Literature

Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru I’m adding this to the growing list of books about artists coming out lately. Here, Jay’s previously promising career as an artist fresh out of his London art school program has sputtered into an existence of working without documentation in the U.S. While living out of his car, he delivers

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1925, Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is published.   Hari Kunzru, Freud, System of a Down, and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Barnes & Noble announced the 24 titles in March being considered for the honor of being named the best in the 2024 Barnes & Noble Children’s & Young Adult Book Awards. The annual award highlights the best talent

May 13, 2024, 2:56pm For the past two years, the novelist Alice Elliott Dark has been sending out missives on the writing and reading life via her popular weekly Substack, “Alice on Sunday.” But this March, Dark applied her platform to a curious task: recapping and analyzing old episodes of HBO’s Girls.  The project began

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Merry MerMay! MerMay is most known as an art challenge, where participants make a mermaid-themed piece of art every day based on prompts. Here are the 2024 daily MerMay prompts, including #Kaiju #Feline #CoastalGrandma and so many more.

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1907, Daphne du Maurier is born.   “I had assumed my mother had written a novel about real estate—after all the title was A Hot Property…” Kate Feiffer on reading her mother’s x-rated novel and considering female-authored erotica as a form of social critique. |

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her free time reading, watching horror

Saturday was a gloriously beautiful spring day in Chicago, and as I wandered into the “Liberation Zone” which has taken over DePaul University’s quad, a kind lady asked me if I would like some lunch. I declined because I was headed to a BBQ in a couple of hours, but I took her up on

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Amazon is having a book sale May 15-20th, including deals on both physical (hardcover and paperback) books as well as Kindle titles. Some of these sales have started early, though. You can browse them on the Amazon Book

May 10, 2024, 10:30am According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free* to read online, every (work) day of the month. Why

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May 10, 2024, 11:41am Images from Montclair Film and Bernard Gotfryd Ben Stiller is set to play writer Norman Mailer alongside Oscar-nominated-and-robbed actor Colin Farrell in the upcoming Belly of The Beast. The movie is set to be directed by Andrew Haigh of All of Us Strangers fame, and co-adapted by Haigh and Alexis Jolly,

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TODAY: In 1926, C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time.   “Students and elders were sharing their religious traditions and experiences, in a common cause of love and justice to combat American empire.” Steven Thrasher visits Gaza Solidarity Camps in Chicago and New York and talks to students. | Lit Hub

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May 10, 2024, 1:28pm Yesterday afternoon, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys) announced that he would no longer be giving the commencement address at University of Massachusetts Amherst on May 18, citing the administration’s decision to call the police on campus protesters. “I was looking forward to speaking next

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1849, The Astor Place Riot takes place in Manhattan over a dispute between two Shakespearean actors, the American Edwin Forrest and the Englishman William Macready. Over 20 people are killed.  “I began searching for the memories of people of color—migrant, immigrant, enslaved, and native people