Big congratulations to novelist Ruchika Tomar, author of A Prayer For Travelers and winner of the $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! This year’s judges were R.O. Kwon, Terese Marie Mailhot, and David L. Ulin. Of their choice, they said: Tomar Read more >
More and more public libraries are temporarily closing shop across the country to limit the spread of coronavirus, but their Wi-Fi can still be a valuable resource for communities, the American Library Association said Monday. Libraries that close should leave Read more >
Bookstores are very close to our hearts here at Lit Hub. By now we all know how devastating this pandemic is going to be for independently owned businesses of all kinds, as federal help inevitably trickles first to corporations (despite Read more >
Good news for fans of layered, literary, female-led dramedies: SMILF creator Frankie Shaw is set to direct a feature film adaptation of T Kira Madden’s acclaimed 2019 memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. “T Kira’s story is a Read more >
For all those Concerned Citizens who have been up at night worrying about The Censorship of Woody Allen—yes folks, they’re out there, I get emails—take heart: Allen’s memoir, dropped earlier this month by Grand Central after employees walked out en Read more >
“Lena Dunham is writing a novel” would be a thoroughly unsurprising (if ill-timed) announcement. But “Lena Dunham is writing a serialized, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style novel” is slightly more interesting! According to Vogue, which will publish the daily installments, the project is “in Read more >
This week, actor Michael Gaston started #readasonnet, challenging his friends and colleagues directly to share sonnets with the world. Now actors are performing sonnets (and not just by William Shakespeare) in their homes and putting them online to soothe us Read more >
As a result of the spread of COVID-19, every responsible person in this country (and honestly, in the world) should be practicing serious social distancing right now. It’s not easy, of course—but it’s a little easier when you know you Read more >
This year’s female-dominated Windham-Campbell Prize recipients illustrate the richness of literature’s diversity and depth among authors whose work explores urgent topics across identity, culture, power, and class. In poetry, British-Indian poet Bhanu Kapil is known for exploring questions of trauma, Read more >
In a strange but delightful turn of events, actress Jennifer Ehle, beloved for her turn as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice series, was spotted reading from the opening of the novel on Instagram live. Omg, Jennifer Ehle has Read more >
There is some truly wonderful news coming out of New York City this afternoon. The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world’s leading institutions to document African American history and culture, has Read more >
In my pre-pandemic life, I rolled my eyes at the franchising of absolutely everything (except, of course, The Fast and the Furious, because you can’t argue with entertainment). Now, though, I’m finding comfort in familiar universes. Is this a flimsy Read more >
Are you desperately searching for proof that there is, in fact, still goodness in this crazy, mixed-up, pandemic-cowed world? You are? Well then, might I direct your attention to this Chicago neighborhood street corner? Seen in my Chicago neighborhood. Sign Read more >
Today, The Paris Review launched a new way to make good use of some of that extra alone time: by browsing the Author Index, which is exactly what it sounds like. They call it “a comprehensive resource featuring every author Read more >
We’re on the lookout for Nice Things at the moment, and “beloved chefs helping you make the most of your socially distanced pantry” is the perfect combination of heartwarming and actually useful. While the grocery stores in my neighborhood remain Read more >
Bookshop.org, an alternative to Amazon that shares proceeds from book sales with independent bookstores, will give more money to those stores in response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on small businesses. Bookshop announced today that it would increase Read more >
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