Today, the National Book Foundation announced their finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. Five winners will be selected from the twenty-five finalists and announced on Wednesday, November Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s Monstrilio, a “literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people who love him in Read more >
There’s a lot to look forward to in this week’s book bounty: new titles from Celeste Ng, Elizabeth McCracken, Orhan Pamuk, and more. Happy reading! * Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press) “With a chilling premise and frequently stunning Read more >
German super-discount chain Aldi got called out on Twitter for selling Schindler’s List as a great read for “relaxing” and “unwinding” while on holiday, “a gripping story that will have you hooked as your body soaks in those sun rays.” Read more >
Ah, paperbacks. So soft and comforting. So nice to curl up with. (No hard edges!) This month sees the publication of paperbacks from Jonathan Franzen, Rebecca Solnit, Patrick Radden Keefe, Louise Glück, and more. Get cozy. * Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads Read more >
That’s the same perilous American wilderness that almost killed Leonardo DiCaprio, except 200 years younger, sprier and, one would assume, significantly more bear-ful. Now, I don’t know how many bears feature in three-time National Book Award finalist, Guggenheim fellow, and Read more >
Ah, college. Just a handful of blessèd years in which to wear thrifted cardigans, leave your hair unwashed, carry around an underlined copy of White Noise, and close your eyes in the dance party when “All My Friends” comes on, Read more >
In a predictable—but nevertheless horrifying—extension of the ongoing wave of book bans across the country (not to mention the bomb threats to a children’s hospital for providing gender-affirming healthcare), Motherboard has reported that at least a dozen public libraries across Read more >
The Rumors are true! Yesterday, Lizzo became the first and only person on the planet to play this centuries’ old (!) crystal (!!) flute. It’s About Damn Time. This instrument is from 1813, and it belonged to our fourth President, 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. * 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 >
