our world from assorted bunkers, but what we can say for sure is that the man was once a boy. And as some of Read more >
As a rule, the first Tuesday of the month will usually bring great tidings of books: this sunny day in May is no different. We have many bright, sparkling new works of fiction today: Booker Prize-winner Douglas Stuart’s new novel, Read more >
The winners and nominated finalists of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club. Read more >
Happy Friday, readers! Here at Lit Hub, we’re still catching joy where we can nab it. With apologies for a weekend off here and there, we’re back to report on the sweet things that are making us smile. Calvin Kasulke Read more >
This weekend, the Park Avenue Armory plays host to the New York Antiquarian Book Fair—i.e., Mecca, for a certain type of bibliophile. At the press preview, I’m conspicuously underdressed, having (lazily) assumed bowties and sweater-vests would rule the day in this Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
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