Yes, in what seems certain to become the most critically-acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens’ festive opus ever committed to celluloid, Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell (like Bill Murray, Michael Caine, and Matthew McConaughey before them) are putting their own unique spin Read more >
We love to be active and engaged members of the literary community. We also love to not leave our bed. Now you can do both! * 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Celebration November 2 @ 7pm EST Hosted by Read more >
In a particularly heinous act of literary graverobbing a guy named Johnny Teague—a pastor and businessman running for congress in Texas’s 7th district—has written a “sequel” to The Diaries of Anne Frank. Yup. According to Jewish Telegraphic Agency: The Lost Read more >
Never not giving thanks for paperbacks. * Gish Jen, Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories (Vintage, November 1) “There are 11 [stories] here—insightful, wistful, nuanced—sometimes heartbreaking and often funny. Each tale packs in social commentary, political asides, and keen observations that Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the 2022 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which seeks to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible standard.” Previous grantees include Rachel Aviv, Sarah M. Broom, and Chloé Read more >
We’re starting the month off strong, with new books from Katherine Dunn, N.K. Jemisin, Franny Choi, Dorthe Nors, and more. Not to mention the celebrity book component: Bono, Bob Dylan, and Matthew Perry (whose memoir we might be looking forward Read more >
There’s something about short stories that screams Halloween to me; I think it’s because they’re the perfect length to be read around a campfire, or with a flashlight in hand on a dark and stormy night. And because there is Read more >
News dropped over the weekend that Henry Cavill is handing over the role of Geralt to Liam Hemsworth (ugh) after season 3 of The Witcher on Netflix (expected to air next summer). The internet was none too happy about it (same), Read more >
If you, like me, spent the weekend squirming while watching Guillermo del Toro’s new anthology horror series, Cabinet of Curiosities, on Netflix, you might also have noticed that all the episodes but one start with a hat tip toward the Read more >
Listen. It’s Friday, and things aren’t great. But here’s something nice for you: a collection of frowning, eye-rolling, dead-panning literary types holding on to adorable animals. Like I said, it’s Friday. The real question is—how could you be so grumpy Read more >
In a ceremony on Thursday at the Austin Central Library, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of their ninth annual Kirkus Prize in Fiction, Nonfiction and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen from the 1,436 books that received the Read more >
By now, perhaps you’re aware of the kerfuffle over the two (2) separate instances in Matthew Perry’s forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, in which he takes extremely cheap shots at Keanu Reeves in the context of Read more >
We’ve been covering the rising, almost biblical, flood of Republican censorship for a while now, but with midterm debate season in full-swing, all of the crazy is going mainstream. On his show last night Stephen Colbert took aim at the Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, the debut memoir by Kundiman fellow Jane Wong, which will be published by Tin House this spring. Here’s how the publisher describes the novel: In Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle: Poems, their latest poetry collection forthcoming from Curbstone Books. Chang’s poetry has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. In Read more >
This week, the United States Postal Service announced their 2023 slate of stamps, including new forever stamps honoring literary legends Toni Morrison and Ernest J. Gaines. (Morrison has been immortalized on stamps before, but it’s USPS policy that living people Read more >
Andrew Bird has recorded a collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers billed as a “reimagination” of the Emily Dickinson poem “I felt a Funeral in my Brain.” According to Bird (whose latest album, Inside Problems, was released this past summer): I came Read more >
Today I learned that not only is there a real Frankenstein Castle (in Mühltal, Germany), but that is was the birthplace of a 17th century alchemist named Johann Konrad Dipple, who was obsessed with finding the secret to immortality and Read more >
It’s rare in this day and age that you know exactly what everyone is doing at a given moment. In the olden days, before streaming services, you could pretty much guarantee that your colleagues and friends were all gathered around Read more >
As reported in the Japanese Times (with a headline worthy of Murakami), bookstores have been closing at an alarming rate in Japan over the last decade. According to an industry organization, there are currently 11,952 stores operating in Japan, compared Read more >
