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 >
Hey look, here’s another very scary trailer for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark adaptation, featuring a cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” by singer and poet Lana Del Rey. Like all right-thinking 90s kids, I was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trailer features music by noted poet Lana Del Rey.">Read more >
Fans of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, rejoice: not only are we getting a TV show based on The Fifth Season and its sequels, but now Green Ronin Publishing will be turning the series into a tabletop RPG to Read more >
All photos courtesy of Hannah Colen. Held in Washington D.C., the Second-Annual Asian American Literature Festival took place this year at multiple locations including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Galleries, and kicked off at Franklin Park down the Read more >
This year, for the first time in over two decades, a slew of work entered the public domain: everything first published in the United States in 1923, to be precise. (And yes, next year we’ll get the goods from 1924.) 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 >
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 >
It’s August, and that means Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) is finally here. The annual celebration (which, if we’re honest, might as well just be yearlong) began in 2014 on the initiative of book blogger Meytal Radzinski. Radzinski grew up speaking Read more >
Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan, will release a memoir by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden titled Permanent Record in September, the publisher announced Thursday. The project has been cloaked in secrecy for the last year; the Associated Press reported Thursday Read more >
Wouldn’t it be nice to hang out on a quiet beach on some exo-planet somewhere, listening to Ursula K. Le Guin? Yes it would. Failing that, don’t forget to tune in to PBS tomorrow night for the documentary Worlds of Read more >
I’ve always loved the tradition of trekking to a beloved author’s grave and leaving gifts for them (and future visitors) to find. Attention has recently turned to the resting place of Arthur Rimbaud, that scraggly-haired tempestuous poet, in the Charleville-Mézières Read more >
Long before funny cat content flooded every single corner of the internet, John Steinbeck, legendary dog person, was writing it for Le Figaro, proving once again that France gets all the good stuff before we do. Steinbeck wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” Read more >
In possibly my favorite adaptation news of the year, Madeline Miller’s 2018 novel Circe—a gorgeous, gripping reimagining of the story of its titular goddess—will be adapted as and eight-episode limited series on HBO Max (a new subscription streaming service, set Circe series is coming to HBO Max.">Read more >
Forty writers, including Ocean Vuong, Ilya Kaminsky, Reza Aslan, and Viet Thanh Nguyen signed a letter urging Congress to address the brutal treatment of migrants at the US-Mexico border. In the letter, published in The Nation, the writers—who all identify as Read more >
A few days ago, Publishers Weekly reported that Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens’ debut novel and the September 2018 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club, topped a million in print sales in 2019. Today, Laura Miller at Slate had a much Where the Crawdads Sing author Delia Owens?">Read more >
Sarah Yerkes didn’t begin writing until she was in her 90s, but last month, at the age of 101, she released her first collection of poems, Days of Blue and Flame. A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Read more >
The “woke liberal colleges will indoctrinate your child” op-ed industrial complex is alive and well at the Wall Street Journal (seriously, how is this still a thing? After this? And this?). Reporting for duty is tech/markets columnist Andy Kessler who’s Wall Street Journal op-ed writer manages simultaneously terrible takes on books and college.">Read more >
I’d call it a remarkable legacy for a poet to have, whose work, over time, time and again, has allowed playwrights and musicians to plumb it for more. Admittedly I’ve read only a little of Langston Hughes’ poetry. He is The Black Clown, a Langston Hughes poem gets a modern revival">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 >
Remember a few years ago when adults discovered coloring books and a wave of new pieces hailed them as a tool for mindfulness and dealing with anxiety? In a move both educational and depressingly efficient, this coloring book on climate change and renewable Read more >
