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One great short story to read today: Grace Paley's "A Conversation with My Father."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

A Hemingway film adaptation with Liev Schreiber and Josh Hutcherson is headed our way.

News from the Cannes Film Festival: An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel (his last one) Across the River and Into the Trees has found a distributor in Bleeker Street. The novel centers on Colonel Richard Cantwell, a 50-year-old US Army Read more >

By Janet Manley

Kirk Cameron, aka right-wing Raffi, has a new kids' book for Pride Month.

Kirk Cameron has had a tough year, not unlike poor, pregnant Mary. “We tried to go to libraries across the country and we’ve been turned away,” he told a church gathering this week in Charlotte, N.C., of touring his conservative Read more >

By Janet Manley

Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Grief is the Thing With Feathers.

Benedict Cumberbatch—the Oscar-nominated star of Power of the Dog, The Imitation Game, and Patrick Melrose, as well as all of those epilepsy-inducing Marvel movies—has signed on to play the lead (not the crow) in an upcoming film adaptation of Max Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Here are the guest editors (and covers!) for the Best American Series 2023.

Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Read more >

By Literary Hub

Watch Ben Whishaw read Seamus Heaney's translation of "The Names of the Hare."

Earlier this month, at 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, actor Ben Whishaw performed a selection of work from The Translations of Seamus Heaney, edited by Marco Sonzogni, introducing the readings in a script written by Colm Tóibín. The evening included this riveting Read more >

By Emily Temple

One great short story to read today: Samantha Hunt's "A Love Story."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Janet Manley

Expand your international reading with all 37 entries of the Eurovision Book Contest.

Here’s a great way to expand your international reading: with Hay Festival’s Eurovision Book Contest! Voted for by the public (suggestions were limited to anything published in the years since the song contest began in 1956), these are your 37 Read more >

By Eliza Smith

24 new books to check out today.

It’s a new Tuesday, and that means, as ever, that a lot of new books are out. As the days (generally) get a bit warmer and more conducive to that special pleasure of reading outside (or in the cool indoors), Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Here are the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2022.” Here are Read more >

By Emily Temple

One great short story to read today: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's "Friday Black."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe has taken over Eurovision.

It’s this little American’s first time watching the Eurovision Song Contest (streaming on Peacock), an activity I never thought would overlap with Lit Hub dot com… until Austria performed at last night’s semi-finals with their (already TikTok famous) song “Who Read more >

By Eliza Smith

Shailene Woodley is your new Patricia Highsmith.

Move over, Dame Hellen Mirren, there’s a new Patricia Highsmith in town. Shailene Woodley, star of Big Little Lies and [checks Wikipedia] a lot of films I’ve never heard of (sorry, I am old and there are so many YA Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

One great short story to read today: Donald Barthelme's "Rebecca."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize.

A couple months off winning the Republic of Consciousness Prize, Arinze Ifeakandu was announced as the winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize at an event tonight in London for his debut short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Read more >

By Janet Manley

Pedro Páramo is coming to Netflix.

Shooting is set to begin on Pedro Páramo, a Spanish-language movie adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s seminal 1958 novella about a man who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will he will travel to Comala to meet his wayward Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

See the cover for Kaveh Akbar's novel Martyr!

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s forthcoming novel Martyr!, pitched as “a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided Read more >

By Literary Hub

One great short story to read today: Wells Tower's "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Raf Richardson-Carillo

One great short story to read today: Lesley Nneka Arimah's "Who Will Greet You at Home."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

Writer Jonathan Eig, whose new biography of Martin Luther King Jr, King: A Life, comes out next week, has discovered that King’s harshest rebuke of Malcolm X was conjured out of thin air. The famous criticism, which appeared in a Read more >

By Jonny Diamond