Look, I love hockey. I haven’t lived in Canada in 20 years, and being an ex-pat has probably made my fandom more acute, rather than less. So if I’m making fun of hockey people and their reading habits, please know Read more >
As you may know, Dublin is full of James Joyce-related attractions and pilgrimage points; one of the most interesting of these is a Georgian townhouse often called “The House of the Dead.” This, of course, is the place where James Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
It’s a good time to be a Kurt Vonnegut fan. While there’s never a bad month to dust off your banned book collection, November encapsulates all things Vonnegutian: the 50th anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five, the grand opening of the permanent Kurt Read more >
Today, Vogue announced the theme for 2020’s milestone Met Gala (and exhibition I guess, though that’s definitely second tier at this point, sorry): “About Time: Fashion and Duration.” According to curator Andrew Bolton, that will mean “a reimagining of fashion Read more >
Last night, Kendall Jenner posted an Instagram story of her TBR pile, and while “literate celebrity” has emerged as a robust subgenre of celebrity in the past few years, we were still impressed by her choices. We’ve come to expect Read more >
Argentine author and journalist Mariana Enríquez has won this year’s Herralde Prize, a Spanish-language award given annually by the Barcelona-based publisher Anagrama. The award comes with a cash prize of €18,000. Enríquez’s novel, Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), is a Read more >
This morning, Oprah announced her latest book club pick: Elizabeth Strout’s Olive, Again, her recent follow-up to her Pulitzer prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. “I love [Olive] because she’s so 100% authentically herself,” Winfrey said. “She always says the things that we are always Read more >
Tori Amos—synesthete musical prodigy, RAINN activist, and one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of the 1990s (easily the greatest musical decade)—is releasing a new, politically-themed memoir entitled Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage. The book, Amos’ first since her Read more >
The bullpen of the 1993 San Diego Padres Citrus County Commission (pictured above) has denied funding to county libraries for digital subscriptions to the New York Times. Led by left-handed middle-reliever area man Scott Carnahan, the commission (comprised of Scott, Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
It has been heard around the Lit Hub offices that the true “literary hubs” of any given community are in fact, its bookstores*, places that foster conversation about ideas, politics, culture, and community. So it was with great pleasure I Read more >
Here’s a cursed lede: if you have an extra $530, you can buy a Stella McCartney x Jonathan Safran Foer “We Are the Weather” tee shirt from Saks Fifth Avenue! It is 100% cotton, and, according to Saks’ website, dry Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
I have no idea how one goes about adapting a poetry collection into a TV series, but it looks like I’ll find out soon—AMC Studios is creating an Afrofuturistic anthology series based on Eve L. Ewing’s debut collection Electric Arches. Read more >
When Mary Shelley first unleashed Frankenstein on the world, just over 200 years ago, it was met with a few pretty mixed reviews. (With the exception of this glowing rave from her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, who had anticipated Read more >
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