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Olaf Olafsson Knows When to Stop Writing: Before Depletion
Touch: A Novel by Olaf Olafsson is now available. * What time of day do you write? I write in the morning after a light breakfast and a quick look at the papers. My routine is the same whether I‘m in...
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Tiffany McDaniel’s On the Savage Side.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Tiffany McDaniel’s On the Savage Side, which will be published by Knopf on February 14, 2023. McDaniel is the author of The Summer That Melted Everything...
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What to Read Before and After Seeing Loving Highsmith
Join Lit Hub at Film Forum on Friday, September 2, at 8 p.m. ET, where we’ll be co-presenting a screening of the new film Loving Highsmith, an exploration of the infamous thriller writer’s life and...
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Back to School for Everyone: (Free!) Syllabi from Some of Our Favorite Writers
There’s something about a fresh syllabus. A sincerely grandiose course description, all those readings curated just for you, a schedule that promises a beginning, middle, and end. If I could’ve stayed...
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Here are the finalists for the 2022 Kirkus Prize, one of the world’s richest...
The Kirkus Prize, now in its ninth year, is one of the richest annual literary awards in the world with the winners in each of the three categories receiving $50,000. The 18 finalists for this year’s...
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Rabih Alameddine on Only Writing When You Have Something to Say
Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope is out now in paperback from Grove Atlantic, so we asked him about writer’s block, the best books to re-read, and procrastinating. * How do you tackle...
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Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by...
Lauren Hough may be known for her spar-ready online presence, but in real life she’s pure warmth: years ago, she overheard us talking about the Insider Prize—American Short Fiction’s annual contest for...
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Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan on What Drives Religious Searching
The following is an interview between Seán O’Hagan and Nick Cave, excerpted from the book Faith, Hope and Carnage, a collection of conversations between the two. * I know you don’t like looking back,...
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Here’s the longlist for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.
Today, the judges for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction announced their 2022 longlist: 12 books that represent the best in nonfiction writing published in the UK in the last year. “It was a...
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2022 Cundill History Prize.
Today, the jurors for the 2022 Cundill History Prize announced their eight-book shortlist, a collection of books that “shows the range and insight of current history writing.” The winner will be...
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Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate
Qian Julie Wang’s Beautiful Country is out now in paperback from Anchor, so we asked about her routine and the intersection of writing and litigating. * What time of day do you write? I wrote Beautiful...
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Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always...
Yiyun Li is the author of six works of fiction—Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl—and the memoir Dear Friend,...
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Indian Writers on 75 Years of Independence and Partition
Three-quarters of a century has passed now since India broke free from British rule, but there is just as much to criticize as to celebrate. Below, some of India’s finest contemporary writers warn us...
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Clancy Martin’s How Not to Kill Yourself, forthcoming from Pantheon in March 2023. In the book, Martin “chronicles his multiple suicide attempts in an...
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How to Love to Your Horrible Little Goblins (and Other Advice from Calvin...
Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing is out now in paperback from Anchor Books, so we asked him about routine, empathy, and what to re-read. * What time of day do you write? I am an inveterate...
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Meet the Writers on the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist
This year’s longlist for the Baillie Gifford Prize encompasses a diverse selection of some of the best nonfiction published in 2022. Narrative and investigative, historical and contemporary, this...
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into...
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s novel Mad Honey is out now, so they answered our questions about how they came to co-write a book together, becoming closer through the process, and the books...
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Lit Hub Daily: October 4, 2022
TODAY: In 1941, Anne Rice, author of Interview with a Vampire, is born. Ray Nayler compiles an annotated bibliography of octopus videos that helped him write his novel (and are very fun to watch)....
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s Monstrilio.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s Monstrilio, a “literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man, and the people...
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Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Boswell Book Company
Shelf Talkers is a 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 Boswell Book...
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