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Here’s the winner of the 2024 American Library in Paris Book Award.
Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2024 Book Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas...
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On Poetry as Historical Record, the Legacy of Colonialism, and Depicting...
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 Dorsía Smith Silva....
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Kathryn Davis Couldn’t Live Without Musicals and Writes Fiction Like a Piano...
Kathryn Davis’s novel, Versailles, is available now from Graywolf, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, alternate careers, and more. * Who do you most wish would read your book? I...
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The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most...
Mostafa Ibrahim is considered one of Egypt’s most prominent contemporary poets. Hailed by the late Ahmed Fouad Negm as his “heir to the throne of poetry,” Ibrahim is renowned for his groundbreaking...
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Meet the 2024 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 75th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Kate...
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Here are the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards…
After a long ceremony and lots of wonderful speeches about books, presenting the winners of the 2024 National Book Awards: YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between G.P. Putnam’s...
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Read Jody Chan’s Boycott Giller Speech
On Monday night, the gala for the Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award, took place at Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel. The Giller Foundation has been dogged by controversy for over a year...
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Announcing the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant...
Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that includes a...
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In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd...
Unnamed Press editors Brandon Taylor and Allison Smith’s just-launched imprint, Smith & Taylor Classicsc, was born from staff meeting conversations that kept leading back to a love of classic...
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Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of...
I subscribe to far too many newsletters. Most remain unopened. But for some reason, I decided to open one from David Byrne (probably because Mali was in the subject line, and it is #ReadingAfrica...
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Snapshots in Verse: On Hannah Arendt’s Long-Lost Poems
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 Samantha Rose Hill and...
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A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS
In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate...
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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024
In 2024, we were very demure, very mindful. We watched the Olympics, but mostly for the muffins. And Raygun. And the pommel horse guy. We played Connections. We held space for the lyrics of “Defying...
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Looking Back at the Long Year in Gaza
Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, which will soon enter its fifteenth month, has killed scores of Palestinian writers and journalists, obliterated the region’s cultural infrastructure, and sent shock...
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Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote
In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate...
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Our Favorite Lit Hub Stories from 2024
From essays to interviews, excerpts to blog posts, reading lists to poems, we publish a lot of good stuff at Lit Hub, if we do say so ourselves. And while we are proud of all of the pieces we’ve shared...
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The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2024
In 2024, Lit Hub published over 2,500 pieces: features, blog posts, reading lists, excerpts, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Here are the ones you loved (or at least clicked on) the most. And hey—if...
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Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024
This past year was as dismaying as it was disorienting (as was the year prior, as will be the year to come). As we collectively drown in a daily deluge of disinformation it is to books that we turn for...
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Notable Literary Deaths in 2024
To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * Poet, novelist, and critic Fred Chappell died on January 4 at the age of 87....
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A Constant Reinvention of Language: Looking Ahead to 2025 in Poetry
Happy New Year, Poetry Readers! I am happy to welcome Christopher Spaide as the new co-curator of this monthly poetry round-up. This year promises new collections from poets such as Henri Cole, Shane...
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