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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

In The Other Black Girl trailer, publishing is a scary biz.

When former assistant editor Zakiya Dalila Harris started her novel about the publishing business, she was inspired in part by Jordan Peele’s horror-turned-excavation of racism Get Out. The resulting book, The Other Black Girl, was in a 14-way bidding way, and Read more >

By Janet Manley

A brand new Tana French novel is coming your way this spring.

Lovers of moody literary mysteries rejoice: Tana French has announced her next book. The Hunter, which will be published by Viking on March 5, 2024, is a sequel to 2020’s “Irish Western” The Searcher, which was set in a small Read more >

By Emily Temple

Vermont's Lt. Gov. is doing a reading tour of banned books, moving him to the top of our Lt. Gov list.

What does a lieutenant governor do? Stand in for the governor when they’re out of state, certainly, but the rest of the time it’s more of a Veep-esque listening tour full of corndog-eating, posing with horses, and riding in monster Read more >

By Janet Manley

Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger's forthcoming essay collection, First Love.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love, which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Read more >

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Announcing the inaugural cohort of National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of the NBF Teacher Fellowship, “a new initiative to support and celebrate 6th-12th grade teachers using innovative methods to make reading for pleasure a part of their students’ school day experience.” Read more >

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Now AI is helping ban books.

AI can’t guarantee that it won’t play porn when you ask it to play a children’s song. It can’t tell whether someone’s eyes are open in a photo. It can’t deliver a case history without inventing case law. And yet! Read more >

By Janet Manley

How meme culture changed comedy writing.

Do memes live rent-free in your head? The Workaholic writers’ room famously kept whiteboards of “over-done jokes” that were verboten. From edge to edge, you can find bits of brain decay dating back several years like rings on the brittle Read more >

By Janet Manley

Exclusive: See the cover for Wei Tchou's experimental memoir Little Seed.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Wei Tchou’s Little Seed, “an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author’s relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns,” which will Read more >

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26 new books out today!

The middle of August is here, and, that means that we have at least two things to look forward to: a few more weeks of summer, and this week’s release of a veritable cornucopia of new, exciting books to read Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Here's another way for authors and publishers to help in Maui.

The Kānaka Maoli literary scene is asking for help from authors, illustrators, publishers, and agents as they embark on the slow road to recovery following the deadly wildfires of August 8th on Maui, Hawai’i. If you are a writerly sort, Read more >

By Janet Manley

Lahaina Public Library stands damaged among the wreckage of Maui's fires.

Fast-moving wildfires damaged much of Lahaina, the capital of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, this week, as well as locales up and down the west coast of Maui. Priceless cultural artifacts and buildings were destroyed or damaged, including Lahaina Public Library, Read more >

By Janet Manley

The Decemberists' Colin Meloy is writing a novel about a 'bio-broker.'

What do you even do with a caul? That’s a question that The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy (“July, July, Julaaaaaaay”) asked himself while reading the beginning of David Copperfield, in which David is born en caul—in his amniotic sac—and the Read more >

By Janet Manley

8 books to read this month (while your therapist is on vacation).

It’s August. It’s hot. You can smell everybody’s trash, you accidentally wiped sweat on your crush, and worst of all, your therapist is on vacation, or about to be. How will you manage? I won’t presume to prescribe books to Read more >

By Emily Temple

Exclusive: See the cover for Crystal Hana Kim's next novel, The Stone Home.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Crystal Hana Kim’s “hauntingly poetic” latest novel, The Stone Home, which will be published by William Morrow in April. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: In 2011, Eunju Read more >

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Now we await Megan Fox's "dark" poetry.

In big news for bodies keeping the score and also bibliotherapy, Simon & Schuster have announced the November 7 release of actor Megan Fox’s debut poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, with imprint Gallery Books. Per the press release: “These Read more >

By Janet Manley

Watch the creepy first trailer for The Changeling.

One of the most hotly-anticipated literary adaptations of the year, Apple TV+’s The Changeling, now has a hair-raising trailer. Looks pretty damn cool, eh? Adapted from Victor LaValle’s bestselling 2017 fantasy horror novel of the same name, The Changeling stars Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Exclusive: See the cover for DéLana R. A. Dameron’s Redwood Court.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel-in-stories Redwood Court, which will be published by Dial Press in February. Here’s a little more about the book from the publisher: “Mika, you sit at Read more >

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