May is Short Story Month. It is also, according to Wikipedia, Celiac Awareness Month, Better Hearing and Speech Month, National Pet Month (UK), National Smile Month (UK), South Asian Heritage Month, Bicycle Month, National Burger Month, National Gold Month, Jewish Read more >
Congratulations to Dante Micheaux who has been awarded the prestigious Four Quartets Poetry Prize for his 2018 collection, Circus. The Four Quartets Prize, which comes with a $20,000 purse, is awarded by the Poetry Society of America for “a unified and Read more >
Hey, it’s May Day, so here’s America’s poet laureate of work*, the late Philip Levine reading his iconic poem, “What Work Is,” which begins: We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. Read more >
You don’t want to read about how sad I am. Most of the journalists in this room with me know that, but my seatmate is the one to say it out loud, to another person sitting nearby during a break. Read more >
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. Joseph Heller was born on this day in 1923. His most famous work, Catch-22, is still being read in English classes across America every year. In case it wasn’t required reading Catch-22.">Read more >
Director John Singleton died Monday at 51. He’s best remembered for his Academy Award-nominated debut Boyz n the Hood, but it’s his second movie, Poetic Justice, that might have the most crossover appeal for readers of this site. Janet Jackson, Poetic Justice?">Read more >
One of the welcome developments of the recent audiobooks boom, particularly for those of us with visual impairments or print disabilities, has been fewer people asking if they count as reading. Friends on social media still apologize for listening to Read more >
Alice B. Toklas was born on April 30, 1877. To celebrate the anniversary of her birth, or just to celebrate the fact that it’s Tuesday and we’re all tired already, why not try her recipe for “Haschich Fudge (which anyone Read more >
Today, when The Strategist published a list of “50 Things Amy Sedaris Can’t Live Without,” I immediately went through it, looking for books. After all, underwear recs are nice and all, but as an editor at this here Literary Hub, Read more >
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. Wolf Hall, the Booker Prize-winning first volume in Hillary Mantel’s magnum opus Cromwell trilogy, hit shelves ten years ago Wolf Hall's 10th birthday by reading this Olivia Laing review from 2009">Read more >
The White Horse Tavern, beloved of literary tourists and finance bros alike, has been closed for renovations after a change in ownership. As Gothamist reports, locals are concerned enough about the new regime (namely landlord Steve Croman and restaurateur Eytan Read more >
It is we, Lit Hub’s social media editor! Actually, I’m going to use the first person singular here. On this, the inaugural day of Lit Hub’s thoroughly modern web log, I wanted to share with you my answers to some Read more >
Hi. If you’re a semi-regular visitor to Lit Hub dot com first of all thank you—but also, you may have noticed we’ve changed a few things today; for example, this is a blog post, located on our new blog, 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 >
In 1925, when Anita Loos (born on this day in 1889) published Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady, it was an instant best-seller—in fact, in 1926, it was the second-best-selling book of the entire year (unlike, Read more >
Rebecca Solnit’s Cinderella Liberator, her retelling of the classic fairytale for today’s kids, shows a new version of the story in which “nobody gets married, nobody becomes a princess, the prince needs liberation too.” Her goal was to portray “a really Read more >
If you don’t know about Jack Jones Literary Arts, founded by Kima Jones in 2015, you’ll probably at least recognize some of its clientele: Naomi Jackson, Tyehimba Jess, Angie Thomas, Tananarive Due, and Donald Quist, among others. Through personalized publicity campaigns Read more >
