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Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

Spooky season is upon us again. (At least if you’re in the Northeast corridor.) So this week, Lit Hubbers enjoyed autumnal fare. I’m talking leaf-peeping, and freaky Fridays. We’ve got reflection and hibernation on the brain. Whether that means hunkering Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Everything you need to know about Axl Rose's graphic novel.

What a time to be alive, for starters! Axl Rose, the notorious Guns N’ Roses frontman, is turning his talents to the graphic novel. In a new collaboration with Sumerian Comics, a Tennessee publisher with Simon & Schuster distribution, Mr. Read more >

By Brittany Allen

The Body Keeps The Score sequel just got an eight figure deal.

I’ll save you the counting on your fingers: that’s a minimum of $10 million. It’s a boggling amount of money, enough to make you crack a filling. This mondo deal was announced yesterday, and includes a new book by Bessel Read more >

By James Folta

The dentist should let you read instead of watch TV.

It’s become the default to have a screen on in every room of a dentist’s office. When I was a kid, the TV was perched in a ceiling corner, like a stuffed owl in a Hitchcock movie, but over the Read more >

By James Folta

Where to start with the writing of Jamaica Kincaid.

This summer, the novelist and essayist Jamaica Kincaid released a career-spanning collection. Covering forty years—from her early days as a precocious New Yorker staff writer to her present perch as a “fiery postcolonial critic”—the work in Putting Myself Together describes Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

Literary fiction-heads (as LH devotees usually are) must celebrate: new Brandon Taylor AND Megha Majumdar in one week?! Not to mention exciting, unputdownable novels by Quan Barry, Anna North, Adam Johnson, and a selection of compelling and masterful stories by Read more >

By Julia Hass

This week's news in Venn diagrams.

Fittingly for the news of a new Moomin movie this week, today is Finnish Literature Day. Maybe break out some Tove Jansson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, or Väinö Linna this weekend to celebrate? Or go all the way back and read Read more >

By James Folta

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

Get in, Lit Hubbers. We’re going…everywhere. The whole staff is skipping into fall with an eye to adventure. We’re picking apples and pumpkins. We’re bringing abroad stateside, and the Deep Sea to the surface. I, Brittany Allen, have been really Read more >

By Brittany Allen

New York’s largest ICE detention camp is blocking book deliveries.

ICE is depraved, and every day they seem to find new ways to lash out. Their incompetence—from out-of-shape squadristi getting embarrassed in Chicago to the poorly written snivelings of racist pencil eraser Stephen Miller—hasn’t hampered their ability to hurt our Read more >

By James Folta

László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Today, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, for “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” Krasznahorkai is one of international Read more >

By Emily Temple

Here are the winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize.

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize, in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. These winners were selected from a list of finalists, announced in August, Read more >

By Literary Hub

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercepted by the IDF. In a video posted to her Read more >

By Dan Sheehan

HarperCollins UK is pulling copies of a book that alleges Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump.

HarperCollins UK is pulping copies of a recently published book about Prince Andrew over unsubstantiated rumors that have maddened the Trumps, according to The Hill, Axios, and others. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Read more >

By James Folta

A new Moomins movie is on the way.

Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing in books, comics, TV series, movies, and theme parks Read more >

By James Folta

Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner Read more >

By Literary Hub

Thomas Pynchon, Marisa Meltzer, Chris Kraus, and more: 24 new books out today!

The clock struck October, and with it, we welcomed in a slew of meaty, fascinating, and binge-worthy books. At long last, Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, a much-anticipated work by the 88-year-old author is released. In other fiction news, there’s a Read more >

By Julia Hass

The House of Leaves-inspired game MyHouse.wad is just as trippy as you'd think.

This demon shooting video game mod might be your new favorite book. MyHouse.wad is a 2023 mod—short for modification, in this case a series of custom levels—for 1994’s Doom II, the second in a franchise of wildly influential games that Read more >

By James Folta

Here are the most banned books of 2025.

As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectionable” titles may surprise you. If we consider censored books by theme, critique of an Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Guess which top college is launching a “creator economy” program?

I’ll give you a hint. They bleed orange and blue and Dinosaur B-B-Q. Last week, Syracuse University announced the launch of a new Center for the Creator Economy. The first academic hub of its kind on a U.S. college campus, Read more >

By Brittany Allen

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the Nazi concentration camp at Read more >

By Jonny Diamond

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