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A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”
How many of us writers, gazing upon the spectacle of recent American politics, have despairingly called to mind Roth’s infamous comment about the difficulty of making American reality credible? Even in...
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George Saunders on Reading Chaotically and the Power of Generous Teachers
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize, and the story collections Pastoralia and Tenth of December, which was a finalist...
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Cover reveal: Stephen Buoro’s The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Stephen Buoro’s debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, which will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2023. Here’s how the publisher...
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene, the latest novel from the bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize and NBCC finalist, which will be published by...
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The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”...
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Waste Land,” we invited four writers and academics—Beci Carver, Jahan Ramazani, Robert Crawford, and David Barnes—to discuss the importance,...
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Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Elliott Bay 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 Elliott Bay...
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Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night
Lee and Andrew Child’s new book, No Plan B, was released earlier today, so we asked them a few questions about writing routine, advice, and influence. * What time of day do you write? Lee Child: I’m...
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, the debut memoir by Kundiman fellow Jane Wong, which will be published by Tin House this spring. Here’s how the...
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Here are the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction grantees.
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the 2022 recipients of the $40,000 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, which seeks to “foster original, ambitious projects that bring writing to the highest...
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Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Gramercy Books
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 Gramercy...
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The Art of Adaptation: Camille DeAngelis and David Kajganich on Taking Bones...
Photo courtesy of Refocus Film Festival/David Greedy Last month, the inaugural Refocus Film Festival took place in Iowa City. The festival highlights films, conversations, performances, and art...
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How to Celebrate 100 Years of Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He published his first novel, Player Piano, some 30 years later, and in the decades after that, proceeded to become one of this...
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This Year’s University Press Week Highlights Work on Race, Religion, War, and...
This week is the eleventh annual celebration of mission-driven presses, University Press Week, founded by the Association of University Presses. This year’s theme for the week is “Next UP,” which...
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Nick Hornby Understands the Pitfalls of Giving Novels as Gifts
Nick Hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction. Many of his books have been turned into...
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Lit Hub Daily: November 21, 2022
TODAY: In 1876, Norwegian author Olav Dunn is born. “The door is not open yet, but it is ajar.” Shirley Chisholm on why she ran for president. | Lit Hub Politics WHEN I’M NOT WRITING: Bruna Dantas...
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Celeste Ng on Writing With a Plan
The following is an edited excerpt from a 2017 conversation with Courtney Balestier on WMFA, a show about creativity and craft, and first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up...
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Read a New Translation of “The Caucasus” by Ukrainian Poet-Hero Taras Shevchenko
In 2014, Russia responded to the protests in Ukraine known as the Revolution of Dignity, which drove out corrupt President Yanukovych, by annexing Crimea and destabilizing eastern Ukraine. These events...
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Tiya Miles is the winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize.
Tonight, in a ceremony at the Windsor Ballrooms in Montreal, Tiya Miles was awarded the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, which recognizes the best history writing in English, for All That She Carried:...
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#ReadingAfrica: Five Writers and Publishers Discuss the Continent’s Boundless...
Africa is a continent of 54 countries and some 1.4 billion people, speaking—and sometimes writing and publishing—in hundreds of languages. The book business on the continent is diverse and eclectic. We...
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What to Read Before and After The Adventures of Saul Bellow
Rejoice, Bellowheads: on December 12th, PBS is premiering the first-ever major documentary on Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Saul Bellow. Directed by Asaf Galay and featuring rare archival footage and...
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