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 >
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 >
