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25 new books out today!

It’s another Tuesday, and this means that the shelves are packed, once again, with exciting new offerings. Below, you’ll find brand-new fiction and intriguing translations of lesser-known novels; new collections of poetry; and a wide range of memoirs and conversation-starting Read more >

By Gabrielle Bellot

Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

Today in good news, the American Booksellers Association announced that membership is at its highest level in 20 years. Per reporting by Hillel Italie at the Associated Press: The ABA added 173 members last year, and now has 2,185 bookstore Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

See the cover for Alissa Hattman's Sift

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Alissa Hattman’s Sift, which will be published by The 3rd Thing in September. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Two women set out through the haze of social Read more >

By Literary Hub

One great short story to read today: Charles Yu's "Standard Loneliness Package."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Only in Florida: couple steals rare books, vintage comics, AND endangered tortoises.

It’s no wonder that book theft is on the rise in Florida, seeing as how Governor Ron DeSantis seems hellbent on making reading as hard as possible. So is anyone surprised a Florida couple (composed of a Florida Man and Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

One great short story to read today: Steven Millhauser's "Miracle Polish."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

Hong Kong neck-and-neck with Florida in bookbanning competition.

Citing the danger of “unhealthy ideas” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is defending the clandestine removal of library books about the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, which saw upwards of a thousand deaths (estimates vary). All Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

We finally have a trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon.

Yes, after months, nay, years, of this single frame of Leo DiCaprio looking pensive at an old-timey dinner table being the sole visual representation of perhaps the most anticipated film of this still-young decade, Leo and Marty have finally released Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Neil Gaiman put his pencil down to support the WGA strike.

Solidarity to members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) East and West! ✊ The strike, which is now two weeks along, is perhaps the last stand against artists being replaced by AI bots, and one that will benefit labor Read more >

By Janet Manley

One great short story to read today:
ZZ Packer's "Brownies."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

One great short story to read today: Grace Paley's "A Conversation with My Father."

According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free to read online, every (work) day Read more >

By Emily Temple

A Hemingway film adaptation with Liev Schreiber and Josh Hutcherson is headed our way.

News from the Cannes Film Festival: An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel (his last one) Across the River and Into the Trees has found a distributor in Bleeker Street. The novel centers on Colonel Richard Cantwell, a 50-year-old US Army Read more >

By Janet Manley

Kirk Cameron, aka right-wing Raffi, has a new kids' book for Pride Month.

Kirk Cameron has had a tough year, not unlike poor, pregnant Mary. “We tried to go to libraries across the country and we’ve been turned away,” he told a church gathering this week in Charlotte, N.C., of touring his conservative Read more >

By Janet Manley

Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Grief is the Thing With Feathers.

Benedict Cumberbatch—the Oscar-nominated star of Power of the Dog, The Imitation Game, and Patrick Melrose, as well as all of those epilepsy-inducing Marvel movies—has signed on to play the lead (not the crow) in an upcoming film adaptation of Max Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

Here are the guest editors (and covers!) for the Best American Series 2023.

Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Read more >

By Literary Hub

Watch Ben Whishaw read Seamus Heaney's translation of "The Names of the Hare."

Earlier this month, at 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center, actor Ben Whishaw performed a selection of work from The Translations of Seamus Heaney, edited by Marco Sonzogni, introducing the readings in a script written by Colm Tóibín. The evening included this riveting Read more >

By Emily Temple