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Here’s the cover for Katherine Min’s posthumous novel The Fetishist.
Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover from Katherine Min’s novel, The Fetishist, which will be published by Putnam in January 2024. Min’s debut novel Secondhand World was a runner-up for the...
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Chana Porter and Cole Kazdin Talk Food and Feminism
Chana Porter is the author of The Thick and the Lean, a new speculative novel in which sex is publicly celebrated while food is a shameful secret, consumed behind closed doors and shunned as a...
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Have a look back at every Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner of the 21st Century.
On Monday, at around 3PM (EST), from Columbia University in New York City, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000 dollars (which...
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Announcing the 2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows.
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows: A.J. Bermudez, Francisco González, Alexia Nader, Itto Outini, Amanda Rizkalla and Xueyou Wang. The Steinbeck Fellows Program is...
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Have a look back at every Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction winner of the 21st...
This afternoon, at around 3PM (EST), from Columbia University in New York City, the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000...
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Mother’s Day gifts for literary moms.
The most thankless characters in literary history are mothers. They’re always birthing important characters and assuming the shape of overplayed metaphors and even, sometimes, marrying the fratricidal...
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See the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s novel Martyr!
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s forthcoming novel Martyr!, pitched as “a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly...
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Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill
Since exploding onto the scene with The Girls in 2016, Emma Cline has managed to surprise with each subsequent project, from 2020’s short story collection Daddy, to this summer’s novel The Guest. The...
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Here are the guest editors (and covers!) for the Best American Series 2023.
Do you like the Best American series? Of course you do! Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories to essays, science and nature...
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Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past
For Anne Berest, the surprise twists and turns of family history are ripe indeed. Berest is known to some for her work as an actor, but is widely celebrated as co-author of the bestselling How to Be...
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Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest
For over 60 years 92NY’s Discovery Contest has launched the careers of major poets like John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Mark Strand, Larry Levis, Mary Jo Bang, Solmaz Sharif and Diana Khoi Nguyen, to...
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“Chimera”
with a line from Florence Welch One morning on the radio I hear a woman’s voice singing: woman is a changeling, always shifting shape. I am left to ponder a limitude of allowed...
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“The Bureau of Mercy”
The summer I started / Prozac was a massacre / at work. The glue traps / that captured grasshoppers / careless in their collateral. / First, a frog. Then, a gecko. / Eventually, a snake, / juvenile. He...
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“Ars Poetica as an Epipen to the Eye”
This movie does it badly, which is what’s so great. I watch a lot of the laughably bad and feel buttery floods of relief. Like the first time I got wet and thought: this is how it’s supposed to be....
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“Fragments”
fragments from a wedding ______________________________ & a funeral • my sister janice is getting married. she’s being passed around like she’s bread, & everyone’s butter, complimenting her...
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Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books
Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile is available now via Vintage. We asked her a few questions about how she write, and what she can’t live without. * What part of your writing routine do you think would...
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See the cover for Alissa Hattman’s Sift
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Alissa Hattman’s Sift, which will be published by The 3rd Thing in September. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: Two women set out through...
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Haymarket Books is launching a fellowship for writers impacted by the...
Today, Haymarket Books announced a new fellowship aimed at supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the criminal legal system. The Writing Freedom Fellowship will grant 20 writers in poetry,...
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Here’s the cover for Marie-Helene Bertino’s new novel, Beautyland.
Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Marie-Helene Bertino’s new novel Beautyland, which will be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in January 2024. Here’s more about the book from...
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25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer
While novels generally get all the love when it comes to summer reading, there’s more to cracking a book on the beach or by the pool than mere diversion (you know novels are made up, right?). That’s...
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