It’s April on the east coast, and we’re starting to get glimpses of beauty amid the chilled damp. Everyone knows Eliot’s description of April as the cruelest month: “Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” I feel you, brother. Read more >
As the internet noted earlier this week—and Claire Guinan at Jezebel observed yesterday—Vice President JD Vance may have a plagiarism problem. (Among his many others.) On Tuesday, the man with the most hillbilly blood on his hands announced a new Read more >
Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attempted to lasso that late modernist moon for a much-hyped HBO mini-series Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
You may know her as a Grammy winning pop star, best at baiting hooks that keep Barbie in a trance. But these days you’re just as likely to know Dua Lipa for her second job: bookfluencer. The British impresario founded Read more >
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed, and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. The Gales Read more >
The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday’s Chicago, the archive’s hunt for “living Rosetta stones” first kicked off in 2013, when the Newberry launched a campaign to transcribe Read more >
Lately, there’s been a spate of revelations about AI users slipping slop-assisted work past human editors. First there was Shy Girl, the horror novel pulled by its publisher once they realized it had been largely AI-generated. Editors failed to see Read more >
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of Read more >
André Alexis has won the 2025 Story Prize, an annual award for short fiction, for his collection Other Worlds (FSG Originals). Other Worlds was selected from the Story Prize shortlist (which also included Lydia Millet’s Atavists and Ayşegül Savaş’s Long Read more >
As if to prove his point, the Nobel-winning mage who wrote “the times, they are a-changing,” has finally joined Patreon. As Pitchfork reported yesterday, Bob Dylan—aka Zimmy, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury—has made a new personal account on the pay-to-play hosting Read more >
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize is out today, and it includes many books published by women and independent presses, two debuts, and writers from eight nationalities and four continents. The International Booker celebrates fiction and collections that have Read more >
We’re at the bitter end of March, and here to usher in the closing of the dreary winter, and welcome in the tidings of April, there are more than a few big books arriving on this new books Tuesday. Let’s Read more >
April approaches, and with it comes a bevy of new books to look out for, balms in a year of astonishing chaos and uncertainty, and so I’m delighted to share some novels, memoirs, essay collections, explorations, and more to spend Read more >
Inspired by something Drew said on The Lit Hub podcast, I’ve been rethinking how I’m organizing the books I want to read, and trying to cull a little by being a little more honest about what I’m actually going to Read more >
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