Because of course Gwyneth Paltrow has a “book curator,” a title that sounds both utterly pretentious (that would be the “curator”) and reeeeeeeally stupid, which is the sweet spot of Extreme Wealth Culture. (Shoutout Town & Country!) And as is Read more >
Are you super sick of the news? So is NPR! It published a list, based on votes from more than 7,000 people, of the funniest books as selected by readers, hopefully some of which can help us all counter a Read more >
Well this is a happy Hollywood mad lib: HBO Max has announced that Meryl Streep will star in Steven Soderbergh’s next project, Let Them All Talk, a lit-world cruise drama (please let this become a niche genre) written by the 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 >
Celebrated British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing has been widely praised for her decision to split her James Tate Black award winnings with her fellow shortlisted authors. “I said in Crudo that competition has no place in art and Read more >
The winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards—one of science fiction and fantasy’s most prestigious awards, decided by the popular vote of Worldcon members—were presented last night at a ceremony at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland. Congratulations Read more >
The great thing about editing a website is that even though you tell yourself you have a pretty good idea of what’s going to do well, you are very often wrong. In that spirit of confusion and happy accident, here 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 >
Every so often, we get a bit of the future that looks more like the hoverboards we were promised and less like the nightmare Octavia Butler predicted. Such is the case with the news that Chinese search engine Sogou is using Read more >
Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” The ten books below are the ones our readers searched for most this week—including Sarah M. Broom’s family memoir, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, and Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht’s Read more >
This afternoon, on Facebook, President Barack Obama posted one of his periodic reading lists, updating us all on the books—new and old—that he’s been reading and enjoying this summer. His list, in full, is below: It’s August, so I wanted Read more >
Abruptly-shuttered Pacific Standard is, in its final breaths, recommending some fall reading material in a list from contributing editor Maris Kreizman along with other contributors to the magazine. Senior editor Ted Scheinman writes, “While Pacific Standard won’t be around in the Read more >
We used to think of id-bearing moments like this as the mask slipping off, but when acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli suggested yesterday that Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”—as much a part of American Read more >
Today, Variety reported that Netflix has won the rights to Pyros, a science-fiction story based on Thomas Pierce’s flash fiction piece “Tardy Man,” which appeared in the New Yorker last August. Reese Witherspoon, the Savior of All Literature herself, is attached 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 >
At my elementary school, we had something called Silent Sustained Reading (SSR), a time during which we all sat around the classroom reading whatever books we wanted in a silent and sustained manner. It turns out, you can recreate the Read more >
