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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. ‘Twas the episode before Christmas and all through the studioNot a sound could be heard—not even ‘Sussudio’ To close out the year, a new holiday tradition: Jonny Diamond reads […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Bloom is Off Following a press tour that managed to be more fraught than the rollout of […]
In its early days, “The Word of the Year” was drawn from the idiolect of policy makers and columnists, those who set the tone of conversation in the public sphere. With the rise of social media, “The Word of the Year” has been somewhat democratized. If dictionaries, especially the Oxford English Dictionary, privilege the written […]
The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 It is one of the greater strangeness of New York City that it’s libraries are more a confederation that an an integrated system, but one interesting effect is that because of this, data is collected by borough, which shows how the different parts of the […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1904, the first of Virginia Woolf’s writings to be accepted for publication, “Haworth, November 1904,” an account of a visit to the Brontë family home, is published anonymously in a women’s supplement to a clerical journal, The Guardian. Who should you ask about the best […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I read a lot of queer books—that probably won’t come as a surprise to you. That means it’s inevitable that I’ll pick up some queer books I don’t like, but I usually keep that to myself. I’d rather […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1968, John Steinbeck dies. These are 50 of 2024’s best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists In case you need something to do between now and the new year, these are our […]
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Most Borrowed Books in New York City Libraries in 2024 It is one of the greater strangeness of New York City that it’s libraries are more a confederation that an an integrated system, but […]
December 18, 2024, 2:29pm That’s right, reader. A new film is putting a sly spin on the patron saint of emo kids. Even before it made the enduring mold for a certain sort of sad boy—never forget that Dan “Gossip Girl” Humphrey was a mega-Werther fan—Goethe’s romantic tragedy rocked the literary world on its publication […]
While I’ve been a lifelong lover of books, I’ve also been a serial not-finisher of them. I know we all have a DNF pile by the end of the year, and I still do, but it wasn’t until I started at Book Riot that that pile got a lot less substantial. Now, my attention span […]
