This morning, feeling dissolute and literary, as I often do, I was casting about the internet for inspiration, only to stumble upon my weekend plans: getting “Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron,” or rather, playing this hilarious one-page RPG Read more >
In the confusing haze of time that is 2022, it seems like both yesterday and eons ago that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen published Disloyal, a tell-all about his time with, as the publisher’s copy for the book describes it, Read more >
She-Hulk and Euron Greyjoy are your new Vera and Vladimir Nabokov, just as my tastefully erotic internet fan fiction predicted. Yes, it was announced this week that Emmy-winning Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black, She-Hulk) will star in and executive produce Invitation Read more >
Why do we care that one of America’s preeminent (risk-taking? publicity-canny?) novelists is selling a bunch of random stuff on the Internet? Whatever your opinion of Lapvona or My Year of Rest and Relaxation or the genuinely weird McGlue, Ottessa Read more >
More than two dozen new Little Free Libraries will bring books to community gardens in all five boroughs of New York City, Serena Tara of Thrillist reports. The new installations are a project of Little Free Library, the nonprofit that Read more >
How to explain fan fiction to literary people? Well, first off, acknowledge that those among us who’ve dipped our toes into the charming world of Archive of Our Own have then quickly found ourselves fully immersed and all the better Read more >
Late-capitalist “efficiency culture” has been ruining things for almost 20 years now: I truly do not care how tech CEOs spend every 5-minute interval of their 20-hour days maximizing their brain and body potential. (I read on the toilet sometimes… Read more >
Though I love a good Writer Day Job, and am currently in the middle of Ripley Under Ground, I had no idea until this morning that Patricia Highsmith worked as a comic book scriptwriter from 1942-48. Highsmith initially worked in Read more >
In 2012, Sherlock Holmes was officially inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records as the human literary character most frequently portrayed on film and television: a whopping 254 times, beating out the next most popular character, Hamlet, by 48 Read more >
The Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has been denied entry to Israel to interview for the U.S. visa he needs to return to his graduate program at Syracuse University. As reported by Inside Higher Ed earlier today: Abu Toha, who said he Read more >
As Lit Hub’s resident Jonathan Franzen scholar (*fangirl to a slightly embarrassing degree), I’m always on the lookout for good timely content about The Corrections. Luckily, The Bear, a show that has inspired a frankly indecent number of think-pieces (this one, for Read more >
Working adjacent to the publishing industry—as we do here at Lit Hub dot com—can sometimes leave you feeling a bit cynical about the whole “transcendent power of literature” thing, so it’s nice to come across news items like the following. Read more >
This is not a drill! The glorious manor from BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is on the market! For the low, low price of £6 million, you can live in a place where Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle once Read more >
Last week, Bridge Michigan reported that the Patmos Library in Jamestown Township, Michigan, had been defunded after a small group of residents tried, and failed, to have several books with LGBTQ themes removed. Now, a fundraising effort to help the library Read more >
What is the absolute maximum number of books one can fit into a single Joan Didion tote? Asking for a friend! * Belinda Huijuan Tang, A Map for the Missing (Penguin Press) “…spectacular … A breathtaking portrait of the regret Read more >
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC)—which helps bookstore owners and employees with unforeseen emergency financial needs—is this week urging people to donate money to help a number of flood-ravaged bookstores in St. Louis and eastern Kentucky. Recent torrential rains in Read more >
A school district in Florida is trying a new, insidious way to limit students’ consumption of books that discuss queerness and race: adding a warning label. The label now appears on more than 100 books in Collier County Public Schools Read more >
We are officially living in the future. Our marker for this is the fact that George Jetson was apparently born in July of 2022, so I’d just like to know: where is my robot maid? I thought that by now, Read more >
Wow. According to this excerpt posted at The New Yorker this morning, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Donald Trump, was genuinely worried that the then-president was using Hitler as a role model for acquiring Read more >
It seems like we’re all in a bad mood these days. After all, the planet is burning, democracy is crumbling, everyone is pivoting to video (again). Can a book make you feel better? Maybe, maybe not—but it can at least Read more >
