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New and Noteworthy Nonfiction You Should Read This December
Michael Stewart Foley, Citizen Cash (Basic Books) Like Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash has long been one of those iconic American artists widely claimed by both the political left and right: he’s proud...
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Three Poems From Malika’s Poetry Kitchen
For the Young Men Popping Wheelies on Southwark Street in Late Afternoon Traffic Jacob Sam-La Rose One day, you will die. But not today. And perhaps you have already tasted it, whatever endings taste...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Sarah Thankam Mathews’ All This Could Be Different.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel All This Could Be Different, which will be published by Viking—who acquired it in an 8-way auction—in summer 2022. The...
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“He Wound Up Feeling Like a Close Friend.” On Drawing the Life of Leonard Cohen
Philippe Girard (Leonard Cohen: On a Wire) and Joe Ollmann (Fictional Father) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The...
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On the Complex Historical and Contemporary Terrain of African Literature
For five years now, on the first full week of December, readers and writers and educators and librarians and publishers join together to celebrate the diversity of literature in Africa, using the...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31
What can we say about 2021, as a whole? It was a little bit better than 2020, if still not the greatest year in recent memory. It brought us many things: Bean Dad, Bernie’s mittens, Amanda Gorman,...
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On Hora de Clarice, read an excerpt from Clarice Lispector’s new stories for...
Today, December 10th, is Hora de Clarice; an international celebration of the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, Claire Lispector. In July 2022, New Directions will publish a new...
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Check out every New Directions cover for Clarice Lispector’s work.
Today is Clarice Lispector’s birthday—an international celebration recognized as Hora de Clarice—and in celebration, we’re looking back on her body of work. Today, New Directions, Lispector’s longtime...
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On Telling the Story of Injustice Through Memoir
Michelle Bowdler and Kenny Fries—two memoirists, social justice advocates, and LGBTQ authors—first met in as undergraduates at Brandeis University in the early 1980s and their writing brought them back...
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Aysegül Savas on the Business of Writing Beyond the Language of Business
Aysegül Savas’s new novel, White on White is out now from Riverhead Books, so we asked about her writing process, her favorite reads, how she handles writer’s block, and more. * What do you always want...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11
What can we say about 2021, as a whole? It was a little bit better than 2020, if still not the greatest year in recent memory. It brought us many things: Bean Dad, Bernie’s mittens, Amanda Gorman,...
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The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year
What can we say about 2021, as a whole? It was a little bit better than 2020, if still not the greatest year in recent memory. It brought us many things: Bean Dad, Bernie’s mittens, Amanda Gorman,...
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81 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2021
Two years and running. The changed world in which we’re living has stayed altered, and in 2021 the quiet of lockdowns was exchanged for different silences—of mourning; of a steady, grinding...
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“It Can Be a Wild Story, but Everything Has to Feel Real.” A Conversation...
Rutu Modan (Tunnels, Exit Wounds, The Property) and Jason Lutes (Berlin) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The driving...
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The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2021
Another year of Lit Hub has come and gone. We don’t have to tell you that this year was a weird one—the pandemic wore on, and the Literary Hub staff worked entirely from home. We still, however,...
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Remembering Joan Didion
Joan Didion died today at her home in Manhattan, The New York Times reports. The legendary novelist and essayist was 87. According to Paul Bogaards, an executive at Knopf, Didion’s publisher, the cause...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022
And just like that . . . 2021 is over. Like any year, it had its share of disappointments, triumphs, and scandals. There were some good books published and some good literary adaptations to watch....
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Exclusive cover reveal: Christopher Soto’s Diaries of a Terrorist.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Christopher Soto’s debut poetry collection, Diaries of a Terrorist, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press this spring. Copper Canyon notes that...
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Why Do We Return to the Greek Myths Again and Again?
Charlotte Higgins and Stacey Swann, a British classicist and a Texan novelist, have both drawn on ancient Greek mythology in their latest books—but in completely different ways. In an email...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Kate Beaton’s graphic memoir Ducks.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kate Beaton’s graphic memoir Ducks, which will be published by Drawn & Quarterly this September. After university, Katie Beaton went out west to take...
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