George Saunders meets Thor in the first trailer for Spiderhead.
Here’s a cool one. The first trailer for Spiderhead, the hotly-anticipated (around the Lit Hub water cooler, at least) Netflix film based on George...
Someone wants to pay you $200 for every novel you read.
In good news for—likely every reader on this website, a company called WordsRated is looking for “Bibliofile-at-large” (i.e. contractors) to… read...
Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah
The following remarks were delivered as a part of the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers held at the UN last week. * “What makes people,...
19 new books to savor this week.
Available at indies bookstores and local libraries everywhere! * Phil Klay, Uncertain Ground (Penguin Press) “An introspective collection of essays …...
Exclusive cover reveal: Animals, a new issue of Freeman’s.
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for the latest issue of Freeman’s, “Animals,” which will be published by Grove Press in October. The issue, which...
How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction
Sometimes in interviews I catch myself speaking of my book of short stories about the Iraq War as though it is a kind of literary journalism. I want people to...
Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms
“I’d like to go back to the little rooms now. Aren’t there still the little rooms where we can be?” –Joy Williams, Harrow * Among the withering...
Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch
One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can wear whatever you want—think of Grady Trip’s bathrobe in Wonder Boys, comfort over all. However,...
Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella
Penelope Fitzgerald wrote novellas. So did Caroline Blackwood, J.L. Carr, Edith Wharton, and so do I. I never mean to. I don’t start out thinking...
