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 >
Man, people make fun of chick lit a lot! I get it—often products (including books) are marketed to women in an insulting way, and I think the criticism of chick lit is often more about the marketing than about the Read more >
Places of Poetry, an interactive online mapping project, has gathered more than 2,000 poems pinned to locations in England and Wales that correspond to them. Poet Paul Farley and Andrew McRae of the University of Exeter, who are leading the Read more >
If you’re like me, I’m guessing that reading the entire 448-page Mueller report—as important as it is—is not at the very top of your 2019 summer to-do list, and in fact probably comes after literally every single other thing you Read more >
Good news for all fans of high quality literary crime fiction out there: this morning, Laura Lippman and her publisher, William Morrow, announced that the prize-winning crime novelist has inked a five (5) book deal, which includes three new novels, Read more >
This morning, the Whiting Foundation has announced the winners of the second annual Literary Magazine Prizes, which are given “for superb publishing, advocating for writers, and strengthening the literary community.” This year, the number of awards was increased from three Read more >
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Colson Whitehead’s new book, The Nickel Boys, came out yesterday. Inspired by the horrific true story of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, an institution in Florida that was once the largest juvenile The Nickel Boys too hard to read? Pair it with lemonade and summery treats.">Read more >
Powell’s employees were among a group on Monday night that protested a reading at the bookstore by Blake Nelson, a Portland author whose recent work and public statements have drawn on extremist right-wing rhetoric. Nelson’s newest book, The Red Pill—published The Red Pill.">Read more >
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that the book is always better than the movie (or, in this case, the television show). That’s just the natural order of things. There are rare exceptions, of course, and perhaps the best way Read more >
Though books have been supplying the movie and tv industries with storylines since the dawn of the talkie, the rise of streaming content over the last five years has created a desperate need for more (MORE we scream as we Read more >
With robust programming already this year, 1455 (previously Virginia Center for Literary Arts, or VCLA) continues to establish the Shenandoah Valley as a hotbed of creativity and community. After the success of 1455’s monthly Author Series at Handley Library and Read more >
Katy Simpson Smith, Lit Hub contributor and the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835 and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men, has a new novel out in March next year; we The Everlasting.">Read more >
In more “thing becomes other thing” news, Sleeping Beauties, the more-than-700-page fantasy novel that Stephen King wrote with his son, Owen, is being adapted into a 10-part comic book series. The novel imagines a world in which all the women in Sleeping Beauties is becoming a comic book series.">Read more >
Sometimes the greatest secrets are right under our noses, in shuttered backrooms or buried beneath layers of decades-old junk. One researcher at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, has discovered a treasure likely to appeal to epistolary and classical fanatics Read more >
Last night, Variety reported that Lakeith Stanfield (also known as the actual best part of Atlanta, there I said it, don’t @ me) to star in a feature film adaptation of Kwame Onwuachi’s Notes From a Young Black Chef—which is 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 >
IFC has released the trailer for Vita and Virginia, tells the story of Virginia Woolf’s love affair with Vita Sackville-West (and if the trailer is any indication, their mutual love affair with headbands). Also featured: sexy smiles, greenhouse flirting, drowning foreshadowing, Vita and Virginia trailer is full of literary flirting and headbands.">Read more >
The New Republic’s Emily Atkin left work early last Friday for a weekend in the woods of West Virginia, where she had no cell service. She had earned a vacation. After months of work, she and her colleagues were closing Read more >
In solidarity with the Amazon Strike—in which Amazon warehouse workers in a suburb of Minneapolis are striking to protest their terrible working conditions (unions of Amazon workers in Europe have staged strikes on Prime Days in the past, but the Read more >
Here’s a surprisingly low-stakes and silly story about a Christian publisher! The Massachusetts-based, pragmatically-named Christian book distributor, Christian Book Distributors, had to change its name to Christianbook due to all the calls it was getting from people looking for CBD, Read more >
