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Exclusive annoucement: Here's the shortlist for 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award

Lit Hub is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award. The American Library in Paris was established in 1920 with a core collection of books and periodicals donated by American libraries to United Read more >

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20,000 Dublin Marathon finishers will receive this W. B. Yeats medal, complete with fake quote.

Poor old W. B. Yeats; if they’re not burying the bones of club-footed frenchmen in his grave or making fun of his penchant for monkey gland viagra, they’re attributing fake inspirational quotes to him. Every so often, particularly if you’re Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Exclusive: See the cover for Ananda Lima's CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ananda Lima’s CRAFT: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, “an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut,” which will be published by Tor Books in June. Here’s a bit more about the book Read more >

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Here's the shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award.

Today, the shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The BBC National Short Story Award, now in its eighteenth year, grants £15,000 to the winning author; each Read more >

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Look inside the gorgeous English cottage where John Le Carré wrote Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

If you have $3.7 million, you might be in the running to purchase Tregiffian Cottage, the Cornwall home of legendary novelist John Le Carré, who died in 2020. If not, you’ll have to settle for looking at the pictures—and if Read more >

By Emily Temple

US Poet Laureate Ada Limon is publishing a new anthology of 50 poems by contemporary poets.

Lit Hub is pleased to announce a new books, published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a collection of poems reflecting on “our relationship to the natural world Read more >

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You can now look up the definitions of "nepo baby" and "shower orange" on dictionary.com.

Attention word nerds: today, Dictionary.com announced its latest update, which includes 566 new entries, 348 new definitions for pre-existing entries, and 2,256 revised definitions. New additions include terms you likely know (nepo baby, decision fatigue, box braids) and a few Read more >

By Emily Temple

Here’s the longlist for the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.

Today, the judges for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction—which celebrates the best in nonfiction writing—announced the 13 books on their 2023 longlist. “Given the wealth of options on offer, getting to a longlist was never going to be easy. Read more >

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Read the first reviews of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s era-defining opus, was first published sixty-six years ago today. In the decades since, Kerouac’s autobiographical, stream-of-consciousness novel has sold more than 3 million copies, become a staple of high school English curricula countrywide, and been hailed Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

There are 26 new books out today!

September is upon us! And, while this does sadly mean the end of summer (on calendars if not always on thermometers), it also means that a month of exciting new literary releases is here. Below, you’ll find nearly thirty fascinating Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

24 books finally out in paperback this September.

September is officially here, and that means—aside from the (hopeful) promise of cooler weather after a sweltering summer—a new month of paperbacks to look forward to. Below, you’ll find a wide-ranging selection of novels, stories, memoirs, and nonfiction studies being Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Cover Reveal: See the cover for Greg Wrenn’s memoir Mothership.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Greg Wrenn’s memoir, Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis forthcoming from Regalo Press. Here’s a bit about the book from the Read more >

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Here are the finalists for the 10th Annual Kirkus Prize.

The Kirkus Prize is one of the richest annual literary awards in the world with the prizes totaling $150,000. Writers become eligible by receiving a rare, starred review from Kirkus Reviews; this year’s 18 finalists were chosen from 608 young Read more >

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20 new books out today!

The wheel of the year is turning, as it always does, beginning its slow shift from summer to the fall. If you’re unsure of how to spend the last days of August, rest assured that even if seasons always shift, Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Read the first reviews of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.

In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Which European city appears the most often in literature?

If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database Read more >

By Emily Temple

22 new books out today!

It’s August 22nd, and, in a delightful coincidence, I have twenty-two brand-new books to recommend checking out, one for each day of the month that’s passed so far. This week, you’ll find an especially robust showing of nonfiction, as well Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Exclusive: See the cover for Emily Raboteau's next book, Lessons for Survival.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Emily Raboteau’s forthcoming book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”, in which she “uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it Read more >

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Read the very first reviews of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club.

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s era-defining debut novel about a load of disaffected men beating the bejesus out of each other in order to feel alive, was first published twenty-seven years ago today. The book rapidly gained a cult following, was Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Author and friend of the fam Michael Lewis weighed in on The Blind Side legal petition.

Former offensive lineman Michael Oher’s petition against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy states that he made no money from Michael Lewis’ 2006 book The Blind Side or the 2009 film adaptation. The movie starred Sandra Bullock, was optioned for $250,000 Read more >

By Janet Manley