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Robert Pinsky! Porochista Khakpour! Rufi Thorpe! 26 new books out today.

Dear Readers, it is once again Tuesday, and that means, as ever, that there are new things to read and rejoice in. And today is no exception, for there are many, many exciting new books to consider. I’ve compiled twenty-six Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Attention: Soon you'll be able to do a writing residency in Ursula Le Guin’s home.

Ursula Le Guin’s family and Literary Arts in Portland announced today that Le Guin’s old home will become soon become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. That’s right, you might be able to write at the desk where Le Read more >

By James Folta

This retelling of Pride & Prejudice has five Mary Bennets.

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 >

By James Folta

Here are the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards.

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 >

By Drew Broussard

The Philadelphia Free Library’s whole Author Events staff has resigned over workplace conditions.

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 >

By James Folta

Going once, going twice. Literary Agents of Change is having its annual auction!

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 >

By Brittany Allen

Why are so many adults still obsessed with Busytown?

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 >

By James Folta

Romance Writers of America has filed for bankruptcy. What's next?

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 >

By Brittany Allen

Bookmarks: the definitive ranking.

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 >

By James Folta

Lady pirates! Kafkaesque stories! Ovid's advice! 26 new books out today.

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 >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Metamorphose yourself into a movie-goer: A Kafka-in-love film is coming.

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 >

By James Folta

Book recommendations for every kind of summer person.

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 >

By James Folta

More media companies are making deals with OpenAI.

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 >

By Brittany Allen

One great short story to read today: Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain"

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 >

By Emily Temple

The names of 15,000 children killed in Gaza will be read aloud in Berlin tomorrow.

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 >

By Dan Sheehan

Jhumpa Lahiri! Colson Whitehead! Sex cults! 25 new books out in paperback this June.

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 >

By Gabrielle Bellot