#Literary

Who chooses the poems featured on the New York City subway? Meet the people behind Poetry in Motion. | Lit Hub Design Rebecca Birrell considers Jane Eyre, Lily Briscoe, and writing about amateur wo…

Meet the authors shortlisted for the 2026 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. | Lit Hub In Conversation Was Cormac McCarthy that guy in your MFA? | Lit Hub Craft We promise: you really don’t need…

Kenneth Atchity, “The Meg” producer and literary agent, died on Monday. He was 82. Across his career as a literary manager, producer and writer, Atchity produced more than 30 films; wrote over 20 books; negotiated publishing and entertainment deals; and…

The most famous person who hid in an attic in the Netherlands from the Nazis during World War II is Anne Frank, whose diary became a posthumous literary sensation.…

The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize was caught in a storm over charges of AI use in its winning entries.

The works of this year's Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist Anne Carson can feel slightly daunting. Here are some keys to understanding her universe.

Lessons in living in the Anthropocene (from the world’s most pessimistic climate writer). | Lit Hub Criticism Dear Hollywood: please stop hot-washing your literary adaptations. | Lit Hub On Anthony…

From Bookriot RSS Feed: There’s a Season 3 of Good Omens, Even After All of the Neil Gaiman Accusations

Lilian Pizzichini searches for the Elsa Schiaparelli dress from Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. | Lit Hub Art “In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very …

“It is absurd that people who look and pray like me and my cousins and uncles, with hearts that could fit in my chest, will die today from bombs forged and dropped by my tax dollars.” Kaveh Akbar c…

Omer Aziz examines parallel spectacles of fascism in Nazi Germany and present-day America. | Lit Hub History On Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and the American prose and poetry renaissance of the 18…

I spent years as a story editor at a film production company and before that at a literary agency. My whole job was reading, evaluating structure, character, voice.…

Who actually first said “Be the change want to see happen,” and what does it have to do with the clash between progressive activism and New Age spirituality? | Lit Hub Politics “When I meet new peo…

Meet Scott Meredith, the literary agent who invented the book auction. | Lit Hub History Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and the American prose and poetry renaissance of the 1850s. | Lit Hub Criticis…

At a ceremony last night, Aspen Words announced the winner of their annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, which awards $35,000 to “a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue a…

Anyone who has ever emerged from a multiday academic conference will recognize this truth: as the sun sets on the jetsam of crumpled programs and the custodians vacuum the carpet, you set out for the bus station or the airport and wonder what, and whom,…

Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique joy in wondering about what we don’t know.

The perfect gift guide (for mothers who are writers). | Lit Hub “Possibly the greatest lesson I got from the zine is that writing is about community.” How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.…