Today is the 61st anniversary of the death of Mississippi’s marquee modernist and the granddaddy of Southern Gothic literature: William Cuthbert Faulkner. One of the most garlanded authors in the history of American letters (with a Nobel, two Pulitzers, and Read more >
This week, AIGA, the professional association for design, announced the winners of their annual 50 Books | 50 Covers competition, which this year evaluated 487 entries from 27 countries. “The jury and I were very impressed with both the quantity Read more >
It’s the 4th of July (although you’ll likely be reading this a day later), and, as befits a complicated day that some celebrate, some protest, and others simply relax on while fireworks blossom in the night, there’s a myriad of Read more >
Fans of the publisher World Editions, which has brought translations of work by Maryse Condé, Amin Maalouf, Pilar Quintana, Jaap Robben and Zhang Yueran to English-language audiences, has found a new owner—none other than the US director Christine Swedowsky. A Read more >
July is just a day away, and, if that seems startling in its suddenness, what shouldn’t be surprising is that a new month is bringing with it a fantastic new list of books in paperback. Below, you’ll find a myriad Read more >
I’m going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There’s something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I’ll never really be Read more >
The dizzying rise of AI and machine-learning in the last year, made manifest in the popular consciousness by ChatGPT, has followed a familiar pattern. Years (decades!) of specialized research grinds forward, yielding interesting but not necessarily groundbreaking results, until the Read more >
The Supreme Court of the United States of America sure know how to set the mood for summer, setting their flat legal pavlovas and soggy pasta salads onto the picnic table just in time for the Fourth of July. Today, Read more >
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Thunder Song, an essay collection from Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe—author of Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk—coming from Counterpoint next spring. Here’s some more about the book from Read more >
You might be a person of letters, but has an internationally renowned body deemed you the “ambassador of gibberish?” If not, you have something to work toward. The honorific was delivered to children’s author Michael Rosen from poet Raymond Antrobus, Read more >
As most people reading this website are aware, the literary media has been in steady decline for the last two decades. So in December 2022, when USA Today announced it was putting its bestseller list “on hiatus”—internet parlance for “dead Read more >
Aubrey Graham has released a book of poetry with Kenza Samir, which in straight prose translates roughly to: Drake’s poetry chapbook is outttttttt! Kenza Samir is a songwriter who has been credited on several Drake albums. You can order Titles Read more >
It’s the 27th, which means that June, joltingly, is nearing its end. But with a new week comes a new slew of exciting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (and, just as excitingly, books that bend the borders of genre). Below, you’ll Read more >
A new “oldest book in the world” has been discovered! And it’s about tax records pertaining to beer and olive oil. Researchers at Special Collections at Graz University Library recently… …came across an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century BC Read more >
The production company Archewell, run by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, is apparently in talks with Netflix over a scripted show Bad Manners, centered on Miss Havisham pre-Great Expectations, when she was just a difficult Read more >
Haruki Murakami famously became a writer at a baseball game. It was April 1978, the Yakult Swallows against the Hiroshima Carp at Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium. “I think Hiroshima’s starting pitcher that day was Yoshiro Sotokoba,” Murakami wrote. Yakult countered with Read more >
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