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Literary Hub’s 10 Most Read Stories of the Year
Literary Hub launched in April of last year, so 2016 was our first full year of publication. Whew! Over the past year—not to mention since the very beginning—we have worked hard to highlight smart,...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31
The non-literary news of 2016 somehow seems bigger and darker than other years, and maybe it really is. But books were still published and writers still did strange things and some people got mad and...
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The Year’s Best Overlooked Books, According to Booksellers
Heather Tucker, The Clay Girl The Clay Girl is a novel imbued with the language of childhood, tangled by fears and fantasy, into a painfully brutal fairy tale. Ari too often has to face tragedy with...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 16
See our picks for 50 to 31 over here. 30. The National Book Awards Become the Oscars of Books The National Book Awards came at a moment of shock and despair for over half the country, just a week after...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 15 to 6
See our picks for 30 to 16 over here. 15. Everyone Who Ever Wrote a Book Predicted Trump Apparently, everyone saw it coming—from Jean-Jacques Rosseau to Shirley Jackson to George Orwell to Octavia...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: The Final 5
See our picks for 15 to 6 over here. 5. Poetry is Relevant, Again By now, it is both common knowledge and a no-longer funny joke that 2016 was an exceptionally bad year. To cope with its continued...
View ArticleA 90-Year-Old John Berger is Not Surprised By President Trump
It is with great sadness we’ve learned that John Berger has died at the age of 90. The following conversation took place with Paul Holdengraber on November 11. John Berger talks with Paul Holdengraber...
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Indies Recommend: 10 Small Press Books You Should Read This January
As the nation’s only non-profit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
View ArticleResistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles
What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of...
View ArticleLetters from an Invented Writer
James Tiptree, Jr. was born on a typewriter. He was the secret invention of Dr. Alice Bradley Sheldon, a behavioral psychologist who lifted “Tiptree” from a jar of marmalade and covertly wrote under...
View ArticleResistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of...
View ArticleResistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs
What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of...
View ArticleResistance Lit: Sarah K. Stephens on Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars
What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of...
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Announcing The 2017 Story Prize Finalists
The Story Prize, now in its 13th year, is pleased to honor as its finalists three outstanding short story collections chosen from 106 submissions representing 72 different publishers or imprints. This...
View ArticleWriters Resist: An Anti-Inauguration on MLK’s Birthday
This Sunday, January 15, on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., writers will gather across the country in a public expression of resistance against the inauguration of Donald Trump. From...
View ArticleWriters Resist: Writing Truth to Power
This Sunday, January 15, on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., writers will gather across the country in a public expression of resistance against the inauguration of Donald Trump. From...
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30 Indie Press Books We’re Looking Forward To
As day-to-day life in 2017 takes hold, the general pall of 2016 does not seem to be lifting—in fact, it now seems that things are weirder and worse than we could have imagined. And though the noble...
View ArticleW.S. Merwin: On Reading What You Want, Reading It Slowly, and the Beauty of...
W.S. Merwin and Paul Holdengraber discuss the pleasure of literary discovery, the joys of paying attention, and much, much more. W.S. Merwin on reading poems, not poetry… I think you should read them...
View ArticleWriters Resist: In Pursuit of Wild Hope
This Sunday, January 15, on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., writers will gather across the country in a public expression of resistance against the inauguration of Donald Trump. From...
View ArticleNBCC Resistance Lit: Your Inauguration Week Reading List
What’s your favorite work of resistance literature? That’s the question that launches this year’s NBCC Reads series, which draws upon the bookish passions of NBCC members and honorees at this time of...
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