Fellow procrastinators rejoice: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced earlier this week that the city’s library system would stop charging late fees, making it the largest city in the country to do so. Now, books that have been checked out will Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced its 2019 grantees of the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants, which aims to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard.” Each of the eight winners will be awarded $40,000 to support Read more >
An unwitting participant on The Truman Show, a man bestowed with all of Morgan Freeman’s godly powers, the Grinch, and now… novelist? Everyone’s favorite Canadian-American actor is putting on a different Mask and writing a book. Memoirs and Misinformation is going to Read more >
The 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, partnered with Cambridge University, has just announced that this year’s winner is Welsh writer Jo Lloyd for the story “The Invisible,” inspired by the life of an 18th-century woman from Carnarvonshire who claimed Read more >
More of this, please. The Believer has a brand new interactive comic feature up today by Sydney-born artist Matt Huynh “about growing up in a community of Vietnam War refugees resettled in Australia’s heroin capital.” It’s a beautiful and engaging 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 >
Literary gambling enthusiasts of the world, rejoice! Your chances of guessing the winner of the most prestigious prize in letters have, for one year only, doubled. Yes, as we all know by now, because of the Swedish Academy’s decision earlier Read more >
The shortlist for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize was just announced. For the past 26 years, the Giller Prize has been celebrating Canadian fiction writers. They award the largest purse for literature in the country, a whopping $25,000 cash prize! Read more >
Yes, folks, it’s true: a full 15 years after Susanna Clarke’s beloved 1,000-page, best-selling debut, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, (set in an alternative 19th century England in which magic exists (again)), she’s announced her second novel: Piranesi, which will be Read more >
Obviously there is. Noted international landlord and Saudi money-launderer WeWork—as tumultuously run and absurd a company as ever companied—is going to get the full investigative book treatment, according to Axios. Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell will 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 >
PEN America has released a Campus Free Speech Guide aimed at helping students and educators navigate free speech-related conflicts and controversies on campus. The guide was in part a response to requests from educators who were eager for clear guidance, PEN America Read more >
Lit Hub is excited to announce the shortlist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. This year’s judging panel included Tommy Orange, Emma Straub, Monique Truong, Maaza Mengiste, and Claire Messud. They are: De’Shawn Charles Winslow, In West Read more >
According to Variety, Andrew Scott, better known as “the hot priest” (though I still think of him as the Best Moriarty), has signed on to play the lead in a new Showtime series based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels. Ripley will Read more >
Today, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell announced his next project: Utopia Avenue, which will be first full-length novel since 2014’s The Bone Clocks. (I suppose he has some time now that he’s done writing The Matrix 4.) Mitchell said in Read more >
Heads up: “You didn’t read that” is the new “You didn’t eat that,” because food and books are both good and life-sustaining things that look nice in Instagram pictures. Or something. Kourtney Kardashian posted a picture of herself reading Emma Read more >
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