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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16h

“That summer, they threw bombs and made signs for peace.” Read from Brandon Taylor’s new novel, Minor Black Figures.

That summer, they threw bombs and made signs for peace. They went into the streets and the parks and the squares, the same as they had done two years before, and three years before that, and six ye…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 17h

@janeciab.bsky.social talks to award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Quan Barry about writing a horror story set in Antarctica.

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry is an award-winning playwright (and poet) as well as a novelist, skills which show in the virtuosity of the ensemble of characters she has created in The Unveiling. Her primary narrator …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 18h

This week’s new titles include books by Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more!
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Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more: 27 new books out today!

Literary fiction-heads (as LH devotees usually are) must celebrate: new Brandon Taylor AND Megha Majumdar in one week?! Not to mention exciting, unputdownable novels by Quan Barry, Anna North, Adam…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19h

Terry McDonell and @lancerichardson.bsky.social discuss Peter Matthiessen’s moral ambiguity and interest in Bigfoot.

Who Was Peter Matthiessen, Really?

Lance Richardson began his biography of Peter Matthiessen in 2017, at one point following Matthiessen’s 1973 Himalayan trek in pursuit of enlightenment in The Snow Leopard, as well as conducting mo…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20h

Remembering Courtney Kampa through a posthumous collection capturing her vibrant life and creative ethos.

Poetry for Everyone: Remembering Courtney Kampa

Courtney collected small happinesses. Red lipstick. The permanent kiss-mark on a dog’s face. Scrawling a line of poetry on a mirror in a public place. The art of forgiveness. Music. Ballet. The peo…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20h

“Those who returned home having come close to death would find it difficult, if not impossible, to leave the war behind them and readjust to civilian life.” David Nasaw delves into the physical and mental trauma of the Second World War.

On the Terrible Toll of the Last Bloody Year of WWII

The cost of the invasion in matériel and lives lost was enormous, but Allied troops were now planted on French soil. To guard against undue optimism that the war in Europe would soon be over, the w…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 21h

Lukas Gage recommends his favorite celebrity memoirs by Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, and more!

Lukas Gage Recommends His Favorite Celebrity Memoirs

Memoirs have always been a favorite genre of mine. There’s something about seeing people completely overshare, especially in the areas the bad, the ugly, or the “failures” that makes me feel less i…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 21h

“I should have been a doctor like Chekhov!” Megha Majumdar, Julia Ioffe, Erin Somers and more authors answer our burning questions.

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Grady Chambers (Great Disasters) Julia Ioffe (Motherland: A…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 22h

58 books you need to read (recommended by 42 writers, editors, and booksellers in honor of our 10th birthday!).

58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 1d

“I think that love is always constructive, even when some things fall apart. I think my mother is a great example of that…”—Sasha Bonét in convo with G’Ra Asim @literaryhub.bsky.social buff.ly/6sSoHYV

Sasha Bonét on Black Motherhood, Fragmented Storytelling, and Untangling History

I met my former MFA classmate Sasha Bonét on Admitted Student Night in the spring of 2014. I recognized her as a force of nature on sight. It couldn’t be more fitting that her new book finds her tr…

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 23h

Post-Israel Palestine, 2048. The new streets’ names not only reflected the joy of liberation but also celebrated living in dignity, equality, and without fear. 🍉 #FreePalestine @literaryhub.bsky.social

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

Moomins fans, rejoice!

A new Moomins movie is on the way.

Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing …

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

“Melania’s folks claim the real meet-creep, as it were, happened at the Kit Kat Club in 1998 and that Epstein wasn’t the one who made the introduction.”

HarperCollins UK is pulling copies of a book that alleges Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump.

HarperCollins UK is pulping copies of a recently published book about Prince Andrew over unsubstantiated rumors that have maddened the Trumps, according to The Hill, Axios, and others. Entitled: Th…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was abducted and detained after her aid flotilla was intercepted by the IDF.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d

The Buffalo Federal Detention Facility abruptly stopped accepting book deliveries for detainees in July.

New York’s largest ICE detention camp is blocking book deliveries.

ICE is depraved, and every day they seem to find new ways to lash out. Their incompetence—from out-of-shape squadristi getting embarrassed in Chicago to the poorly written snivelings of racist penc…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d

You should use these Venns to catch up on the news (especially if you like Moomins).

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

Fittingly for the news of a new Moomin movie this week, today is Finnish Literature Day. Maybe break out some Tove Jansson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, or Väinö Linna this weekend to celebrate? Or go al…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3d

Hammer & Hope, Octoberfest, the National Aquarium, and more! These are the things that made us happy this week!

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

Get in, Lit Hubbers. We’re going…everywhere. The whole staff is skipping into fall with an eye to adventure. We’re picking apples and pumpkins. We’re bringing abroad statesi…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s even colder than I’d expected, a blow that knits my muscles together.” Read from Anbara Salam’s new novel, The Salvage.

The Salvage

It’s even colder than I’d expected, a blow that knits my muscles together. Pushing all my strength into kick kick kick I swim down down, concentrating only on moving. My heart is racing from the sl…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

Marta Figlerowicz looks for lessons (and hope!) in the writing of Maria Janion.

Finding Grim Lessons of the 20th Century (and a Little Hope) in the Writing of Maria Janion

I came across Maria Janion’s Uncanny Slavdom on the verge of the 2020 lockdown. The title caught my eye. Sigmund Freud defines the uncanny as the nagging presence of the familiar within the strange…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, and John Banville’s Venetian Vespers all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, John Banville, and more

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

Amid a government shutdown, Robert S. Levine examines why Trump can’t erase the abolitionist history of Harpers Ferry.

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail)

In the early days of September, at a more gentle time before the government shutdown, President Trump ordered the removal of “corrosive ideology” from all national parks, by which he meant all sign…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

What a 1977 Czech writers’ manifesto can teach us about “America’s decades-long drift into authoritarianism.”

How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025

The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 5d

went on the @literaryhub.bsky.social pod to talk Pynch 🧨 with @drewsof.bsky.social 🔥

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 4d

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4d

Hannah Bonner talks to director Nia DaCosta about Hedda, her adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play: “The desire for power is this animal urge inside us, and if we were more capable to engage in our fallibility because we are animals I think we would probably be in a better place.”

What Hedda Reveals About the Timelessness of Feminine Rage

In Nia DaCosta’s vespertine parlor drama Hedda, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play Hedda Gabler, Tessa Thompson transfixes in the titular role. The film takes place in 1954 almost exclusivel…

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