Belarus has banned the sale of 1984.
In very 1984 news, Belarus has banned the sale of 1984. Belarusian weekly newspaper, Nasha Niva, reported that security forces detained Andrei Yanushkevich,...
Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up)
It’s springtime again in New York City, which makes me think of You’ve Got Mail. “You don’t want to miss New York in the spring,” Joe Fox (Tom Hanks)...
A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.
Phew. Thanks to the intrepid work of books valuer Jim Spencer (at an antiques show in the surely-it-must-be-charming Moreton-in-Marsh), we’ll finally have a...
Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future
On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Don Winslow to discuss his latest book, City on Fire, out now from William...
Lit Hub Daily: May 20, 2022
TODAY: In 1946, W. H. Auden becomes a US Citizen. “Now my job is to read reports. To know everything. As if knowing everything will help.” Two essays...
Is National Service the Only Way to Stitch America Back Together?
Another week in America, another racist mass murder. Last Saturday’s abomination in Buffalo only seems to confirm Canadian writer Stephen Marche’s grim...
Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us
I first met Natalie Diaz during the fall of 2015 when we were both in a writing residency in the high, arid desert of far west Texas. During that time in...
Behind the Scenes of Ready to Die: An Excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
The following is an excerpt from It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him. * Biggie Smalls’ (aka The Notorious B.I.G. aka Christroper...
On the Early Days of Life in the Sky as a Stewardess
Men wore jackets and ties; women accessorized their outfits with matching shoes and handbags. I had to find something that made me look stylish, older,...
