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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
