From Pick-Up and Pynchon to a Lifetime in Publishing
Longtime friends Gerry Howard and Peter Kaldheim discuss how they bonded over their great love of books and how their friendship helped them carve their respective paths in the New York literary world....
View ArticleIf You Haven’t Yet Had Time to Read Moby-Dick Here’s a Pop-Up Book
Two hundred years ago, Herman Melville was born and the course of American literary history changed forever. In celebration of the author’s bicentennial, Chronicle Books published Moby-Dick: A Pop-Up...
View Article10 Books You Should Read This August
Téa Obreht, Inland (Random House) Téa Obreht’s follow-up to 2011’s The Tiger’s Wife is just as rich and immersive and brilliantly observed as her debut, but in entirely different ways—less Balkan fairy...
View ArticleToni Morrison on Reality TV, Black Lives Matter, and Meeting Jeff Bezos
In an exclusive interview with Natur & Kulturs Litterära Revy, Ms. Morrison talks with Nadifa Mohamed about literature, police brutality and Kanye West’s birthday presents. This is an excerpt from...
View ArticleSarah Broom on Revising the Map of Your Own Story
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber and Sarah Broom discuss her memoir, The Yellow House, the Kei Miller and Peter Turchi epigraphs in the book, the influence of Toni...
View ArticleLit Hub Daily: August 19, 2019
TODAY: In 1631, poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright John Dryden, who was made England’s first Poet Laureate in 1668, is born. Lessons from Nabokov: Rajia Hassib on finding freedom in a...
View ArticleAmitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Amitav Ghosh are both authors whose works offer razor-sharp insight into overlooked members of society—men and women caught in power systems beyond their control who...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Memoir
This week we’ll be previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering politics, history, biography, science, tech, social science, and more. We begin today with memoir,...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Essay Collections
This week we’ll be previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering politics, history, biography, science, tech, social science, and more. We begin today with essays,...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Politics
This week we’re previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, history, biography, science, tech, social science, and more. We continue today with...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science
This week we’re previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, history, biography, science, tech, social science, and more. We continue today with...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Biography
This week we’ve been previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, politics, science, tech, social science, and more. We continue today with...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: History
This week we’ve been previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, politics, science, tech, social science, and more. We continue today with history,...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Technology
This past week we’ve previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, politics, history, biography, social science, and more (see it all, here). We...
View ArticleLit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Science
This past week we’ve previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, politics, history, biography, social science, and more (see it all, here). We...
View ArticleLit Hub Recommends: Hadestown, Ling Ma, Madeline Miller, Jean Echenoz, and More
Two months ago, I recommended The Mushroom at the End of the World, and this month I still can’t get enough stories about things that grow in strange, disturbed, sometimes-ugly places. William Bryant...
View Article11 Books You Should Read This September
Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey (Knopf) It’s a foggy New Year’s Day in Santa Cruz when Patti Smith wakes up in the Dream Motel following up a three-day run at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Winner of Restless Books 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize
Restless Books is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year will award $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation American...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Becoming Duchess Goldblatt.
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt, “a debut memoir and joyful romp,” will be published anonymously by the author behind the beloved Twitter account. The book tells two stories: that of how a writer deep in...
View ArticleOn the Occasion of Margaret Atwood Day, Here Are Some Photos of Her Over the...
Well, today is the day you’ve all been waiting for: Margaret Atwood’s hotly hyped, closely guarded, imperfectly embargoed, Booker-shortlisted The Testaments is on the bookstore shelves. For the...
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