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Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories From 2022
From essays to interviews, excerpts to blog posts, reading lists to poems, we publish around 500 pieces a month at Lit Hub. And while we are proud of all of the 6,000+ pieces we’ve shared in 2022, we...
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Robin Coste Lewis on Giving the Reader a Poetic Experience
Lit Hub is excited to feature a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Robin Coste Lewis, the author of To the...
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Announcing the winner of the 2022 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant...
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year awards $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author,...
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The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2022 for Everyone on Your Holiday List
For your dad who loves Carrie, Cujo, and the state of Maine: Castle Rock Kitchen: Wicked Good Recipes from the World of Stephen King by Theresa Carle-Sanders * For your whip-smart kitchen-curious...
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Exclusive cover reveal: Here’s the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth forthcoming from Counterpoint in August 2023. From the bestselling author of California, comes this “enthralling saga about...
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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Ice: A Cool History of a Hot Commodity.
Lit Hub is excited to share the cover of Amy Brady’s debut book, ICE: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity, out from Putnam in June 2023. Ice is a captivating cultural...
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88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022
One of my favorite things to do in public is eavesdrop on what other people are reading. If someone is on a subway or standing at a cafe reading a book, I will do almost anything to see the cover. Drop...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… All right, it was mostly still the worst of times. Looks like we’re stuck in the dark timeline, guys. Sorry about that. Still, things happened this...
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The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 30 to 11
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… All right, it was mostly still the worst of times. Looks like we’re stuck in the dark timeline, guys. Sorry about that. Still, things happened this...
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The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… All right, it was mostly still the worst of times. Looks like we’re stuck in the dark timeline, guys. Sorry about that. Still, things happened this...
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Past Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize Reflect on Their Year in Reading
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the most prestigious nonfiction literary award in the world. We checked in with some past winners about their year in reading. * Craig Brown, 2020 Baillie Gifford...
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What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad
For one week only (January 6 to 12), Film Forum presents James Baldwin Abroad: A Program of Three Films. Get up to two discounted $11 tickets (regular $15) to the screening and first two weeks of...
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Cover reveal: Safiya Sinclair’s summer memoir How to Say Babylon
Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover for Safiya Sinclair’s forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, which Simon and Schuster will publish this summer. Sinclair is the author of the poetry collection...
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Peter Cole on Making the Poetic Abstract Concrete
Lit Hub is excited to feature a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Peter Cole. Peter Cole is the author of...
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Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Point Reyes 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 Point Reyes...
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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023
Happy New Year, readers. 2022 had its ups and downs, along with some very good books. But now that you’ve read all the books last year had to offer (right?) it’s time for a brand new list. Here are the...
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Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for The Best Possible Experience by...
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Nishanth Injam’s debut short story collection, The Best Possible Experience, which Pantheon calls an “astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning...
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What Books Are You Most Looking Forward to This Year?
With the Winter Solstice behind us, each day will get longer, and with those minutes and eventually hors, as light falls later, there are—happily—more time to spend reading. Outside, inside, at cafes,...
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Announcing the 2023 class of Periplus fellows.
Lit Hub is pleased to announce the 2023 class of Periplus Fellows, selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants. This year, Periplus awarded a total of 55 mentorships to writers of color living and...
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Exclusive cover reveal: see the cover for Company by Shannon Sanders.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Shannon Sanders’ debut story collection, Company, which Graywolf Press calls “a richly detailed, brilliantly woven collection about the lives and lore of...
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