We all know books have the power to move us to tears, and that those tears have the power to move books. Last year, with the sudden rise on popularity of certain titles, the publishing industry realized that BookTok might Read more >
Katherine Rundell has won the UK’s £50,000 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction for Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, a biography of the poet. Chair of judges Caroline Sanderson said that the decision had been unanimous. “Exquisitely rendered, its Read more >
As you may have heard—if you pay any attention at all to the literary universe—Joan Didion’s estate sale, “An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion,” hosted by Stair Galleries, was open for bidding November 2 through November Read more >
While simping for politicians is always embarrassing, I do have a soft spot for Bernie Sanders, whose anger about the conditions faced by majority of non-rich people in this country strikes me as genuine, and necessary. This is also the Read more >
In a brisk awards ceremony (that came in right on time) this year’s National Book Awards, hosted by Padma Lakshmi, have been bestowed upon the following! FICTION: Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch NONFICTION: Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Read more >
Today, the first full-size statue of Virginia Woolf was unveiled by the river at Richmond-upon-Thames, where she lived from 1914-1924. “There are so few women represented in sculpture,” sculptor Laury Dizengremel told The Guardian. “I find it quite remarkable that Read more >
In response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new and ongoing sanctions against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry has released a list of 100 Canadians citizens who are no longer allowed entry into Russia, including… Margaret Atwood. According to the Read more >
Another Tuesday, another round of new releases. This week sees the publication of new Patti Smith, an anthology edited by Eileen Myles, the five-year-anniversary edition of Hanif Abdurraqib, and more. * Patti Smith, A Book of Days (Random House) “A Read more >
The BBC and A24 are teaming up to adapt Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain as a TV series. Douglas himself will script the show, which will be produced by A24 for BBC One. Shuggie Bain, Douglas’ debut novel, Read more >
Last week’s dramatic crypto crash—which can be laid largely at the feet of former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange FTX—is such an obviously archetypal tale of American hubris that it is a surprise to no one that Michael Read more >
Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about the relentless attacks on libraries by craven gangs of “concerned parents” mobilized by Republican rhetoric and Facebook, so today it’s my pleasure to shine the light on some more fun library news. For Read more >
I guess if you’re a publisher whose stated mission is to disrupt the publishing industry, you have to move fast and break things, no matter how ghoulish that makes you. Such is apparently the case for “hybrid publisher” Ballast Books Read more >
Oh yes. This week, Detroit’s Metro Times highlighted A Ain’t Always for Apple: An Erotic Adult Alphabet Book, which is . . . exactly what it sounds like. The book (which has become a multi-volume series) was written and self-published by Detroit Read more >
Look, it’s easy to dunk on nerd-bro crypto evangelists… So let’s! In a September profile of brand new poor person Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, he makes it pretty clear that books are for beta losers who Read more >
As you may have seen on Book Twitter today, the unionized workers of HarperCollins are striking to secure a fair contract, livable wages, and a more equitable publishing industry. Some 250 employees—across the editorial, publicity, sales, marketing, legal and design Read more >
The trailer for the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s coming-of-age novel The Lying Life of Adults has been released, and it looks appropriately gritty and gorgeous. The 2020 novel follows teenaged Giovanna as she travels the refined, middle-class, 1990s-era Naples Read more >
For as long as humans have been writing, we’ve been writing about the things that make us miserable. And there’s something almost heartening about the knowledge that there are some constants in the history of human misery: tiny, itch-provoking bugs, Read more >
Handsome blonde man Charlie Hunnam recently revealed that he wants to focus more on his writing (same, buddy, same). The star of Sons of Anarchy, King Arthur, The Lost City of Z, and The Gentlemen, and current star of the Read more >
Because I contribute heavily to the Lit Hub Instagram account, I spend an unconventional amount of my free time taking screenshots whenever there’s a writer in a movie or TV show. (To my friends and family who have had to Read more >
Daylight Savings Time has gifted us an extra hour… for reading. (That’s how that works, right?) This week brings new books by Haruki Murakami, Kevin Wilson, Lucy Ellmann, and more. * Haruki Murakami, tr. Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, Novelist Read more >
