It’s August 22nd, and, in a delightful coincidence, I have twenty-two brand-new books to recommend checking out, one for each day of the month that’s passed so far. This week, you’ll find an especially robust showing of nonfiction, as well Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Emily Raboteau’s forthcoming book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”, in which she “uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it Read more >
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s era-defining debut novel about a load of disaffected men beating the bejesus out of each other in order to feel alive, was first published twenty-seven years ago today. The book rapidly gained a cult following, was Read more >
Former offensive lineman Michael Oher’s petition against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy states that he made no money from Michael Lewis’ 2006 book The Blind Side or the 2009 film adaptation. The movie starred Sandra Bullock, was optioned for $250,000 Read more >
When former assistant editor Zakiya Dalila Harris started her novel about the publishing business, she was inspired in part by Jordan Peele’s horror-turned-excavation of racism Get Out. The resulting book, The Other Black Girl, was in a 14-way bidding way, and Read more >
Lovers of moody literary mysteries rejoice: Tana French has announced her next book. The Hunter, which will be published by Viking on March 5, 2024, is a sequel to 2020’s “Irish Western” The Searcher, which was set in a small Read more >
What does a lieutenant governor do? Stand in for the governor when they’re out of state, certainly, but the rest of the time it’s more of a Veep-esque listening tour full of corndog-eating, posing with horses, and riding in monster Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love, which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of the NBF Teacher Fellowship, “a new initiative to support and celebrate 6th-12th grade teachers using innovative methods to make reading for pleasure a part of their students’ school day experience.” Read more >
AI can’t guarantee that it won’t play porn when you ask it to play a children’s song. It can’t tell whether someone’s eyes are open in a photo. It can’t deliver a case history without inventing case law. And yet! Read more >
Do memes live rent-free in your head? The Workaholic writers’ room famously kept whiteboards of “over-done jokes” that were verboten. From edge to edge, you can find bits of brain decay dating back several years like rings on the brittle Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Wei Tchou’s Little Seed, “an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author’s relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns,” which will Read more >
The middle of August is here, and, that means that we have at least two things to look forward to: a few more weeks of summer, and this week’s release of a veritable cornucopia of new, exciting books to read Read more >
The Kānaka Maoli literary scene is asking for help from authors, illustrators, publishers, and agents as they embark on the slow road to recovery following the deadly wildfires of August 8th on Maui, Hawai’i. If you are a writerly sort, Read more >
Fast-moving wildfires damaged much of Lahaina, the capital of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, this week, as well as locales up and down the west coast of Maui. Priceless cultural artifacts and buildings were destroyed or damaged, including Lahaina Public Library, Read more >
What do you even do with a caul? That’s a question that The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy (“July, July, Julaaaaaaay”) asked himself while reading the beginning of David Copperfield, in which David is born en caul—in his amniotic sac—and the Read more >
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