It’s August. It’s hot. You can smell everybody’s trash, you accidentally wiped sweat on your crush, and worst of all, your therapist is on vacation, or about to be. How will you manage? I won’t presume to prescribe books to Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Crystal Hana Kim’s “hauntingly poetic” latest novel, The Stone Home, which will be published by William Morrow in April. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: In 2011, Eunju Read more >
In big news for bodies keeping the score and also bibliotherapy, Simon & Schuster have announced the November 7 release of actor Megan Fox’s debut poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, with imprint Gallery Books. Per the press release: “These Read more >
One of the most hotly-anticipated literary adaptations of the year, Apple TV+’s The Changeling, now has a hair-raising trailer. Looks pretty damn cool, eh? Adapted from Victor LaValle’s bestselling 2017 fantasy horror novel of the same name, The Changeling stars Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut novel-in-stories Redwood Court, which will be published by Dial Press in February. Here’s a little more about the book from the publisher: “Mika, you sit at Read more >
Jenny Han and Stephen King: welcome to your new home. Simon & Schuster, the 99-year-old publishing house, has been sold by Paramount to KKR for $1.62 billion, the New York Times reports. This came after a deal between Paramount and Read more >
As the second week of August rolls around, there’s much to potentially direct your attention to, from political news to plans for that vacation you might have been saving for the end of summer, but you also, as always, have Read more >
Good news for Carley Fortune, who put just the right mix of trauma (a parent lost in a deadly car crash, postpartum depression) and love (love) in her bestselling 2023 romantic novel Meet Me At The Lake, and has reportedly Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Glitter Road, January Gill O’Neil’s latest poetry collection, which will be published by CanvanKerry Press in February. Here’s a bit about the collection from the publisher: “My poems brought me to Oxford, Read more >
We are in the countdown to the Joyce Carol Oates documentary (September 8, for those playing along at home), and JCO has given the Financial Times, of all people, a neat dose of her thoughts on life, the cosmos, and Read more >
Michael Chabon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union—spent his Covid quarantine taking a trip…through time! Well, not literally, but in an emotional and curatorial sense, the speculative fiction Read more >
Waaaaariorrrrrs! Come out to play-ayyyyy! Everybody might be packed, but it’s hard to imagine how it would be possible to improve on Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic The Warriors, based on the novel of the same name by Sol Yurick, which Read more >
Today’s news from the front lines of Florida’s war on kids: The state has “effectively banned” Advanced Placement Psychology because its anti-LGBTQ law forbids the course’s material on gender and sexuality. Because the College Board quite reasonably refuses to excise Read more >
The quote in the above headline is part of the last line of Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous sonnet, “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” as translated by Stephen Mitchell. It’s a haunting line, among the most recognizable second person directives in all Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Uche Okonkwo’s debut short story collection A Kind of Madness, which Tin House will publish in April 2024. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: Set in contemporary Read more >
James Baldwin is widely considered to be one of the finest writers and public intellectuals this country has ever produced. A brilliant novelist, essayist, and social critic, his explorations of homosexuality, racism, and class struggle in America have had a Read more >
If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
