If you have unprocessed trauma, $50,000, and a sense of adventure when it comes to your mental health, a new “wellness recovery program” created by Augusten Burroughs—author of the best-selling memoir Running With Scissors—may be right up your alley. The Read more >
Rumors have been confirmed that the internet’s favorite celebrity, Keanu Reeves, will star in an 8-part adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 bestseller, The Devil in the White City, which tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary Read more >
If you’ve got a teen or preteen at home, you’re probably sick to death of hearing them talk about The Banshees of Inisherin, the long-awaited film version of the third installment in Martin McDonagh’s uncompleted 1990s “Aran Islands Trilogy” of plays. Read more >
Another day, another example of grown adults rallying to ban books that could be educational, affirming, and in some cases life-saving for their kids. This one is in west Michigan, where residents of Jamestown Township voted this week to defund their Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Erica Berry’s forthcoming debut Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and What We Tell Ourselves About Fear, which will be published by Flatiron Books on February 21, 2023. Wolfish is an original and probing Read more >
It’s a tale as old as time: a Brazilian writer sets her Kindle aside for a few weeks to work on her own novel, and when she goes back to get a little reading done, finds that the device has Read more >
Melissa Bank, author of the beloved and best-selling linked collections The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot, has died at the age of 61. In a Los Angeles Times review of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing—which Read more >
Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself, but when she tried to get her kid to put on pants he said that pants were scary and then screamed for 35 minutes so I guess, fine! No Read more >
The Institute for Immigration Research has announced its finalists for the New American Voices Award, which recognizes “recently published works that illuminate the complexity of human experience as told by immigrants.” The finalists are Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Daphne Palasi Read more >
A bookseller who fled Hong Kong because of Chinese repression is going to plead his case to Nancy Pelosi during her headline-making visit to Taiwan. Lam Wing-kee, a longtime human rights activist and bookstore owner in Hong Kong, was jailed Read more >
A lawsuit over Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water and New York state prisons is just the latest example of states’ absurd approach to literature in prisons, a phenomenon that PEN America has called “the largest book ban policy Read more >
Break out the gas masks and dust off your Hitler Studies textbooks, Gothamites, because the second most anticipated literary adaptation of the fall (the first being Andrew Dominik’s NC-17 take on Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde) is headed to NYC. Yes, Read more >
The legendary Algonquin Hotel just got a fancy new architectural refurbishment, courtesy the firm Stonehill Taylor. In paying homage to the hotel’s legendary literary heritage, the upgrade features “a 3D art installation made from pages of books that once belonged Read more >
Though James Baldwin is best known and loved for his novels, essays, and oratory, he is not frequently remembered as a great film critic—though, as Noah Berlatsky wrote in The Atlantic, he should be. In 1976, Baldwin published The Devil The Exorcist.">Read more >
Just look at them: all these new books, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and waiting for you to give them a good home. They promise to make excellent company. * Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different (Viking) “A bildungsroman, a Read more >
Finally: community you can enjoy from your couch! * In Conversation: Michelle Tea and Torrey Peters August 1 (tonight!) @ 7pm EST Michelle Tea’s latest, Knocking Myself Up, hits shelves tomorrow. Tonight, you can see her in conversation with Torrey Peters Read more >
As you all undoubtedly know, Britney Spears landed a $15 million book deal with Simon & Schuster earlier this year. Her untitled memoir is apparently already finished(!) and her team was vying for a January 2023 release date… until the Read more >
Stephen King is set to testify on behalf of the Department of Justice against the proposed merger (acquisition?) of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. King, who is published by Scribner, an S&S imprint, is likely to articulate one Read more >
Yep, you guessed it: “Barefoot Bookseller,” the greatest job in the literary world, is once again accepting applications. Would you like to run a bookstore on a desert island in the Maldives for a year? What if I told you Read more >
The Princess Diaries was first released on this day in 2001, and because it’s based on a book, that officially means I can write about it for literary hub dot com and no one can stop me. My fellow ’90s Read more >
