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A Tribute to Roberto Calasso
At the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where Roberto Calasso was elected as a Foreign Honorary Member, he is tickled by composer Charles Ives’ daily schedule which includes time for loafing after...
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Apparently, Sally Rooney will only be doing (1) book event for her new novel.
Sally Rooney has pulled a Lorde: after releasing two smash hits, she’s retreated from city life. According to Vogue, Rooney has moved back to rural west Ireland, near the quiet town where she grew up;...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Sarah Manguso’s debut novel, Very Cold People.
Sarah Manguso, whose nonfiction work 300 Arguments was called “the perfect book, with no gristle on it” by The New Republic, is publishing her eighth book and first novel with Hogarth in February. The...
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Imminence
We’re alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest the way they said it would. The baby has...
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T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page
T. C. Boyle’s Talk to Me is out today, so we asked him a few questions about writing habits and cultural touchstones. * Literary Hub: What time of day do you write? T. C. Boyle: I crave structure, not...
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Using Reinvention as a Writing Tool
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 discussion, “Writing About Family,” will take place on...
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When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote
It was a late-life détente between the playwright and his younger novelist friend, and it took a lot of pride swallowing to write. In July 1978, Truman Capote was being raked over the coals in the...
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“The Writer You Are is Enough.” Ruth Ozeki on Process and Acceptance
Ruth Ozeki’s A Book of Form and Emptiness is out today, so we spoke to her about professors she fell in love with, accessing the liminal fictional space in the early hours of the morning, and the best...
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LIVESTREAM: The 2021 Cundill History Prize Shortlist Announcement
Watch below for the shortlist announcement for this year’s Cundill History Prize, the richest award in the world for nonfiction in English (the winner will receive $75,000 US). This year’s jury is...
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Lucy Ellmann: “It’s Time For Men to Read Books By Women”
Lucy Ellmann’s essay collection, Things Are Against Us is out today, so we spoke with her about Jane Austen, what she wishes she could ask her interviewer, and Bach’s solo cello suites. * Literary Hub:...
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Announcing the Winner of Restless Books 2021 Prize for New Immigrant Writing
We’re delighted to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year awards $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author,...
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New and Noteworthy Nonfiction to Read This October
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The world lost an important and original thinker when anarchist anthropologist David...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Bryan Doerries’s The Oedipus Trilogy.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for The Oedipus Trilogy, Brian Doerries’s new translations of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, forthcoming from Vintage Books on...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ada Limón’s latest collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, which will be published by Milkweed Editions this spring. Here’s how Milkweed describes the...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Akwaeke Emezi’s Content Warning: Everything.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji author Akwaeke Emezi’s debut poetry collection, Content Warning: Everything, which will be published by Copper...
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Miriam Toews on the “Incredible Empathy” of Steinbeck and Writing Honestly
Miriam Toews’ newest novel, Fight Night, is available today, so we spoke to her about Neil Young, giving the mind permission to be still, and the book she returns to time and time again. * Literary...
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Joshua Ferris Urges Writers Not to Cower on the Page
Joshua Ferris’s novel A Calling for Charlie Barnes is out now, so we spoke with him about writing habits, Sesame Street, and the books he rereads with enthusiasm. * Literary Hub: Who do you most wish...
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Donald Antrim’s Book Speaks Directly to Those Suffering With Depression
Donald Antrim’s new memoir, One Friday in April, is available today, so we spoke to him about world-building, Lord of the Rings, and who this book is for. * Literary Hub: Who do you most wish would...
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International Crime: Deepa Anappara, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Paul Vidich
In a partnership with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants Lit Hub is curating a book club and lending program for travelers based on seasonal themes. Our fall reading list, International Crime, takes you...
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