Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. * Dear Dorothea, A great, close, wonderful friend just passed Read more >
The Center for Fiction has announced the shortlist for its 2022 First Novel Prize, which honors “the best debut fiction of the year” with a $15,000 prize. The seven books on the list were selected by judges Matt Bell, Nicole Read more >
Hundreds of authors have signed a letter released today by Fight for the Future, a nonprofit group that addresses digital rights issues, to express support for libraries’ open access to digital books and for protecting their right to lend books Read more >
Can non-hotties write about hotties?* Yes. This seems to me what 80 percent of all literature is about. But what about hotties writing about non-hotties? In an effort to scientifically prove that yes, yes they can, it has come to Read more >
There’s no shortage of reasons to love libraries, and here’s another: a new survey from the UK shows a significant number of them are planning to serve as “warm banks” this winter for people who need to take shelter from Read more >
If, just yesterday, you happened to find yourself simultaneously hungry for more information about a Try Guy’s infidelity and deeply irritated that you suddenly not only knew what a Try Guy was but also cared, you might be in the market for Read more >
Two books about the legacy of slavery in the US have won the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize. NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ The Love Song of W.E.B. Du Bois, a multi-generational epic that chronicles the journey of one Read more >
TIME published its list of the 100 most influential people of 2022 today, and it includes eight writers from across the worlds of poetry, literary fiction, playwriting, journalism, and academia. Here’s what their peers had to say about them, and Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself, forthcoming from Pantheon in March 2023. In the book, Martin “chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an intimate depiction of the mindset of someone Read more >
Tom Hanks—who previously spent time crushing a beloved indie bookstore with his discount big box chain (which was then probably crushed by Amazon and yes I am talking about his role in You’ve Got Mail and not his real life)—will publish a Read more >
Pull on your cozy reading sweats already! This week, we’re getting new books by Namwali Serpell, Kate Atkinson, Annie Proulx, Hua Hsu, and more. * Namwali Serpell, The Furrows (Hogarth Press) “Its ambiguities and enigmas add up to not more Read more >
Do you enjoy gambling—but, you know, in a cultured way? None of that racetrack nonsense or three card monte for you? Well you’re in luck: the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next Thursday, October 6, and the Read more >
Why the hell has Pennsylvania’s Central York School District banned four books in the Girls Who Code series, which provides models to young women and girls who might not otherwise see themselves as computer programmers? Yes, the nationwide Republican movement Read more >
By the time I read Hilary Mantel’s 1996 review of Kate Atkinson’s debut novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum in the London Review of Books, the novel had been a favorite of mine for over a decade. My mother Read more >
Celebrated British writer Hilary Mantel, best known for her Thomas Cromwell trilogy—Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light—for which she won not one but two Booker Prizes, died from a stroke on Thursday at the age Read more >
Welcome to Life Advice for Book Lovers, Lit Hub’s advice column. You tell me what’s eating you in an email to deardorothea@lithub.com, and I’ll tell you what you should read next. * Hello Dorothea, I am avid reader of Lit Read more >
In a surprising turn of events, Amazon has done the right thing for once! In this case, the right thing is closing a loophole revealed by a TikTok about “reading hacks.” The hack: reading an entire ebook and then returning Read more >
Today, the jurors for the 2022 Cundill History Prize announced their eight-book shortlist, a collection of books that “shows the range and insight of current history writing.” The winner will be awarded $75,000, and two runners up will receive $10,000 Read more >
POLITICO reports today that it has obtained a draft copy of new resolutions, authored by congressional Democrats, that would address book bans and aims to “protect the rights of students to learn.” Juan Perez Jr. writes: The draft House measure Read more >
The Poetry Foundation today announced its Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, recognizing “outstanding young poets” who will each receive $25,800. The fellows are: Tarik Dobbs, author of the chapbook Dancing on the Tarmac and the forthcoming NAZAR Read more >
