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75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer
Must a beach read be a novel? (If you answered yes, head here.) If you answered no please read on for a look at the nonfiction titles we’re most excited about this summer. From the history of food to...
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Kiese Laymon Recommends Describing Your Writer’s Block to Get Through It
Kiese Laymon’s Long Division—first published in 2013—is being reissued by Scribner, so we thought we’d ask him a few questions about writing process, favorite books, and writing an “internet novel”...
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Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June
We asked booksellers at independent bookstores across the country about the best books they were reading from indie presses this month. Here are their top recommendations for June. * Dag Solstad, Novel...
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These are our favorite New Directions books from their 85 (!) years of...
This month, New Directions is celebrating their 85th birthday; the festivities will kick off this week with “a night of poetry and remembrances” featuring Will Alexander, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan...
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10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer
As much as we equate summers with novel-reading (a holdover, no doubt, from being on break from school and having nothing much to do, and plenty of afternoon hours with which to read long luxurious...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Melissa Febos’s craft-book-meets-memoir, Body Work.
Melissa Febos, whose essay collection Girlhood was called “exquisite [and] ferocious,” is publishing a new craft book with Catapult in March 2022—and Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for that...
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Brandon Taylor: Writer’s Block Is Not Tragic (It’s a Part of Life)
Brandon Taylor’s Filthy Animals is out today from Riverhead, so we asked him a few questions about his favorite books, writer’s block, and more. * Literary Hub: Who do you most wish would read your...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Maud Newton’s family history, Ancestor Trouble.
Maud Newton, original literary blogger and a valued presence on literary Twitter, will publish a memoir next year that grew out of her Harper’s cover essay, “American’s Ancestry Craze.” Lit Hub is...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021, Part Two
If you can believe it, 2021 is already halfway over. That means you’ve burned your way through all the books from the first half of the year (right?) and are finding yourself hungry for more. Never...
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WATCH: Kyle Whyte and Jay Griffiths Discuss Indigenous Cultures and Climate...
Border Crossings’ ORIGINS Festival celebrates the world’s First Nations in an explosion of art, performance and debate. ORIGINS creates a unique opportunity to engage with Indigenous artists and...
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Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This July
We asked booksellers at independent bookstores across the country about the best books they were reading from indie presses this month. Here are their top recommendations for July. Claudia Ulloa...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, Booth.
Karen Joy Fowler has a knack for writing large dysfunctional families (you might remember her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was shortlisted for the...
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Hear from the authors shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness...
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Cover reveal: Erika Robuck’s new novel, Sisters of Night and Fog.
In March 2022, Erika Robuck, bestselling historical fiction author, will publish Sisters of Night and Fog, a novel based on the true story of an American socialite and a British secret. The publisher,...
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Mona Awad: Time, Faith, and Momentum Are the Keys to Sparking—and...
Mona Awad’s All’s Well is out today from Simon & Schuster, so we asked her a few questions about her favorite books, writer’s block, and more. * Literary Hub: What time of day do you write? Mona...
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Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This August
We asked booksellers at independent bookstores across the country about the best books they were reading from indie presses this month. Here are their top recommendations for August. * Matthew Rose, A...
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Adrian Tomine’s The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is becoming a...
Exciting adaptation news: as Variety reported on Thursday, Adrian Tomine’s graphic memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is being adapted by A24 and Square Peg for television as an...
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A History of the Future: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Shayla Lawson, and Meredith Talusan
In a partnership with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Lit Hub is curating a book club and lending program for travelers based on seasonal themes. Our summer reading list, A History of the Future: The...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kim Fu’s debut short story collection, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, which will be published by Tin House next year. The publisher describes the...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Richie Hofmann’s A Hundred Lovers.
Literary Hub is pleased to share the book cover for Richie Hofmann’s latest poetry collection, A Hundred Lovers, which will be published by Knopf in February 2022. The publisher describes the book like...
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