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1 week ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free* to read online, every (work) day of the month. Why not read along with us?
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1 week ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
Earlier today, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced and Percival Everett’s James was declared the winner for fiction. This came as no surprise to anybody even vaguely tapped into the literary scene: in addition to winning the National Book Award for Fiction, James won the Kirkus Prize and was a finalist for the Booker Prize, garnering rave reviews across the board. As I was listening to the prizes being read out today, I was struck by something else: there were four finalists.
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2 weeks ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the third year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free* to read online, every (work) day of the month. Why not read along with us?
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3 weeks ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
Following Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s widely publicized and false claims about autism, writer Jodie Hare joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about the politics of neurodiversity and the importance of autistic communities. Hare, who was diagnosed as autistic in adulthood, explains how the pathologization of the autistic population is historically connected to industrialization and capitalism.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
On this day, approximately 6175 years ago, Frodo Baggins completed his quest to return the One Ring to the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged. The exact details have been muddled by time and legend—reports of Baggins’s ultimate corruption by the Ring are unsubstantiated and fiercely denied by his estate to this day—but we can all celebrate the end result: the final destruction of Sauron, the fall of Barad-dûr, and the restoration of good across the land.
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1 month ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard |Hazel Jane Plante
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small press book that they love. The only rule of this game is that there are no rules, except that the books we recommend must have been published, at some time, and in some place, by a small press.
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
For our Villains Bracket week, a few Lit Hub staffers wrote a little bit on their favorite villain from our initial group of 64. Here’s Drew on Randall Flagg from Stephen King’s work. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Say thankee, there are few sentences, opening or otherwise, that will live as strongly in my mind until the end of time as that one. The gunslinger, of course, is Roland Deschain—but who is the man in black?
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2 months ago | 
lithub.com | Drew Broussard
Folks, the time has come to stop linking to Amazon. For good. Article continues after advertisementIf you’re reading this site, you likely already knew this in your heart. And I’m actually not here to give you the litany of reasons why Amazon’s extractive capitalism, aggressive union-busting, take-no-prisoners monopolization of not just books but basically all commerce, and Jeff Bezos’s insistence on using his ill-gotten gains to support the fascist takeover of the country are bad.
