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EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Broken People by Sam Lansky.
Sam Lansky, author of the memoir The Gilded Razor and the West Coast Editor at TIME magazine, will publish a novel in June 2020. Here’s the cover! Lansky’s narrator, Sam, is a writer and recovering...
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Elizabeth Strout on Writers’ Block, the Art of Edward Hopper, and More
Elizabeth Strout’s new novel, Olive, Again is out now from Random House, so we asked her to take our writer’s questionnaire. * Who do you most wish would read your book? The person I most want to read...
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Deborah Levy Beats Writers’ Block by… Swimming
Deborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything is out now from Bloomsbury, so we asked her a few questions about the writer’s craft, beloved books, and advice. * Who do you most wish would read your book? I...
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Albanian author Ismail Kadare has won the 2020 Neustadt International Prize...
Ismail Kadare is the 26th laureate of the renowned Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which recognizes outstanding literary merit in literature worldwide. Kadare is an Albanian novelist,...
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Here is the 2019 shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction.
The shortlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has been announced! The UK-based prize, which was first awarded in 1999, is open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics,...
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Take a look inside Rihanna’s new photo-biography.
In case you haven’t heard, Rihanna released a book, Rihanna: Fenty x Phaidon, filled with photographs documenting her life and career, from Barbados to worldwide tours, fashion shows, and book...
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Lit Hub Staff Picks: Our Favorite Stories This Month
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 200 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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10 Books You Should Read This November
Lydia Davis, Essays One (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Given Lydia Davis’ tentacular intelligence, her absolute mastery of the English language, and her essentially curious nature, it should have been...
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Philip Goff and Philip Pullman Talk Materialism, Panpsychism, and...
The following conversation between Philip Goff and Philip Pullman was moderated live by Nigel Warburton, on the occasion of Goff’s new book, Galileo’s Error, available now from Pantheon. * Nigel...
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Bernardine Evaristo on the Illusion of Writer’s Block
Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, which recently won the Booker Prize, is out now from Grove Atlantic. We asked her about writers’ block, her favorite books, and more. * Who do you most wish...
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How Do We Bring More Urgency to the Climate Crisis? Emma Sloley and Emily...
On January 1st, 2019, the writer Emily Raboteau began a thread on her Twitter feed, linking to a story on the erosion of the Dead Sea with the words: “At last night’s New Year’s Eve party, Nim said...
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Maaza Mengiste: This Book Was ‘A Bone in My Body’
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Maaza Mengiste takes the call from Paul Holdengraber to discuss her latest book, The Shadow King, out now from W.W. Norton. From the episode: Maaza...
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Why Families Keep Secrets: A Red Ink Conversation
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, “Haunted” will take place on November 14th at...
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Lit Hub Recommends: Schitt’s Creek, Stumptown, and Motherless Brooklyn
I like to think I’m not a person who’s susceptible to influencers, but the truth it, of course, I’m highly susceptible to a certain kind of influencer, who wears clogs and a lot of cannellini beans...
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Reading Albert Woodfox’s Solitary While Being Detained at Guantánamo
I don’t know who brought the copy of Solitary to Guantánamo, but by the time of my last visit, in October, it had been passed around and a few of my clients had read it, including Ahmed Rabbani. That...
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Hallie Rubenhold wins £50K for Her Biography of the Victims of Jack the Ripper.
Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has won The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. The Five reconstructs the lives of...
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Congratulations to National Book Foundation Lifetime Honoree Edmund White
Every now and then, Edmund White stops by my house for a party. A long-time non-drinker, he often arrives and leaves early, but in that short window, when he’s sitting on a stool or a chair or on the...
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Imani Perry on the “Slow Work” of Writing
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Imani Perry takes the call from Paul Holdengraber to discuss her latest book, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, out now from Beacon Press. From the...
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The Long History of Afrogoth, from Toni Morrison to M. Lamar
The following is a conversation between Leila Taylor and M. Lamar that took place over email in preparation for their recent discussion on Taylor’s new book Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic...
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What Was the First Book You Fell in Love With?
We asked this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalists about their earliest love affairs with reading. Meet them all at the Finalist Reading and Fête on December 9 at The Center for...
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