20 new books out today!
The wheel of the year is turning, as it always does, beginning its slow shift from summer to the fall. If you’re unsure of how to spend the last days of August, rest assured that even if seasons always shift, Read more >
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Read the first reviews of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.
In 1966, after more than a quarter century in obscurity, the Dominica-born British author Jean Rhys published what is now considered to be her masterpiece. Wide Sargasso Sea is an astonishing, hallucinatory fantasy about the early life, and eventual psychological disintegration, Read more >
By Dan Sheehan
Which European city appears the most often in literature?
If you guessed London, you’re right—London is mentioned at least three times more often than any other European city. (Wonder why?) As Travel Daily reports, a digital printing company called Aura Print has apparently processed the entire Google Books database Read more >
By Emily Temple
22 new books out today!
It’s August 22nd, and, in a delightful coincidence, I have twenty-two brand-new books to recommend checking out, one for each day of the month that’s passed so far. This week, you’ll find an especially robust showing of nonfiction, as well Read more >
By Gabrielle Bellot
Exclusive: See the cover for Emily Raboteau's next book, Lessons for Survival.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Emily Raboteau’s forthcoming book, Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “The Apocalypse”, in which she “uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice—and what it Read more >
By Literary Hub
Read the very first reviews of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club.
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk’s era-defining debut novel about a load of disaffected men beating the bejesus out of each other in order to feel alive, was first published twenty-seven years ago today. The book rapidly gained a cult following, was Read more >
By Dan Sheehan
Author and friend of the fam Michael Lewis weighed in on The Blind Side legal petition.
Former offensive lineman Michael Oher’s petition against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy states that he made no money from Michael Lewis’ 2006 book The Blind Side or the 2009 film adaptation. The movie starred Sandra Bullock, was optioned for $250,000 Read more >
By Janet Manley
In The Other Black Girl trailer, publishing is a scary biz.
When former assistant editor Zakiya Dalila Harris started her novel about the publishing business, she was inspired in part by Jordan Peele’s horror-turned-excavation of racism Get Out. The resulting book, The Other Black Girl, was in a 14-way bidding way, and Read more >
By Janet Manley
A brand new Tana French novel is coming your way this spring.
Lovers of moody literary mysteries rejoice: Tana French has announced her next book. The Hunter, which will be published by Viking on March 5, 2024, is a sequel to 2020’s “Irish Western” The Searcher, which was set in a small Read more >
By Emily Temple
Vermont's Lt. Gov. is doing a reading tour of banned books, moving him to the top of our Lt. Gov list.
What does a lieutenant governor do? Stand in for the governor when they’re out of state, certainly, but the rest of the time it’s more of a Veep-esque listening tour full of corndog-eating, posing with horses, and riding in monster Read more >
By Janet Manley
Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger's forthcoming essay collection, First Love.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lilly Dancyger’s forthcoming essay collection about female friendship, First Love, which will be published by The Dial Press in May. Here’s a bit more about the book from the publisher: When Read more >
By Literary Hub
Announcing the inaugural cohort of National Book Foundation Teacher Fellows.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of the NBF Teacher Fellowship, “a new initiative to support and celebrate 6th-12th grade teachers using innovative methods to make reading for pleasure a part of their students’ school day experience.” Read more >
By Literary Hub
Now AI is helping ban books.
AI can’t guarantee that it won’t play porn when you ask it to play a children’s song. It can’t tell whether someone’s eyes are open in a photo. It can’t deliver a case history without inventing case law. And yet! Read more >
By Janet Manley
How meme culture changed comedy writing.
Do memes live rent-free in your head? The Workaholic writers’ room famously kept whiteboards of “over-done jokes” that were verboten. From edge to edge, you can find bits of brain decay dating back several years like rings on the brittle Read more >
By Janet Manley
Exclusive: See the cover for Wei Tchou's experimental memoir Little Seed.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Wei Tchou’s Little Seed, “an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author’s relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns,” which will Read more >
By Literary Hub
26 new books out today!
The middle of August is here, and, that means that we have at least two things to look forward to: a few more weeks of summer, and this week’s release of a veritable cornucopia of new, exciting books to read Read more >
