Though books have been supplying the movie and tv industries with storylines since the dawn of the talkie, the rise of streaming content over the last five years has created a desperate need for more (MORE we scream as we Read more >
With robust programming already this year, 1455 (previously Virginia Center for Literary Arts, or VCLA) continues to establish the Shenandoah Valley as a hotbed of creativity and community. After the success of 1455’s monthly Author Series at Handley Library and Read more >
Katy Simpson Smith, Lit Hub contributor and the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men, has a new novel out in March next year; we Read more >
In more “thing becomes other thing” news, Sleeping Beauties, the more-than-700-page fantasy novel that Stephen King wrote with his son, Owen, is being adapted into a 10-part comic book series. The novel imagines a world in which all the women in Read more >
Sometimes the greatest secrets are right under our noses, in shuttered backrooms or buried beneath layers of decades-old junk. One researcher at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, has discovered a treasure likely to appeal to epistolary and classical fanatics Read more >
Last night, Variety reported that Lakeith Stanfield (also known as the actual best part of Atlanta, there I said it, don’t @ me) to star in a feature film adaptation of Kwame Onwuachi’s Notes From a Young Black Chef—which is 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 >
IFC has released the trailer for Vita and Virginia, tells the story of Virginia Woolf’s love affair with Vita Sackville-West (and if the trailer is any indication, their mutual love affair with headbands). Also featured: sexy smiles, greenhouse flirting, drowning foreshadowing, Read more >
The New Republic’s Emily Atkin left work early last Friday for a weekend in the woods of West Virginia, where she had no cell service. She had earned a vacation. After months of work, she and her colleagues were closing Read more >
In solidarity with the Amazon Strike—in which Amazon warehouse workers in a suburb of Minneapolis are striking to protest their terrible working conditions (unions of Amazon workers in Europe have staged strikes on Prime Days in the past, but the Read more >
Here’s a surprisingly low-stakes and silly story about a Christian publisher! The Massachusetts-based, pragmatically-named Christian book distributor, Christian Book Distributors, had to change its name to Christianbook due to all the calls it was getting from people looking for CBD, Read more >
It must be a great feeling to write an authoritative book on a compelling subject and have it discussed on a substantial national platform. Not so great: when those people fail to name either you or the title of your Read more >
Aquarius (January 20-February 18) Audre Lorde Obviously, Audre Lorde is the definition of an Aquarius. Just take a look at this bold and brilliant essay from 1985 on police brutality, Apartheid, and harnessing our power. Pisces (February 19-March 20) Gabriel García Read more >
Semicolon—a vibrant new bookstore, community space, and gallery for Chicago’s street art scene—opened its doors on Tuesday with a party and mural unveiling. The store is “just one of a handful of woman-owned bookstores in Chicago and currently its only 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 >
Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” How It Works: Every day, our staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. Each Read more >
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