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14 Books You Should Read This March
Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press) What You Have Heard Is True, the memoir of human rights activist and Poet of Witness Carolyn Forché is coming out this month, an account of...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Elizabeth Taylor on Yunte Huang
In this 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14, 2019 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the thirty-one finalists. Today, NBCC...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Gregg Barrios on Rigoberto González
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Carlin Romano on Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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Helen Oyeyemi on Her Favorite Books and TV Shows
Helen Oyeyemi’s new novel, Gingerbread, is now available from Riverhead Books. * Which non-literary piece of culture—film, tv show, painting, song—could you not imagine your life without? I have to...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Mary Ann Gwinn on Steve Coll
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Walton Muyumba on Terrance Hayes
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Kerri Arsenault on Francisco Cantú
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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Salvatore Scibona and Victor LaValle Talk War, Grad School, and the Inner...
Salvatore Scibona, whose new novel, The Volunteer, is available now from Penguin Press, had a proper writerly conversation with Victor LaValle in which, among other things, they discussed grad school,...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Yahdon Israel on Nell Irvin Painter
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the 31 finalists. Today, NBCC board member...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Charles Finch on Adam Zagajewski
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14, 2019 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the thirty-one finalists. Today, NBCC...
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Saunders, McCracken, and More: Advice from Masters of the Short Story
Tobias Wolff: “Writing, for me, is a continual process of negotiation with what I’ve written before. I think it is for a lot of writers.” “There are just so many stories that are snowflake perfect....
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31 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on Tara Westover
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14, 2019 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the thirty-one finalists. Today, NBCC...
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31 Books in 30 Days: Michael Schaub on Rachel Kushner
In the 31 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 14, 2019 announcement of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC board members review the thirty-one finalists. Today, NBCC...
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John Lanchester and Joe O’Neill Talk Climate Change and Border Walls
John Lanchester’s novel, The Wall, is available from W.W. Norton. * Joe O’Neill: None of your four previous novels particularly resembles its predecessors, and The Wall maintains this practice. Can you...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Underland, Rachel Ingalls, The Magicians, and More
Few things please me more than loving a book I had a vague feeling I wouldn’t like. Such was the case with Circe. I’m not a huge fan of historical (or mythical) reimaginings, so even though the book...
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Read a Previously Unpublished Letter from Zora Neale Hurston
In 1952, Zora Neale Hurston was living in a cottage in Florida, where she had gone to work on a story about a black woman who murdered the man who raped her. Hurston believed the series could help end...
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Ada Limón: “I Have Never Done Anything Alone”
Ada Limón won the National Book Critic Circle Award for Poetry last night for her collection, The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018). Limón was also a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the...
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James Baldwin: ‘I Never Intended to Become an Essayist’
As essayist, James Baldwin has written about life in Harlem, Paris, Atlanta; about Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jimmie Carter; and about Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Norman Mailer. In...
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Announcing the 2019 Whiting Award Winners
On the 34th anniversary of the Whiting Awards, the Whiting Foundation gives $50,000 each to ten diverse emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The winners are honored today, March...
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