Today in things that probably didn’t really need to be proven: a group of psychology researchers has found that reading books to children in which female characters excel in math and science helps dismantle gender-based stereotypes. According to Bob Yirka of Read more >
Hey, nerds. Do you have more books than you do friends? Do you ever find yourself explaining the plot of the novel you’re reading to your dog? Are you looking for that special someone to lie next to you in Read more >
These days, we’re hanging by a thin thread, and that thread is Tuesdays: the day new books grace us with their presence. * Jane Campbell, Cat Brushing (Grove Press) “The 13 exquisitely drawn short stories in the collection are woven Read more >
Some news for literary art collectors, bookish home chefs, and acquisitive richies, generally: Joan Didion’s estate is headed to auction. The sale, “An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion,” hosted by Stair Galleries, will take place on Read more >
Three days after an assailant attacked Salman Rushdie during an appearance in western New York, the acclaimed author is recovering but still in critical condition, according to his family and agent. Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s agent, said shortly after the attack Read more >
According to the Associated Press, Salman Rushdie was stabbed at a Chautauqua, NY event where he was set to deliver a lecture: An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or Read more >
Yesterday, Warner Bros. UK released a trailer for Emily, their new Emily Brontë biopic, which stars Sex Education’s Emma Mackey and was written and directed by actor Frances O’Connor in her directorial debut. It will not be entirely true to Read more >
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 >
