Everyone knows that there are five Bennet sisters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia. But what would happen if Jane Austen’s Longbourn estate were full of Marys, the Bennets’ most boring and tedious daughter, instead of just one? A Read more >
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2023.” Here are Read more >
It’s been a confusing few days at the Philadelphia Free Library, with their entire Author Events programming staff resigning, before being abruptly fired, all of which set off a string of confusing announcements about future programs. The Author Events program Read more >
Do you find yourself in the querying spirit this spring? Or have you, perhaps, a burning question for a literary icon? If yes or yes, consider checking out the second annual auction hosted by Literary Agents of Change, a nonprofit Read more >
Image from richardscarry.com Today would have been Richard Scarry’s 105th birthday, and it got me thinking about Busytown, the world created by Scarry and explored in dozens of books. Scarry’s busy world is populated with animals doing the work of Read more >
Last week, Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy. The “nonprofit trade association” was founded by the author and editor Vivian L. Stephens in 1980, and had at its height close to 10,000 members. According to Publishers Weekly, RWA is Read more >
There are as many ways to mark your place in a book as there are opinions about it. The memes and the Dungeons and Dragons alignment charts are fun, but it’s time to get serious and once and for all Read more >
It’s the first Tuesday in June, which means that summer and Pride Month are here, and, to inaugurate both, there’s a bevy of books hot off the proverbial presses to check out. Below, you’ll find no less than twenty-six new Read more >
Image via Wikimedia and KPBS Online Kafkologists rejoice, a new movie about the final, romance-filled year of the writer’s life is headed for theaters across the world. The Glory of Life is a German-language film based on Michael Kumpfmüller’s novel Read more >
For the Outdoor Adventurer: The hiker, the camper, the thrill-seeker. You have a Nalgene bottle covered in stickers and know the difference between all the different water-sport paddles. You’re always on the move, seeking deeper, more impenetrable areas of wilderness Read more >
In more troubling news for human writers, OpenAI announced deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic this Wednesday. In a statement on their site, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson framed the “partnership” as mutually beneficial. By positioning The Atlantic as a Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
Faced with the German media’s failure to inform, and the subsequent silence surrounding the horrific death tolls of so many innocent victims, we want to speak aloud: our frustration, our outrage, our grief … and those children’s names! Tomorrow, Read more >
June, joyfully, is here, bringing with it the official start of summer and Pride month—two grand things in my book. And, speaking of books, it’s a new month, which means there’s a whole new set of exciting ones to look Read more >
I spent a few days in DC over the long weekend for a wedding. Walking around leafy and well-appointed Capital Hill, I overheard a conversation between two older folks, as their dogs warily sniffed each other, about how people were Read more >
Oh, Jay Gatsby. That rascal of yore, that West Egg striver. His story has haunted the Great American canon for just-about-a hundred years. And Fitzgerald’s classic seems, to me, to be in its own class when it comes to spawning Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single Read more >
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, Read more >
If you’re reading Lit Hub, it’s a fair guess that you have fond memories of school reading challenges over summer break, those individual and classroom-wide challenges to log your summer’s reading, show off, and maybe earn a prize in September. Read more >
I haven’t stopped thinking about I Saw the TV Glow, the new A24 film from writer/director Jane Schoenbrun, since seeing it over the weekend. It’s one of the best movies of the year (I scream-cried in the car on the Read more >
