Swansea University just announced the longlist for this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize. Since 2006, this prestigious award has been celebrating young writers. The £30,000 purse (that’s $39,191.85, or 2,799 Sweetgreen salads, friends) is awarded to the best published literary Read more >
On Wednesday, more than 160 writers, academics, and civil liberties organizations signed an open letter addressed to the president of Babson College weeks after the firing of Asheen Phansey, the college’s former Director of Sustainability, who was dismissed earlier this month Read more >
There’s a new trailer for the highly anticipated film adaptation of Joan Didion’s 1996 novel The Last Thing He Wanted, starring Anne Hathaway as a Wants-to-Do-Right reporter who, in the course of investigating a story, becomes entangled in an international Read more >
The smoke has been spotted at the corner of Broadway and 56th Street, and Reagan Arthur has been announced as the new publisher of Knopf. Amazingly, Arthur is only the fourth person to helm one of the most important publishing Read more >
Have you ever dreamed of becoming an antiquarian bookseller? Or just wanted to get to know one better? Or maybe you just like old books a lot. Either way, this is the documentary for you. Directed by D.W. Young and Read more >
For a long time, Sandra Cisneros resisted the idea of having her much-loved 1983 classic, The House on Mango Street, adapted for the screen. But the Chicago-born author changed her mind, according to Deadline, because of renewed attention on Latinx immigration narratives Read more >
The Paris Review Foundation has announced the appointment of bestselling novelist Mona Simpson as the venerable magazine’s new publisher. As today’s press release details, Simpson—the author of six novels and the recipient of numerous literary accolades including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Read more >
Yesterday, MovieMaker published an oral history of the film adaption of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (a book that Roger Rosenblatt described, in his review in The New York Times, as “the journal Dorian Gray would have written had he been a Read more >
Today, Jeanine Cummins appeared at Winter Institute in Baltimore, and as Michael Cader reports for Publishers Lunch, commented on the ongoing controversy over her new novel, American Dirt. Bookseller Javier Ramirez, who introduced Cummins, brought up the topic at the Read more >
Though we can’t know what our world will look like a year from now, at least one thing will be true: The Great Gatsby’s copyright will expire at the end of 2020, officially inducting F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age classic into the Read more >
As you may have noticed if you’re a person who follows Literary Twitter in any fashion, online controversy over Jeanine Cummins’ new novel American Dirt exploded over the weekend. If you aren’t, or if you were engaging in a digital Read more >
Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this Read more >
Can you imagine running a corporate Twitter account and publicly asking Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh not to swear? If you can, maybe you are “Sara” from @ShellEnergy. As people often now do when faced with the infuriatingly scripted, labyrinthine misinformation Read more >
According to The Guardian, Lee Child, whose popular Jack Reacher books (and by popular, I mean over 100 million books sold in 49 languages across 101 territories) are soon to become an Amazon series, is quitting his most famous character. Read more >
Canadian independent publisher (and bookstore!) Biblioasis has printed up a limited run of indie bookseller trading cards, featuring heroic comic book portraits of prominent booksellers. Why? Well, for starters, this week is the annual independent booksellers conference in Baltimore, the Read more >
As you, devoted reader of The Hub, might recall, just before the holidays we were gifted this teaser trailer for the TV adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng’s bestselling novel (her claim to flame, if you will) is about Read more >
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