Librarian Confidential: Sophie Brookover
Sophie Brookover is the Program Coordinator & Social Media Manager for LibraryLinkNJ, the New Jersey Library Cooperative. According to her Goodreads shelves, her favorite reads are children’s...
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18 Books You Should Read This April
The Excellent Lombards, Jane Hamilton (Grand Central Publishing) Jane Hamilton can do anything, really; she proved with Laura Rider’s Masterpiece that she’s as funny a writer as she is authoritative....
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Remembering the Great Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison—writer, poet, storyteller—died last Saturday, March 26th, at the age of 78. He is remembered here by his friends and admirers. To read a selection of some of Harrison’s last poems, head...
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: First Round Winners!
The first round of these kinds of tournaments can often yield the most exciting results, as plucky underdogs upset perennial favorites. Click through to see who our judges chose to move to round two of...
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Who Will Advance from the Erotic Eight?
For the second round of The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing (the Erotic Eight, obviously), we took our era-specific division winners and crossed them over in an atemporal free-for-all of sexy lit....
View ArticleHow the NYRB Chooses Its Reissues: The Story of Stoner
This interview first appeared in Chinese in Tencent Weibo. Yongxi Wu: Stoner is a book published 50 years ago. When it first came out, it was largely ignored, but it always enjoyed a secret life [EF: a...
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Five Writers on the Poems That Make Them Cry
Following the success of their previous anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-son editorial team Anthony and Ben Holden set out to compile a sister volume. Poems That Make Grown Women Cry...
View ArticleThe Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: D.H. Lawrence vs. James Baldwin
D.H. LAWRENCE VS. JAMES BALDWIN It’s down to the last four. In this match-up, John Ashbery must choose between the swooning metaphors of D.H. Lawrence and the honest intimacy of James Baldwin. Lady...
View ArticleThe Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Jeanette Winterson vs. Philip Roth
JEANETTE WINTERSON VS. PHILIP ROTH It’s down to the last four. In this match-up, Walter Mosley must choose between the poetic immediacy of Jeanette Winterson and the manic priapism of Philip Roth....
View ArticleElif Batuman: On the Russians, the Telephone, and Hyphenated Identity
This week, Paul Holdengraber calls Elif Batuman, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. Batuman’s first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read...
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: Final Four!
After feverish competition in the round of Sexy Sixteen, followed by the Erotic Eight, the Final Four of *ucking proved to be not so hotly contested. Continue below for judgements from the great John...
View ArticleA. Igoni Barrett on Nigeria, Language, and Striving for the Universal
The following conversation took place on March 23, 2016 as part of Mic’s Q&A series, Pass the Mic. Jamilah King: I’m a staff writer at Mic and my work focuses on race and culture, and I’m honored...
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The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing: And the Winner Is…
After a grueling week of euphemizing, trash-talking, biologizing, and sexytime literary word-making, The Tournament of Literary Sex Writing is ready to declare a winner. But first, a recap. Round one...
View ArticleGetting to Know the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Finalists
Tonight, PEN America will announce the recipient of the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction at its annual literary awards ceremony. The Bingham Prize “honors an exceptionally talented...
View ArticleElif Batuman on Crying, Taste, and Writing a Novel Called “The Idiot”
In part two of their conversation, Elif Batuman and Paul Holdengraber discuss taste, aging and, of course, crying. Elif Batuman on what she’s working on now… The novel I’m working on now is called The...
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Five Mississippi Writers on Why They Oppose Their State’s New Anti-LGBTQ...
On April 5th Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law Mississippi House Bill 1523, which will allow businesses, doctors, and court clerks to discriminate against fellow Mississippians based on...
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Poetry Day is the Best Day
Every day (every week, every month) at Literary Hub is poetry day. Today, however, is Poetry Day. Here, deep in the middle of the cruelest month, Poetry Month, we offer a cross section of contemporary...
View ArticleLibrarian Confidential: Alexander Lent
Alexander Lent is the Library Director at the Millis Public Library, outside of Boston, and has been working in libraries for nearly a decade. What’s your earliest library memory? I vividly remember...
View ArticleMitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part One
It is the season that Black Lives began mattering and Obama wanted brothers to keep their brothers and the world lost the ex-First Lady (RIP), who believed she could cure what seemed pandemic in my old...
View ArticleMitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part Two
In part two of Mitchell S. Jackson’s autobiographical documentary, The Residue Years, Jackson delves deeper into his past, recalling days dealing drugs, and the consequences to follow… To watch part...
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