If you’ve ever dreamed of being cool enough to go to Sundance (same), I’ve got good news for you: you can buy tickets for virtual screenings for only $20 a pop! This year’s fest has an enticing lineup, as always, Read more >
Late last week, a new profile of boygenius—the “world’s most exciting supergroup,” in case you didn’t know, consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker—reminded us all that they are huge book nerds. (They also dropped some new music, Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Shannon Sanders’ debut story collection, Company, which Graywolf Press calls “a richly detailed, brilliantly woven collection about the lives and lore of one Black family.” Here’s some more from the publisher about Read more >
It’s not hugely surprising, given their songwriting styles, but everyone’s favorite millennial supergroup—Boygenius, aka Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker—is really into reading. According to this Rolling Stone cover profile, the first bonding moment between Dacus and Baker was… Read more >
You’ve known and loved her as Donna Meagle in Parks and Rec and Ruby Hill in Good Girls, and now Retta is set to play a crime-solving Bookstagrammer in NBC’s forthcoming Murder by the Book. This series (brought to us by Good Girls Read more >
If, despite its obvious cinematic potential, the Hollywood power brokers haven’t come a-knockin’ for your novel yet, don’t be discouraged; these things can take time. Sometimes they can take more time than you have years on this earth. Case in Read more >
Huge if true: Stanford economics professor Erik Brynjolfsson does not think ChatGPT is coming for our extremely lucrative writing careers. Instead, he predicts that the AI technology will function as a “calculator for writing,” cutting down on the “routine, rote Read more >
Emma Straub—novelist, bookstore-owner, children’s book author, and all-round nice person—was uninvited from reading at Texas elementary schools because of her use of “foul language” on social media. In an email to parents, administrators from the Katy Independent School District (in Read more >
Lit Hub is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Periplus Fellows, selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants. This year, Periplus awarded a total of 55 mentorships to writers of color living and working in the United Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Nishanth Injam’s debut short story collection, The Best Possible Experience, which Pantheon calls an “astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and Read more >
Rumor has it that bestselling memoirist and plain ol’ bloke Prince Harry actually signed a four-book deal—so get ready for three more world-historically intense publicity cycles! As Tom Tivnan, managing editor of The Bookseller, told the Mirror UK: I believe Read more >
Other than working with writers to publish great books, the thing I was most looking forward to in creating Roxane Gay Books, was covers. For the first two titles, I commissioned Rodrigo Corral who has such a unique and bold Read more >
Featuring new books by Tsitsi Dangarembga, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Monica Heisey, as well as Bret Easton Ellis and Anne Waldman (big week for Bennington alums!). Happy browsing! * Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards (Knopf) “Sometimes horrifying, sometimes nostalgic and Read more >
Huh, apparently we have Florence Pugh to thank for John le Carré’s last book, Agent Running in the Field (are we just running out of spy thriller titles at this point?). As Pugh told writer Chloe Schama in a recent Read more >
There’s no denying that Colleen Hoover has had an incredible year. Still, despite the relentless appetite for her novels, it seems that the people do not, in fact, want a coloring book based on her number-one bestselling book It Ends With Read more >
For over 50 years, Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been a beloved touchstone of coming-of-age literature. It’s honestly wild that it has never been adapted into a movie, but the whims of Hollywood satisfyingly explain Read more >
You don’t really have to do much at this point to absorb passages from Prince Harry’s public therapy tell-all trauma dump, Spare. So much of what’s in the book has already appeared in interviews, profiles and, thanks to a very Read more >
We all took up a new hobby during the pandemic, whether it was knitting, baking, pottery, woodcarving, running, mixology, rollerblading, or mirror typing ancient books in their original languages using an elaborate system of blank keyboards. Yes, for a while there Read more >
If your New Year’s resolution was something along the lines of: attend more events or be a better literary citizen, I have good news for you! Here are a handful of virtual events you can enjoy from the comfort of Read more >
Another trip around the sun, another year of bookselling. You’ve heard about the best books of 2022, but what about the bestsellers? Well, you’ve probably heard about a few of them too. Here’s the list of the 25 bestselling books Read more >
