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Meet the Winners of the National Magazine Award for Fiction
Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern was recently named the winner of the 2019 National Magazine Award for Fiction. McSweeney’s was recognized for three pieces from Issue 53—“Skinned” by Lesley Nneka...
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Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
The year Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York, (March 24, 1919) an American expatriate named Sylvia Beach opened a bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris. Shakespeare & Co, as she...
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But That’s Another Story Live: On Life-Changing Books
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. This week we’re bringing you a different kind of episode: a live panel that we taped at the Book Expo of America...
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Memory, Identity, and Connection at the Festival Neue Literatur
For three days each spring, Festival Neue Literatur pairs up-and-coming authors from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany with literary voices from the US for free readings and discussions in Brooklyn and...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse
As I write in May 2018, in the city of Paris, French students and workers are conducting demonstrations, sit-ins, and occupations with the aim of challenging the Macron government’s harsh attacks on...
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The Unused Alternative Covers Behind 5 Modern Literary Classics
As you may have noticed, we love book covers here at Literary Hub—and we particularly love seeing the covers that never made it to the shelves. The following is an excerpt from No. No. No. No. Yes....
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19 Books You Should Read This April
Sally Rooney, Normal People (Hogarth) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are looking forward to reading Sally Rooney’s second novel, Normal People. Marianne and Connell are high school and...
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Meet the Shortlisted Writers for the 2019 Albertine Prize
The $10,000 Albertine Prize, one of the only literary awards in the US whose winner is selected by the reading public rather than a judging panel, today unveiled its 2019 nominee list of five works of...
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A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrates Historic Contributions by Women
In his 1930 work on book collecting, Anatomy of Bibliomania, Holbrook Jackson claimed that “book love is as masculine (although not as common) as growing a beard.” The late 19th century had seen book...
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Rumors of the ‘Gay Gene’ Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Because Homo sapiens is in essence a storytelling species, it is understandable that even scientists sometimes yield to the siren call of reductionism. But we can’t ignore the fact that, when...
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Interview with a Bookstore: Romania’s At Two Owls
At Two Owls Bookstore, located in Timișoara, Romania, is an independent initiative of two lifelong best friends, Oana Doboși Potcoavă and Raluca Selejan, who answered these questions. What would you...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Susan Choi, Santa Clarita Diet, and Walt Whitman
This month, I am recommending a black and white film. It is also in French. Sorry! But I mean, it’s Canadian French, which is honestly a whole different game, and it’s a completely un-self-serious...
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Reclaiming Anger and Denial: A Red Ink Roundtable
Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The next conversation, “Authenticity,” will take place on April 19th...
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Veronica Chambers on Her Storytelling Education
Will Schwalbe: Hi. I’m Will Schwalbe, and you’re listening to But That’s Another Story. I’ll never forget the first night my parents ever left me alone—totally alone—in our house. I was nine or so, and...
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On Historical Blurring and the Question of ‘What If’
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum is the story of a scientist racing Einstein to prove relativity. In the chaos of war in 1914 Russia, on the brink of solving the famous field equations, he goes...
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Rebecca Solnit on Writing a Liberated Cinderella
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...
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Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library
The idea of a single day devoted to the earth is absurd. In the 49 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated, human civilization—checked by neither morality nor policy—has wrecked devastation upon...
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Ian McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Machines Like Me, is out now from Doubleday. * What time of day do you write? The morning. My philosopher friend Galen Strawson divides humanity into those who feel they are...
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Every Day is Earth Day: 365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library
The idea of a single day devoted to the earth is absurd. In the 49 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated, human civilization—checked by neither morality nor policy—has wrecked devastation upon...
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