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Read from the 2021 Cundill History Prize Shortlist
On September 23rd, McGill University announced the shortlist for the 2021 Cundill History Prize. Founded in 2008 by the late Peter Cundill, the prestigious prize recognizes history writing in English...
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The Best New Nonfiction to Read This November
Lydia Davis, Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Essays Two, Lydia Davis’ follow-up to Essays One—which offered the author and...
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What Does “Change” Mean in 2021?
The newest issue of Freeman’s, a biannual edited by Knopf executive editor John Freeman, gathers together a collection of new writing around the theme of change. To commemorate its launch, Freeman...
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The Guggenheim is launching a new, year-long poet-in-residence position in 2022.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce that the Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets, has established a year-long poet-in-residence program, beginning in January 2022....
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Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This November
Robin McLean, Pity the Beast (And Other Stories) Like a film that occasionally skips, this dark and brooding chase through the wilds peeks around present acts of sudden violence, long contemplation,...
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“It becomes something new every time.” Deborah Levy and Merve Emre on Mrs....
Literary Hub is very pleased to share this conversation between Deborah Levy and Merve Emre on Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel Mrs. Dalloway, and Woolf’s influence on their own work and writing lives,...
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This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Education, Critical Race...
The 2021 University Press Week runs from November 8 to 12. This year’s theme “Keep Up!,” chosen by the Association of University Presses, marks the ten-year anniversary of UP Week, and celebrates the...
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Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur
Dear Readers: We have an amazing lineup for you, although we’re deeply disappointed we won’t be able to see you in person this spring. We were excited to announce that the 11th edition of the Festival...
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Here are the 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction grantees.
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced this year’s recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which supports “original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest possible...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Morgan Talty’s Night of the Living Rez.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Morgan Talty’s debut story collection, Night of the Living Rez, which will be published by Tin House Books in summer 2022. Talty noted that he “wanted to...
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing About Family
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, “Loneliness,” will take place on November 15th...
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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 3rd at The Center for...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Mieko Kawakami’s All The Lovers In The Night.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the new cover for Mieko Kawakami’s novel, All The Lovers in the Night, which will be published by Europa Editions in May 2022 in an English translation by Sam Bett and...
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Here are the winners of the 2021 National Book Awards.
Tonight, in a digital ceremony hosted by Phoebe Robinson, the National Book Foundation announced the winners of its 2021 National Book Awards in Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature,...
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Lit Hub Daily: November 18, 2021
TODAY: In 1882, Wyndham Lewis, writer, artist, and cofounder of the Vorticist movement, is born. Check out an exclusive clip from the new documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. | The Hub...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of Lidia Yuknavitch’s Thrust, her first major novel since 2017’s The Book of Joan, which will be published by Riverhead in June 2022. Here’s how the...
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“I Have to Give a Lot to the Reader on Every Page.” A Conversation With...
Brecht Evens and Tom Devlin spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall events initiative by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. Evens and Devlin have worked together since Evens...
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COVER REAL: Northwestern University Press’s collection Growing Up Chicago.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for the story collection Growing Up Chicago, edited by David Schaafsma, Roxanne Pilat, and Lauren DeJulio Bell with a foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea, which will...
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How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Seattle
To celebrate our partnership with Kimpton, enjoy 20% off their Best Available Rate. Cozy up in your hotel room with one of our seasonal book recommendations, or venture out on a book lovers’ travel...
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21 Movies You Should Watch This Holiday Season
Tis the season to complain about it being dark out at 5 pm, which also means it’s the season to plonk down in front of your biggest screen and binge some comfort movies. We asked some of our favorite...
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