A man so upset by the Pride programming at his local libraries that he felt moved to graffiti “GROOMERS” onto the windows has been charged with possession of child pornography, the Washington Post reports. The man, Charles M. Sutherland, vandalized Read more >
Strange dreams, a glowing blue cat, a giant talking frog, a tsunami, a lost bank employee, a schizophrenic accountant, people who are there but not there—I’d say it’s a Haruki Murakami adaptation, all right. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on Read more >
Thirty-five thousand dollars is on offer for winners of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, which aims to support small-press works and is open to U.S. and Canadian works. The Prize notes that “most often it is the small publishers Read more >
Not surprisingly, people still prefer printed books to e-books. And by people I mean Generation Z, that unfortunate cohort coming of age in the midst of mass shootings, ascendant authoritarianism, and mass environmental calamity. Citing reasons like eye-strain, digital detoxification, Read more >
There are two types of authors: The first writes a fictional book about, say, killing their husband that turns out to be true. The second writes a book in a strange hybrid of English and Cuban-Spanish that is heralded as Read more >
Park Slope of the east, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, has had its own Greenlight Bookstore since 2016, an addition to the neighborhood that made people feel, We have our own bookstore! All we need, now, is a good place to buy Read more >
A bunch of exciting new books are out today from authors new and old alike! There’s definitely something here for everyone’s TBR pile. * The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe (Penguin Classics 65th Anniversary Edition) “Sixty years later, Jaffe’s classic Read more >
Your monetary policy daddy, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, just bailed out Silicon Valley Bank after investors found that their money had slipped through a sidewalk grate while the titans of Silicon Valley weren’t watching. Whoops! Sometimes people find themselves up a Read more >
As you may recall, back in January of 2022, after much speculation and an industrywide manhunt, a Tom Ripley-esque rights coordinator by the name of Filippo Bernardini was arrested at JFK airport for the extremely strange crime of impersonating literary Read more >
Big night for moms at the Oscars—moms who won, and mothers to whom winners (The Daniels, Ke Huy Kuan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and on!) dedicated their wins. Best Actress winner Michelle Yeoh does not have children, but her character Evelyn Read more >
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 >
