Ten years—ten years!—reliving JK Rowling’s journey from underdog pastiche to problematic bajillionaire seems like a lot, doesn’t it? And yet Max (formerly HBO Max) plans on sinking millions into a long-running reboot of the YA property. Obviously a lot happens Read more >
Salman Rushdie is made of sturdy stuff indeed. After a brutal attack at a reading in upstate NY in the summer of 2022, the author has been slowly recovering from his wounds, though, he tells Time in a new interview, Read more >
A new drop of choice up-and-coming novelists has arrived on the morning tide. Granta magazine has announced its 2023 Best of British Novelists list, geared to future stars, including picks from Sigrid Rausing, Rachel Cusk, Helen Oyeyemi, Tash Aw, and Read more >
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 25th class of Cullman Fellows. This year, the fellows were chosen from a group of 408 applicants from 51 countries; they will Read more >
Oprah has one. Questlove has one. Fearne Cotton and Sarah Jessica Parker each have one. Lena Dunham had one. And now Gillian Flynn is getting in on the imprint action. Gillian Flynn Books will be a new imprint at Zando, Read more >
Laura Cogan, the reigning editor at literary journal ZYZZYVA is set to step down after dedicating 10 years to the role as the sun rises on the reign of Oscar Villalon, the long-serving managing editor. Villalon has worked alongside Cogan Read more >
Olympian and WNBA star Brittney Griner will co-write a memoir about her experience being detained by Russia in 2022 while headed over to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg, Deadline reports. Griner was behind bars for 10 months as the diplomatic debacle Read more >
It’s technically been spring for a few weeks now, but here in the Northeast, it’s finally feeling like it. Daffodils are blooming, the grass is growing, and the sun is slowly returning my will to live. Three years ago around Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the Read more >
It’s mid-April, and, as always, there are some fascinating new titles to add to your list(s)! Here’s a selection of new books out today to consider checking out. * Anna Metcalfe, Chrysalis (Random House) “Unputdownable, ice-cool, and wittily contemporary, Chrysalis announces Anna Read more >
What are the greatest history pop songs of all time? I decided to make a playlist and collect them; it’s a playlist for my forthcoming book, The World: A Family History of Humanity. History books do not usually have soundtracks, Read more >
We have ceded more terrain to the robots. A ToolTester survey found that people surveyed in late 2023, 53% incorrectly identified AI-generated writing as human-made; a figure that rose to 63.5% when the technology was more advanced (GPT-4). So, not Read more >
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published 98 years ago today, on April 10, 1925. Despite less-than-thrilling sales, the following year, Paramount Pictures turned it into an 80-minute silent film starring Warner Baxter as Jay Gatsby, with Lois Wilson Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, which will be published by Riverhead in January 2024. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: One Read more >
In the latest legal reporting on Kanye West’s “Donda Academy,” a $15,000-a-year private school, I was reminded of Homer Simpson’s failed religion. Most charter schools/religions fail, though the details of West’s academy seem more damning than the usual bespoke curriculum Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, Let Us Descend, “a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War,” which will be published by Scribner Read more >
Another day, another piece of horrifying anti-trans news in the book world. Even by recent standards, though, this one seems particularly fucked-up. An Alaska-based children’s book illustrator has been dropped by his publisher after making terroristic threats against transgender people. Read more >
After creating several lifetimes’ worth of mythologies, Jorge Luis Borges saw his own end in 1986 (he died), and the entire surreal estate came to rest with his wife, Maria Kodama. You can picture it piled into her living room: Read more >
The Carol Shields Prize is the largest prize for women and non-binary writers, with a $150,000 windfall for the winner, and $12,500 for runners-up. It aims to improve representation of works by female and nonbinary writers, and readership of same. Read more >
Tom Holland the writer and historian has respectfully asked that the good people of India stop tagging him in photographs of actor Tom Holland from the recent Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) event, a Bollywood night-of-nights. An honest mistake! Read more >
