Befitting a writer of his propulsive imagination, this Ray Bradbury statue—unveiled on Thursday outside Waukegan Public Library, where the young Bradbury cultivated his passion for literature—is no staid, austere piece of metalwork. You’ll find no tweed blazers or grave looks Dr. Strangelove-style.">Read more >
Star quarterback Andrew Luck shocked the big, loud world of NFL football over the weekend by announcing his retirement at age 29. With what seemed an equal measure of resolve and weariness Luck cited injuries as the main reason for Read more >
Here at literary website and widget factory Lit Hub dot com, I keep an hourly eye on traffic because, uh, traffic is also readers, and when you publish things you want people to read them (with this formula we will Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
Some movie projects are doomed. It sure seemed, for a while, that Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn was one of those—Norton optioned the novel in 1999, when it was published, got New Line Cinema on board, and Motherless Brooklyn actually looks great.">Read more >
Ray Bradbury was born on this day in 1920. You know him: the renowned sci-fi and fantasy writer. You probably read Fahrenheit 451 in high school. But did you know that he tried to write for The Twilight Zone? And that he Read more >
lol. jk. My dude has never been to the beach. Dave’s actual Top 5 list (according to Far Out magazine) is, of course, a throughly Lynchian quintet of unheimlich surrealism, existentialist historical fiction, disturbing found photography, hundred-year-old art criticism, and auteur Read more >
Since 1948—back when artist types moved to the East End of Long Island because it was cheap!—the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Koonig, Barney Rosset, James Jones, Kurt Vonnegut, and many, many more famous people (Lauren Bacall and Yogi Read more >
Every once in a while, something is just nice—like this story about Kelli Dunaway, a newly elected St. Louis County councilwoman, taking her oath of office on the Dr. Seuss classic Oh, The Places You’ll Go! Another lovely detail: her two Oh, The Places You'll Go!">Read more >
You’ve probably heard of ASMR—that soothing, tingling feeling that some of us get in response to certain sounds or sensations, and which has spawned a universe of YouTube videos, some of them inspired by the original “ASMRtist,” Bob Ross. Yeah, Read more >
Welcome back to the 90s. (And, I guess, the early 2000s.) As Variety reports, there is officially a fourth Matrix film in the works, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss back in the saddle as Neo and Trinity. Lana Wachowski will The Matrix 4 is happening, and Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell wrote the script.">Read more >
Because of course Gwyneth Paltrow has a “book curator,” a title that sounds both utterly pretentious (that would be the “curator”) and reeeeeeeally stupid, which is the sweet spot of Extreme Wealth Culture. (Shoutout Town & Country!) And as is Read more >
Are you super sick of the news? So is NPR! It published a list, based on votes from more than 7,000 people, of the funniest books as selected by readers, hopefully some of which can help us all counter a Read more >
Well this is a happy Hollywood mad lib: HBO Max has announced that Meryl Streep will star in Steven Soderbergh’s next project, Let Them All Talk, a lit-world cruise drama (please let this become a niche genre) written by the Read more >
Every week, a new crop of great new books hit the shelves. If we could read them all, we would, but since time is finite and so is the human capacity for page-turning, here are a few of the ones Read more >
Celebrated British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing has been widely praised for her decision to split her James Tate Black award winnings with her fellow shortlisted authors. “I said in Crudo that competition has no place in art and Read more >
The winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards—one of science fiction and fantasy’s most prestigious awards, decided by the popular vote of Worldcon members—were presented last night at a ceremony at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland. Congratulations Read more >
The great thing about editing a website is that even though you tell yourself you have a pretty good idea of what’s going to do well, you are very often wrong. In that spirit of confusion and happy accident, here Read more >
My personal form of astrology is to anxiously trawl Publishers Marketplace every week. No, wait, hear me out: it’s how I can tell the only future that matters: which books I will be reading a year and a half from now. Also, Read more >
Every so often, we get a bit of the future that looks more like the hoverboards we were promised and less like the nightmare Octavia Butler predicted. Such is the case with the news that Chinese search engine Sogou is using Read more >
