Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” The ten books below are the ones our readers searched for most this week—including Sarah M. Broom’s family memoir, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino’s debut essay collection, and Orange Prize-winner Téa Obreht’s Read more >
This afternoon, on Facebook, President Barack Obama posted one of his periodic reading lists, updating us all on the books—new and old—that he’s been reading and enjoying this summer. His list, in full, is below: It’s August, so I wanted Read more >
Abruptly-shuttered Pacific Standard is, in its final breaths, recommending some fall reading material in a list from contributing editor Maris Kreizman along with other contributors to the magazine. Senior editor Ted Scheinman writes, “While Pacific Standard won’t be around in the Read more >
We used to think of id-bearing moments like this as the mask slipping off, but when acting director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli suggested yesterday that Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”—as much a part of American Read more >
Today, Variety reported that Netflix has won the rights to Pyros, a science-fiction story based on Thomas Pierce’s flash fiction piece “Tardy Man,” which appeared in the New Yorker last August. Reese Witherspoon, the Savior of All Literature herself, is attached 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 >
At my elementary school, we had something called Silent Sustained Reading (SSR), a time during which we all sat around the classroom reading whatever books we wanted in a silent and sustained manner. It turns out, you can recreate the Read more >
Here’s a strange one: Amazon has run up against a potentially pretty significant impediment to their upcoming big budget adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Apparently, the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien has refused the retail and streaming behemoth permission to Read more >
I don’t know about you, but I miss the ’80s. Everything was fine in the ’80s. (I mean, it wasn’t, but I personally didn’t know that at the time.) Plus, we were all obsessed with the extravagant, delightful, “sizzle novelist” Read more >
Hello from Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “rotten tomatoes for books!” How It Works: Every day, our staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. Each Read more >
If you love books as much as you claim to love books on Twitter, maybe you should get off Twitter and read more books! How many more books? Ask this horrifying new calculator from Omnicalculator, which takes will tell you 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 >
David Berman, songwriter and poet (and cartoonist), died yesterday at the age of 52. Though he never reached the widespread acclaim of Stephen Malkmus, his collaborator in the band Silver Jews, Berman was beloved to a generation of music fans Read more >
Toni Morrison, one of our very greatest American writers, died this week at the age of 88. Fittingly, the remembrances and tributes have been many, and they have also only just begun. One of them will grace the cover of New Yorker.">Read more >
It feels like it’s been one of the worst weeks in a while and it’s barely Thursday. So I present to you this collection of 32 full-on dad-joke puns by poets Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker, in honor of the Read more >
The first time I ever encountered Toni Morrison in person was at a reading at The Riverside Church in Harlem, in the mid-1990s, not long after she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. I presented her with my copy of Beloved meant to me took 20 years.">Read more >
Fleabag is over, but if your thirst for Fleabag-adjacent content is unslakeable, you’re in luck! Fleabag: The Scriptures (great title) will be published by Ballantine on November 5 of this year. The book will feature scripts from both seasons of the show, Fleabag book.">Read more >
The American Library Association has received a petition signed by 100,000 people protesting its support for Drag Queen Story Hour, a movement of queer-affirming storytelling events at libraries, bookstores, schools, and other venues around the country. LifeSiteNews, a right-wing website Read more >
French publisher Editions de Fallois has announced that it will publish a collection of novellas and short stories by Marcel Proust, who you might remember from his very long, seven-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Read more >
Toni Morrison, the prolific author of such classics as Beloved and Song of Solomon, died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88 years old. Morrison had an outsized influence on American letters for decades, culminating in 1993 when Read more >
