A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. Article continues after advertisement Well, we jinxed it last week by saying that there was only one more news story! Turns out 2024 isn’t done with us, thanks to
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Here are the 14 biggest WTF moments of 2024 in rock and metal. Every year is a wild year in heavy music. When we’re dealing with thousands of bands and an endless stream of tours, there’s bound to be some crazy stuff that happens. But these moments aren’t all just a byproduct of the road
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Sabrina Carpenter has talked about meeting Paul McCartney for the first time, comparing the experience to Stranger Things “but a lot happier”. READ MORE: Why is Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ taking over Spotify algorithms? On an episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week, Carpenter appeared as a guest to promote A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina
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After 14 seasons and 293 episodes on CBS, Blue Bloods’ Reagan family has offered its final salute and left the table, breaking up the Friday night dinner with NYPD Police Commission Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) and his family tradition for millions of viewers. (There was previously a mention of the potential of a spinoff over
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Bobby Farrelly directs ‘Champions.’ Preview: Bobby Farrelly will direct new comedy ‘Driver’s Ed’ The movie will see teens stealing their school’s driver’s ed car to go on a road trip. ‘Outer Banks’ co-creator Jonas Pate is developing the script with Thomas Moffett. Though last month’s ‘Dear Santa’ signaled a reunion for the Farrelly brothers ––
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Flying taxi startups have been raising a lot of money this year. Archer Aviation is on the list this week for another $430 million, making its total $660 million this year. The company’s latest fundraise was the second-largest this year for an electric aircraft startup. The largest was $500 million for Joby Aviation in October.
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Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2025 is here, and it’s Mocha Mousse. Yes, you read that right. A deep, sophisticated brown with just the right touch of warmth, Mocha Mousse is like the sartorial equivalent of a decadent chocolate pudding. It’s indulgent, rich, and undeniably chic. Frankly, I’m already going for my second serving.
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies.  The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of a band that transformed rock and roll forever. | Lit Hub Music “Something will enrage you and something will haunt you. And something will strike you as beautiful and true.” Derek Mong
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Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow Why read one holiday horror story when you could read 17? Christmas and Other Horrors, edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, features new horror stories about Christmas and the winter solstice by many of your favorite horror authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Josh Malerman,
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A striking new study published in Nature Communications by academic researchers Ya-Yen Sun, Futu Faturay, Manfred Lenzen, Stefan Gössling and James Higham has quantified a vast gulf in the carbon footprints of global travelers: Residents of high-income countries now generate more than 100 times the tourism-related emissions per person than those living in the world’s
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