Remember Jeremy Meeks, aka “Prison Bae”? Sure you do. The former Crip and current fashion model became a viral sensation back in 2014 when the Stockton Police Department posted his extremely handsome mugshot on Facebook. Within 24 hours Meeks’ photo Read more >
Ada Limón will be the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the United States, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. “Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Hayden said in a statement. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us Read more >
Okay, maybe I say this every Tuesday, but I really, really mean it today: we’ve got a good book bounty this week, folks. * K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want (One World) “Relationships between women—familial, beloved, strange, imagined—dominate queer Taiwanese American Read more >
Our reproductive rights are being stripped away, but perhaps this bit of nice news will help: there are some good-hearted writers doing what they can to help the situation. The Authors for Abortion Access are having an auction (which starts Read more >
If it ever was, I mean. But let’s back up. Today, Esquire published a list of 80 Books Every Man Should Read, which may ring some bells if you too are an ancient blogger/reader of book lists—it’s an update to Read more >
In the back of my favorite bookstore in Brooklyn, there’s a wall covered in all the random things the employees have found in the used books they sell: photos, newspaper clippings, notes, receipts, pressed flowers, etc. It’s a fascinating little Read more >
Yep, as the guy in your MFA already knows, turns out reading literary fiction is better for you than reading other kinds of fiction—especially if you grew up doing it. In a new paper published this week in the Personality Read more >
Well, here’s something to distract us from the terrifyingly rapid collapse of the house of straw that is America! A reality competition show about the most interesting people on earth [citation needed]: WRITERS. That’s right—all our Twitter-based jokes about America’s Read more >
It’s not great when half the state legislatures in the country continue to test how far they can go with crypto-fascist legislation—but with an extremist Supreme Court on your side, why not give it a shot, right? In what seems Read more >
In June, award-winning indie publisher Graywolf Press announced the retirement of Fiona McCrae, who had served as Director and Publisher of the Minneapolis nonprofit for twenty-eight years. Since then, the rest of the wolves have been on the lookout for Read more >
If you’ve been on Twitter over the past couple of days, you’ve likely seen a lot of random, cool art. Especially if you’re following Brandon Taylor. The source of it all is DALL•E, an “AI model generating images from any prompt!” Read more >
If you’re the parent, guardian, or frequent caretaker of young children, you quickly learn that one of your primary tasks—up there with trying to decipher the cause of an out-of-nowhere screaming fit and explaining why we don’t throw rocks at Read more >
Based on the absolute all-universe success of their original series, Stranger Things, The Duffer Brothers are starting their own production company (Upside Down, lol). One of their first projects will be adapting Stephen King and Peter Straub’s 1984 fantasy novel, Read more >
Hrishikesh Hirway is just one of those people who seems to be excellent at whatever he does: from his music projects to his slate of shows, including the incredible Song Exploder (which became a series for Netflix), he’s always developing Read more >
This week, a new dual English and Sanskrit edition of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote will be presented at the Instituto Cervantes in Delhi, after the original translation languished untouched for almost sixty years in a Harvard University library. The Read more >
It is with delight and despair that I draw your attention to the modern-day hermit “discovered” over the weekend in a cave in Sichuan province, China, just hanging out, reading books, and smoking cigarettes. I am delighted, of course, that Read more >
Did you know Lit Hub has a very fun film podcast called Open Form, hosted by Mychal Denzel Smith, in which some of your favorite writers geek out (or wax poetic, or critique, whatever the case may be) about a Read more >
Unionized workers at HarperCollins have voted by an overwhelming majority to authorize a one-day strike against their employer as contract disputes continue. More 99 percent of the bargaining unit—which belongs to Local 2110 of the UAW and is comprised of Read more >
Fun fact: toward the end of his life, William Faulkner’s favorite television show was an NBC sitcom about two very silly cops, Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne AKA Herman Munster), tasked with patrolling the fictional Read more >
Hope you all had a lovely long weekend! More importantly: hope you’re all excited for the new books coming out today! * Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori, Life Ceremony (Grove Press) “[A] series of funhouse mirrors, each story in Read more >
