TODAY: In 1892, the first issue of Vogue is published.
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Behold the 103 best book covers of the year, as picked by the experts. | Lit Hub
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How much pain should we tolerate for publicity? Or, when your book tour is interrupted by a near-death experience. | Lit Hub Memoir
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How Paul McCartney responded to the Beatles’ slow but inevitable disintegration. (Hint: Not joyfully.) | Lit Hub Music
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From the archives: Jan Morris talks travel, dictionaries, and other people’s diaries. | Lit Hub In Conversation
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Here is the best reviewed sci-fi, fantasy, and horror of 2022 (according to Book Marks). | Lit Hub
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A roundup of the best traditional mysteries of the year. | CrimeReads
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David Ulin writes a eulogy for Bookforum, a magazine that “sought to make connections beyond the page.” | Los Angeles Times
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“Where publishers really fail is going to the exact same customer over and over and over again.” Dispatches from a panel addressing diversity in publishing, featuring Min Jin Lee and Roxane Gay. | PEN America
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Read (and sign) the HarperCollins Union’s open letter. | HarperCollins Union
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Sophie Vershbow digs into how, exactly, a book becomes a New York Times bestseller. | Esquire
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“Le Carré attributed his skill as a writer, and as a spy, to a childhood under siege.” Sam Adler-Bell on John le Carré’s letters, and his lifelong struggle with his father’s legacy. | The Baffler
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Remembering lesbian pulp fiction author Marijane Meaker. | The Guardian
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Ann Patchett, Hua Hsu, Hernan Diaz, and others share highlights from their year in reading. | The Wall Street Journal
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“There is value in learning to feel as well as think, to be emotional even as we continue to pursue questions with rigor.” Imani Perry on rejecting “the gospel of objectivity.” | The Atlantic
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“Stories happen to be the most human thing we have to offer, right? Which means that the work that we’re doing in storytelling is actually human work.” Jason Reynolds reflects on being the national ambassador for young people’s literature. | NPR
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Katy Waldman deems 2022 the year of the sequel: “Authors crane their necks backward, in search of lost time, or money.” | The New Yorker
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Alina Stefanescu considers “the erotics of intellectual inquiry.” | Poetry
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Why is the US so ill-equipped to help adults who struggle with reading? | ProPublica
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“I think the literary scene today is extremely diverse and exploratory.” Jane Smiley recommends reading widely (and in a hot tub). | New York Times
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Naomi Gordon-Loebl considers Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the age of Ron DeSantis. | The Nation
Also on Lit Hub:
Ken Chen on the genius of Annie Ernaux • An incomplete list of the great literary minds we lost this year • For your holiday shopping: 50 gift books for everyone on your list, the 10 best cookbooks of the year, and 10 fun literary games • How Hollywood made J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI into the mythical “G-Men” • Considering CokeMachineGlow.com and the afterlife of the old, weird internet • On the optimistic visions of pregnancy and motherhood in Memoirs of a Spacewoman • Shahbaz Taseer recounts his first days of being held captive by terrorists • “One of the reasons it is easy to imagine Victorians on the Moon is that they imagined it themselves.” • An oral history of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly” • The lingering weight of race and policing in a Cincinnati neighborhood • The magic of writing at sunrise • The revolutionary found family of the Bloomsbury Group • How do you know if your short story should be a novel? • How activists and business leaders collaborated to improve Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1960s • The 13 best literary adaptations of 2022 • Priyanka Kumar on silencing the technology beast • Rabih Alameddine recommends the best (short) books he read in 2022 • Nick Riggle on the mysterious beauty of being alive (with wisdom from Ocean Vuong) • What makes writing valuable?