Nora Roberts is at it again. Just over a month after donating $50,000 to the Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan—which was defunded by voters after librarians refused to remove LGBTQ books—she has given $25,000 to a library in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Read more >
Rick Riordan will be publishing a new Percy Jackson book—the first in 14 years—next September. I only hope that my now-11-year-old won’t be too cool by then for Riordan’s entertainingly contemporary take on Greek mythology (he currently loves everything Riordan’s Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Stephen Buoro’s debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, which will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2023. Here’s how the publisher describes the novel: Andrew Aziza is a Read more >
I can’t recall a wartime leader ever addressing an international book fair while his country is under attack but, hey, it’s already been a hell of a decade, so why not? This coming Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I’m hanging by a thin thread this week, and that thread is the promise of new books by George Saunders, Samanta Schweblin, Fatimah Asghar, and more. * George Saunders, Liberation Day (Random House) “Let’s Read more >
The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize is Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books). (The bookies almost had it.) The announcement was made by Neil MacGregor, Chair of Read more >
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu’s National Book Award-winning satirical novel, is coming to TV. Late last week Variety reported that streaming behemoth Hulu has placed a 10-episode order for the miniseries adaptation, which will star Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley, Crazy Rich Asians) Read more >
Despite the fact that Jared Kushner’s recent memoir Breaking History “reminded [Dwight Garner] of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo,” and the fact that it’s, you know, a book ostensibly written by Jared Kushner, we were not surprised to see Read more >
Tonight, the 2022 winner of the Booker Prize, the biggest literary prize in the UK, will be announced in a ceremony hosted by comedian Sophie Duker and featuring a keynote speech by Dua Lipa. So who will win the £50,000, Read more >
Russian publishers—specifically, an organization called the Russian Book Union (RKC)—are concerned that a new “LGBQT Propaganda” bill could lead to the banning of Russian classics by the likes of Dostoevsky and Bulgakov. According to independent Russian news organization Meduza: …the Read more >
Craig Finn is the lead singer of a band called The Hold Steady and I have always loved his songwriting. Finn is something like a poet laureate of Midwestern malaise, extracting tragicomic pathos from a particular kind of exurban fuckery Read more >
L’Engle-lovin’ theater kids of the world, rejoice: a stage musical of A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most acclaimed and beloved children’s books of the 20th century, is in the works. The adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbury Award-winning 1962 novel Read more >
The T. S. Eliot Prize, the prestigious literary prize that honors new poetry collections in the UK, has announced its shortlist of 10 books. Judges Jean Sprackland, Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson determined the shortlist from a record submission pool Read more >
It started when Cara Caddoo, a film scholar, noticed that a few moments in a century-old film didn’t look quite right. Her questions grew into a major discovery, announced this week by the Library of Congress: that the oldest surviving Read more >
Most of the editors at well-established literary journal Hobart resigned yesterday [UPDATE: the resignation letter was deleted by the new editor but will be reposted soon] over a recent interview published at the site. The interview—with writer Alex Perez—was conducted Read more >
Some exciting spring book news: Random House will publish Curtis Sittenfeld’s seventh novel in April. And as both a Sittenfeld completist and an unabashed rom-com lover (NB: this does not include Netflix rom-coms), I’m very excited by both the novel’s Read more >
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 25 recipients of its 2022 fellowships (colloquially known as the “genius grant”), and as ever, the group represents a fascinating array of people at the tops of their diverse fields. Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Jai Chakrabarti’s A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, forthcoming from Penguin Random House in February 2023. The book, comprised of 14 short stories, details what family means today across cultures, continents, Read more >
In Jordan Kisner’s recent, long profile of Cate Blanchett for The New York Times, there’s a fascinating detail that came and went so quickly that it was almost easy to miss: Blanchett is, apparently, working on a stage version of Lucy Read more >
The Paris Review has announced that Vivian Gornick will receive the 2023 Hadada Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement and is given to “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Mona Read more >
