If you’ve ever fancied yourself a basic kind of man driven by simple (violent) desires, you might like to enter the 2023 Stella Shouting contest, which takes place this weekend, ahead of next week’s Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Read more >
Gone are the days when you could write a book a chapter at a time and hook people in a slow, serial burn. Now, if the internet is to believed, one must amass 100,000 followers on social media before they Read more >
Listen… can you hear the denim moving across a stage in California, the swish of gelled hair? S.E. Hinton’s beloved novel The Outsiders has been adapted into a musical at La Jolla Playhouse, with solid reviews following the open. If Read more >
There is a literary phenomenon that afflicts married people, in which a writer they have embraced as speaking their very thoughts puts out a new book, and it is a divorce book. This triggers a certain paranoid crisis: do you Read more >
“I like to think I sprang from a head,” Patricia Lockwood once wrote, “I like to think the head was mine.” We cannot all come into the world with divine knowledge of the written word immaculately stacked into the halls Read more >
Here’s the latest development in the Year of Judy Blume: the trailer for the first ever Judy Blume documentary, Judy Blume Forever, produced by Imagine Documentaries and slated to premiere on Prime Video on Friday April 21. “Just like her Read more >
Today, over at Conjunctions, you can read “Every Friday Nite is Kiddies Nite,” a previously unpublished short story by Tennessee Williams—part of the forthcoming collection The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories, which will be published by New Directions in Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elizabeth Crook’s The Madstone, forthcoming from Little Brown in November 2023. Here’s a little more about The Madstone, from the publisher: A pregnant mother and her son—on the run from her violent Read more >
Caldecott Honoree Ian Falconer died Tuesday aged 63, The New Yorker reported in a remembrance. Falconer was the author of the lovable early-aughts Olivia series, starring the famous pig, having created the first story as a gift for his niece Olivia Read more >
One day, the friends have had enough with their husbands, their jobs, their lives, and decide to make a break for it. They grip hands, stuff their weapons* into the glove box, and… open a bookstore together. It’s a thing. Read more >
For someone who has foreseen the downfall of society, Margaret Atwood sure is chipper and fast with the reparteé. Take her recent WIRED interview with Kate Knibbs (lucky you, Kate!), who did a great job of facilitating a wide-ranging and Read more >
Here are some fascinating new books to check out this week! * Rafael Frumkin, Confidence (Simon and Schuster) “Theranos but make it gay.” –Electric Literature Leila Aboulela, River Spirit (Grove) “Aboulela reveals the thin lines that can demarcate religious zeal and patriotic Read more >
The Book of Animal Secrets: Nature’s Lessons for a Long and Happy Life is not supposed to publish until tomorrow, March 7th, but is already a bestseller thanks to author Dr. David Agus’s comfort in the media habitat. He has been Read more >
Dear Sugar fans, it’s here: the Tiny Beautiful Things trailer, starring Kathryn Hahn as Clare (the Cheryl Strayed stand-in), with appearances in flashback by Merritt Wever as her mother and Maggie Rogers setting a fire in the background. Time to Read more >
Having never played The Last of Us the video game, I envision HBO’s adaptation as, essentially, The Mandalorian with Lyanna Mormont in place of baby Yoda. There is something fundamentally heart-murmur-inducing about a man clad in literal or emotional armor Read more >
You cannot be president unless you first allow yourself to imagine yourself as president. So goes the wisdom of self-help author and new-age guru Marianne Williamson, who is back, baby, with a 2024 run for the top job (before enlightenment Read more >
UPDATE MARCH 8: Contrary to first reports, R.L. Stine did not perform these edits! Rather, the publisher, Scholastic, employed the changes. Have some decency, he is not yet in the ground! * Whether or not you find it creepy for Read more >
In case you were wondering, today over at the Booker Prize website, Dua Lipa has planted her flag squarely in the pro-A Little Life camp. “I will happily admit, as a devoted and lifelong reader, that there are more than a Read more >
In big news for The Shop Around the Corner, Amazon.com Inc. was reported today to be pausing construction on its second headquarters in Virginia, per Bloomberg. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, let the cranes dangle idly alongside Read more >
Bad Robot has snagged the film rights to Mona Awad’s bestselling 2019 novel Bunny—a bloody satire of elite MFA programs that became a BookTok sensation after a Bunny movie fan-casting hashtag went viral. How viral? Somewhere in the region of 4.1 Read more >
