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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked...
Nightmare Alley reunited (though only briefly) Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, and for that we’re eternally grateful. Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of William Gresham’s 1946 novel about the shadowy...
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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Don’t...
Adam McKay and Netflix’s star-studded apocalyptic satire of two low-level astronomers trying to get the American government (and the rest of the world) to respond to an extinction-level comet that is...
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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked CODA
With only three nominations (compared to, say, The Power of the Dog’s twelve), CODA wasn’t originally a favorite to win Best Picture. But the heartwarming coming-of-age story of Ruby, the only hearing...
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“I pretend death doesn’t exist.” New Poetry From Ukraine by Iryna Shuvalova
Being a Ukrainian abroad and being a Ukrainian at home today represent two different kinds of pain. Iryna Shuvalova, a Ukrainian poet and literature scholar, traveled from her native Kyiv to China,...
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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked Licorice...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s nostalgic coming-of-age (or failure-to-launch) love letter to 1970s LA is up for three Oscars: Best Picture, Original Screenplay, and Director (an Anderson trifecta). It’s been...
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Oscars Best Picture Spotlight: What to Read (and Watch) If You Liked West...
Steven Spielberg’s take on West Side Story is up for seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose), Director, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, and Sound. More...
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Your Literary Guide to the 93rd Academy Awards
Sure, we’re a website about books—but does that preclude us from having opinions about movies? Nope! (Especially not when said films are based on books, which by our count is 50 percent of the Best...
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How To Live, Eat, and Drink Like Your Favorite Writers
Live Like Philip Larkin My life is as simple as I can make it. Work all day, cook, eat, wash up, telephone, hack writing, drink, television in the evenings. I almost never go out. I suppose everyone...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s What We Fed to the Manticore.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut story collection What We Fed to the Manticore, which will be published by Tin House this September. Tin House describes What We...
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The first three books from Roxane Gay’s imprint have been announced.
Eight months after the launch of Roxane Gay Books, an imprint of Grove Atlantic seeking to publish “beautifully written, provocative, intelligent, [risky]” writing, Roxane Gay Books has announced its...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Terms of eligibility can be as revealing through those they exclude as through those they welcome. The first O. Henry Prize collection, published in 1919, ruled out all non-American writers. Yet in...
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Preview Exclusive Audio Excerpts from Emily St. John Mandel’s New Book
Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel Sea of Tranquility is published today by Knopf. You can listen to two excerpts from the book below. PRH Audio · SEA OF TRANQUILITY Clip – Part 1 PRH Audio · SEA OF...
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On Preserving and Protecting Protest Art In Oakland
Nomadic Press and EastSide Arts Alliance have joined forces to create Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion, a full-color, hardcover art book featuring the Oakland murals that...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Silas House’s Lark Ascending.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Silas House’s latest novel Lark Ascending, which will be published by Algonquin in September. Algonquin describes Lark Ascending as “a riveting story of...
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Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna...
In one very real sense, the current war in Ukraine is about language. Vladimir Putin has presented the defense of Russian-speakers in Ukraine as justification for a campaign of cultural and political...
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Ocean Vuong on Taking the Time You Need to Write
As told to Lit Hub senior editor Corinne Segal. This interview has been edited and condensed. The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. * The Japanese have...
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Shelf Talkers: The Bookshop in East Nashville, Tennessee
Shelf Talkers is a new series at Lit Hub where booksellers from independent bookstores around the country share their favorite reads of the moment. Here are recommendations from the staff at The...
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On Writing a Social Novel, Giving Clear Feedback, and Outlasting Doubt
I met Melissa Chadburn in 2011, at the Tin House Writer’s Conference, where I taught her in workshop. You already know that I’m going to tell you that she was brilliant and kind and funny, even back...
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What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the...
To meet this moment of climate crisis with anything other than despair demands so much of us: motivation, imagination, and action on a global scale. We reached out to some of the writers whose work has...
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From Individual Action to Global Awareness: How to Save the Planet
One ball lobbed back and forth in climate change discussions is not just who’s to blame, but who should change their behaviors. Does it matter if one person recycles, when the vast majority of global...
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