Literature

The Alabama Public Library Service has voted not to renew its American Library Association (ALA) membership. This comes after some in the state have accused the ALA — the oldest and largest library association in the world — of promoting Marxism, supporting keeping sexual content in libraries, and discriminating against religious organizations. In October, Governor

January 31, 2024, 3:56pm Two prominent novelists have broken with PEN America over the organization’s decision to platform controversial actor and outspoken ceasefire opponent Mayim Bialik, as well as its relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza (which so far has claimed the lives of at least 120 writers, poets, and journalists). National Book Award finalist

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1935, Japanese author and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe is born.  “The entire measure of someone’s commitment is how much they post about their commitment.” Rebecca Solnit on how to comment on social media. | Lit Hub Paradise Lost: How the transatlantic slave trade helped

Susie (she/her) is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, now living in Washington, DC. She is the author of QUEERLY BELOVED and the forthcoming LOOKING FOR A SIGN from Dial Press/Random House. You can find her on Instagram @susiedoom. View All posts by Susie Dumond Are you looking for the best queer books 2024

Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused on creating safe spaces for queer teens, mentorship, and providing test prep instruction free to students. Outside

The following is from Kiley Reid’s Come and Get It. Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an

Forty years ago, Padgett Powell’s erudite coming of age novel Edisto was released and introduced readers to a 12-year-old literary prodigy named Simons Everson Manigault. Following an acrimonious separation between the “Duchess” and the “Progenitor” (Simons’ parents), the young boy finds himself living in the Manigault summer home in Edisto, South Carolina while his mother descends

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Writers in times of crisis must organize. Toni Morrison reminds us that it’s time to get to work. Get the coffee brewing. Sharpen your pencil to a point and try your best not to digress with unnecessary trite. Fair, there is a lot to say

When I was twenty-one, I became friends with a group of models living in London and for a while we ran wild together, night after night in the city. The champagne was endless, the venues exclusive, and the stories they told me were spectacular. They were stories of excessive fees paid for lunch dates and

I have heard that some people turn to the last page of a book before they begin reading, in order to assure themselves that everything turns out well in the end. I myself can handle an uncertain outcome, but I cannot begin a book without first reading the acknowledgements. The acknowledgements are where you find

TODAY: In 1941, James Joyce dies in Zurich after surgery for a perforated ulcer. Death Mask courtesy of the Little Museum in Dublin, Ireland.  “Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.” Rebecca Solnit on the radical possibilities of slow change. | Lit Hub Politics Murder, mayhem, moonstruck

January 12, 2024, 2:02pm Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is one of the few major Hollywood actors to publicly and repeatedly call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The star of Moonlight, True Detective, and Leave the World Behind signed the Artists 4 Ceasefire letter back in October, and has made multiple pleas for an end

I am nothing if not a diligent student, so when my therapist, Mitchell asks me to track my headaches, think about what I hope to gain from an open marriage, and talk to my mother about the one she had, I take my homework seriously. I track my migraines, but it’s hard to find a

January 16, 2024, 11:37am It’s safe to say that we were awash in adaptations of The Great Gatsby even before the copyright expired at the end of 2020—from opera to ballet to stage to film to video games to radio, not to mention television and er, film. But since then, the re-envisionings (or at least

Nature discovered only one method of producing and arranging living matter. There is, however, another, simpler, more malleable, and quicker method, one that nature has never made use of. This other method, which also has the potential to develop life, is the one I discovered today. Any scientist, especially one who works in the artificial

The following is the first chapter from Michele Mari’s novel Verdigris. Mari is one of Italy’s most renowned contemporary writers. He has published ten novels, in addition to several short story and poetry collections, and has received prestigious awards including the the Bagutta Prize, the Mondello Prize and the Selezione Campiello Prize. In a survey