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Here are the 2023 Whiting Award winners.
The crop of emerging writers who will receive $50,000 as a Whiting Award winner has been announced. Ten writers across fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry received the prize at the March 29...
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Exclusive: See the cover for E. Lily Yu’s collection Jewel Box.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover of E. Lily Yu’s collection Jewel Box, 22 stories in which “the strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences,”...
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Dubravka Ugrešić’s Translators Remember Her
Feature image Shevuan Williams. Norman, Oklahoma 2016. Outspoken, provocative, novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugrešić died in Amsterdam on Friday, March 17th, surrounded by family and friends. She was...
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Teju Cole has a new novel out this Fall! Here’s the cover…
Teju Cole’s new novel Tremor will be published by Random House this October. Cole told Lit Hub: The best book designs are, in my view, not illustrative. They stand as their own thing in some sort of...
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Here are the winners of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Today, the Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its 88th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which seek to recognize books that “have made important contributions to our understanding of racism...
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Procrastination or Research? Curtis Sittenfeld Clicks Over to Celebrity...
Following 2016’s Eligible, a Bachelor-inspired retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Curtis Sittenfeld again took inspiration from the churn of pop culture for her newest novel, Romantic Comedy. The novel...
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What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s...
Join Literary Hub at Film Forum on Saturday, April 15th at 6:50 p.m. ET, where we’ll be co-presenting a screening of the new film Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, based on seven Murakami short stories....
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See the cover for Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, Let Us Descend, “a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the...
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Charif Shanahan on Making the Unseen Seen through Poetry
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Charif Shanahan, the...
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Here’s the cover for Álvaro Enrigue new novel, You Dreamed of Empires.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, which will be published by Riverhead in January 2024. Here’s a bit about...
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Daniel Mason’s North Woods.
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those...
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22 (More) Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On
Last month, the Literary Hub staff put together a list of a few film and TV adaptations that we (gasp, pearl-clutch, etc.) liked better than the books they were based on. We asked our readers for their...
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Here is the 2023 class of Cullman Center Fellows.
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 25th class of Cullman Fellows. This year, the fellows were chosen from a group of 408...
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Better Harry Potter TV projects we would like to put out there.
Ten years—ten years!—reliving JK Rowling’s journey from underdog pastiche to problematic bajillionaire seems like a lot, doesn’t it? And yet Max (formerly HBO Max) plans on sinking millions into a...
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Elizabeth Graver and J.C. Hallman on the Blurred Boundaries between Fact and...
We first met in June 2021, at a residency at Marble House Project in Dorset, Vermont. We retreated to our studios to work for hours on end (Elizabeth on the last chapter of her novel Kantika, and J.C....
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How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores
Alison L. Strayer is an award-winning writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted twice for the Governor’s General Award for Literature and for Translation. Her translation of Annie Ernaux’s...
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Meet the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize “Winner of Winners” Shortlist
In honor of its 25th anniversary, the Baillie Gifford Nonfiction Prize will announce on Thursday its “Winner of Winners” award, which singles out the best of its annual prize-winners over the last...
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10 Screen Adaptations Much, Much Worse Than The Books They’re Based On
Here at Lit Hub, we’ve been thinking about the movies. (The literary movies, of course.) We’ve spent a possibly unreasonable number of hours in the virtual office debating our choices for the film and...
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AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of April
Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share this best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb | Read by Chanté McCormick, Brendan Slocumb...
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Has Respect for a Tough Edit
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah burst onto the literary scene in 2018 with the short-story collection Friday Black, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book. He...
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