Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse was first published on May 5, 1927. Fun Facts: It was chosen by TIME as one of the best English-language novels since 1923… the beginning of TIME. And a few years ago, Margaret Atwood published a To the Lighthouse was published 92 years ago yesterday.">Read more >
We love teachers at Lit Hub. So in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, hear from 10 teachers about what brought them to the profession, the challenges of classroom life, and their work as writers: * After a student told her Read more >
Because Google’s recently released AI poem generator, PoemPortraits, wouldn’t let me mess around with words like “Winterfell” or “Night King,” I decided to make a poem using four words I don’t particularly like: scrunch, dank, smarmy, and orc. The idea Read more >
Australian writer Mandy Sayer has written an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald lamenting the loss of libraries as “hallowed sanctuaries of silence and solitude.” Sayer says she grew up poor, and that her 1970s childhood libraries were a Read more >
It’s that time of year again: the Met Gala, the fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute and Anna Wintour’s annual setup for every guest except Rihanna to fail. This year’s theme is Camp: Notes on Fashion, a nod to Susan 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 Read more >
Today, FSG shared the cover from André Aciman’s forthcoming Find Me, the sequel to his beloved Call Me By Your Name,” which was designed by Rodrigo Corral. Of the cover, Aciman said: “The colors of the buildings couldn’t have been Call Me By Your Name">Read more >
Just Kids—the National Book Award-winning memoir by beloved rock star, writer, and punk poet laureate of New York City, Patti Smith—has been crowned the One Book, One New York winner for 2019. “In the award-winning Just Kids, Smith offers a Just Kids wins One Book, One New York for 2019">Read more >
“Buy a self-published children’s book” is admittedly not at the top of the list when it comes to ways to gain political influence, and yet that’s the emerging picture in Baltimore, where Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned yesterday after controversy from Read more >
New York Magazine reports that Billy McFarland, Fyre Festival scammer and former friend of Ja Rule, has written a memoir. McFarland is currently in prison (because of the scams), and sent the handwritten pages of the memoir (Promythus: The God Read more >
Oh poets, why must you always be so… poety. The year was 1810 and the poet in question was a dreamy 22-year-old Lord Byron, who was taking a “world” tour on the heels of his first success back home in Read more >
Young Gen Xers and old Millenials are rejoicing on Twitter as Liz Phair just announced (late last night) that her memoir, Horror Stories, now has a cover and pub date (October 8). This is very important news to a *particular Read more >
I was in the Strand the other day, overstimulated and sort of bumping against tables and people and unable to focus on any one book, possibly because they were all breathtaking, unflinching, searingly witty-yet-emotionally penetrating tours de force, each written Read more >
According to The New York Times, Woody Allen has been shopping a memoir around to publishing houses—but turns out they have some morals after all, because no one’s biting. In fact, he’s so “toxic” that some of them wouldn’t even read Read more >
Yes, it’s true. When Edna St. Vincent Millay went on vacation to Sanibel Island, Florida, on this day in 1936, she naturally brought her manuscript-in-progress—years in the making—along with her. She had her luggage sent up to her room and Read more >
Not to brag, but I was given one of the Joan Didion Lit Hub tote bags in the early days at AWP Minneapolis in 2015. It’s a great tote, strong and sturdy. But I didn’t have it very long. Less Read more >
Brilliant and dashing novel-writer/essayist/very-good-reader Viet Thanh Nguyen is using his Twitter power for good and not evil by recommending a book a day for Asian Pacific Heritage Month (which is now, people). The first two recs are Jessica Hagedorn’s Dog Read more >
If you are unfamiliar with the Surrealist parlor game art form of the Exquisite Corpse*, MCD is offering you an introduction of sorts, as they’ve asked their writers to contribute daily bursts of fiction, each one in the sequence written Read more >
“Navigating a white, male world was not threatening—it wasn’t even interesting,” says your queen and mine Toni Morrison in this trailer for a new documentary about her life, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. “I was more interesting than they were. And The Pieces I Am">Read more >
Since a brief protest by white nationalists interrupted a reading this past Saturday at bookstore Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., a flurry of news stories has made the incident—which occurred during a reading by Jonathan Metzl—seem “worse than it Read more >
