72 Hours in Seattle: Where to Eat, Drink, and Visit During AWP 2023
It’s that special time of year again, when thousands of writers descend upon a host city for panels, off-site readings, and general rumpus for the AWP conference. This year, the festivities are in...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After Elvis
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After TÁR
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleExclusive cover reveal: Elizabeth Crook’s The Madstone
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elizabeth Crook’s The Madstone, forthcoming from Little Brown in November 2023. Here’s a little more about The Madstone, from the publisher: A pregnant...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After Avatar: The Way of Water
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After All Quiet on the Western Front
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After Everything Everywhere All at...
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleOscars Countdown: What to Read (and Watch) After Top Gun: Maverick
Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in...
View ArticleWhy Philip Roth, Why Now?
Image courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress. When Philip Roth died in 2018, media was saturated with coverage, testimonials and commemorations of the writer, and rightfully so. A towering...
View Article30 Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now
Every year, in the weeks leading up to the National Book Critics Circle Awards, the NBCC board members take the time to review and appreciate the thirty finalists, recognized in Autobiography,...
View ArticleExclusive! See the cover for Naomi Alderman’s The Future.
Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Naomi Alderman’s new novel The Future, which will be published by Simon and Schuster this November. Here’s more about the book from the publisher: A...
View ArticleHere’s the cool new cover for K-Ming Chang’s new novel, Organ Meats.
Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover for K-Ming Chang’ new novel, Organ Meats, which will be published by One World in October. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Best friends Anita and...
View ArticleSee the cover for Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon’s Video Game...
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon, which will be published by Graywolf in November. Graywolf...
View ArticleElissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash on Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction
Elissa Sloan is the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes and most recently of Hayley Adridge is Still Here, both examinations of women and celebrity that look back on how unfairly treated the pop...
View ArticleExclusive: See the cover for Bryan Washington’s new novel, Family Meal.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Bryan Washington’s latest novel, Family Meal, coming this fall from Riverhead Books. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: From the...
View ArticleExclusive: See the cover for Benjamín Labatut’s new novel, The MANIAC.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Benjamín Labatut’s new novel, The MANIAC, which will be published by Penguin Press this fall. Here’s how the publisher describes the book: From one of...
View ArticleCatherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novel Biography of X, written by the widow of the titular X, an “iconoclastic” artist, writer, and mystery (it turns out) following X’s death. Set in a revisionist...
View ArticleAudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of March
Each month, for your literary listening pleasure, our friends at AudioFile Magazine bring us the cream of the audiobook crop. This month’s horde of harmonious audiobooks includes Salman Rushdie (read...
View ArticleKelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful...
In her latest short story collection, White Cat, Black Dog, MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link reinvents seven fairytales into modern, realist short stories about, for example, an aging...
View ArticleRevealing the Cover for Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s new novel…
Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s new novel The Pole, which will be published by Liveright this September. Here’s more about the book from the...
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