1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (434+ words) Tom Perrotta, Ghost Town (Scribner) "As pure and clean as a wish, or a prayer." "Emma Straub Mary Lisa Gavenas, Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Viking) Emma Copley Eisenberg, Fat Swim (Hogarth) "A lush, radical meditation on the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (819+ words) When I was growing up, my mom talked to my older sisters and me about sex in the simplest of terms: If we had sex, our father would have no choice but to throw us out of the house. It…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (334+ words) Sophie Mackintosh's Permanence, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism, and Jayne Anne Phillips Small Town Girls all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by'Book Marks, Lit Hub's home for book reviews. 1. Permanence by Sophie…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (115+ words) Literary Hub Today, the New York Public Library announced the finalists for its Young Lions Fiction Award, which celebrates fiction by "exceptional early-career authors" (read: 35 years old or younger). This year's judges are Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Raven Leilani, and Alexander…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (454+ words) Our favorite criticism of the week includes Matt Mc Manus on Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism, Katie Kitamura on Sophie Mackintosh's Permanence, Chris Vognar on Craig Fehrman's This Vast Enterprise, Barbara Spindel on Mary Lisa Gavenas's Selling Opportunity, and…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (148+ words) Literary Hub Today, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which awards $150, 000 annually to women and non-binary writers with books published in Canada and the US, announced its 2026 shortlist. The nominated writers were chosen for their "creativity and excellence" by a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (532+ words) Jayne Anne Phillips, Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir (Knopf) "Jayne Anne Phillips writes prose that reads like plainspoken poetry, full of startling and vivid images that bring a vanished world back to life before our eyes." "Tom Perrotta Xochitl…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (295+ words) Today, to coincide with the beginning of National Library Week, the American Library Association (ALA) has released its list of the 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025, which is part of their annual State of America's Libraries Report. In 2025, 4, 235 different titles were…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (396+ words) In a ceremony on Wednesday night, the Whiting Foundation announced the ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award for Emerging Writers. The award comes with a $50, 000 purse to recognize the recipients" "outstanding accomplishments and promise," and is often seen as a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (141+ words) Literary Hub Here are the winners of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Today, the Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the country's "only endowed juried prize dedicated to literature that contributes to our understanding of race…...