We’re ten days into the 30th National Poetry Month—perhaps you’ve seen our poem-of-the-day feature—and it’s gotten me into a lyrical mood. In that vein, I picked up and became instantly enraptured by John Berger’s And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief Read more >
Another Friday, another opportunity for gratitude. We at Lit Hub have been living to laugh and laughing to live. Two weeks ago, Drew Broussard went to see an author friend (Sam Rebelein) read a chunk of his new novel aloud this week.">Read more >
School, meet streaming. This spring, the nerdy nostalgist can find several depictions of campus life on their small screen. On Netflix, the adaptation of Julia May Jonas’ Vladimir draws us down a well of dark academia. And on HBO, we have 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 >
The eight winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes literary achievement and promise in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an 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 >
In 2024, Haymarket Books, along with the Mellon Foundation, launched a new fellowship aimed at supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the criminal legal system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. Today, they’ve announced their third annual cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose Read more >
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the 2026 recipients of its annual 5 Under 35 award, which honors fiction writers under the age of 35 “whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape.” Each 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 >
The National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2), a group launched last Juneteenth by Kevin Johnson of Sacramento’s Underground Books, has announced a new holiday: National Black Bookstore Day. As Publishers Weekly reported this morning, this first-of-its-kind national observance means to 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 Li-Young Lee’s “From Blossoms”">Read more >
We’ve turned a corner in our seasons, in warmth, in attitude, in literature. It’s a great time for fiction lovers, as we welcome in a new Ben Lerner, Emma Straub, and Rachel Khong all in one day. Lest we forget 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 >
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 The Corrections is finally coming to Netflix.">Read more >
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