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Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

4 days ago | lithub.com | Jane Ciabattari

Hal Ebbott’s extraordinary first novel, Among Friends, opens with a brief prelude in which the two friends, Amos and Emerson, meet in college. It’s August, only athletes have returned. “In the distance, boys sweep across sharp, nearly cut grass. The ball predicts their turns; sweat spreads like moss on their shirts. Eventually they will stop and come up the hill, their smiles brilliant, exhausted. One pushes another.
Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV Lord of the Flies! 22 new books out today.

4 days ago | lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot

June is nearing its end, and though I come bearing no good news about the fate of the world—it remains as destructively chaotic as last week, if not more so—I do come bearing some good tidings: that new books are here. Below, you’ll find twenty-two excellent choices to consider as alternatives to, or palliatives for, the tragedies of the day-to-day.
Michelle Huneven on Writing a Polyphonic, Decade-Spanning Family Saga

1 week ago | lithub.com | Jane Ciabattari

Michelle Huneven’s captivating new novel, her sixth, is a wonder, a California-based family drama that builds a masterful collage of character and connection. Bug Hollow is set in Altadena, where Huneven was born and raised and lived until she went away to college, ultimately ending up with an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In 2001 she bought a house a mile due east of her childhood home and moved in the day before 9/11.
Toni Morrison! Joyce Carol Oates! Britney and Beyoncé! 27 new books out today.

1 week ago | lithub.com | Gabrielle Bellot

The summer continues on, a summer already marked by corybantic chaos in America and abroad. Sometimes, I must admit, it feels so strange to see the horrors of the world in one moment and think about recommending books in the next. And yet the truth is that this is part of how we make it through this long dark night of a nation.
Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

1 week ago | lithub.com | Robert Baird

I arrived at Stanford in the fall of 1996 with every intention of becoming a mechanical engineer and none of being a writer. Though I’d been a voracious reader since childhood, my tastes steered wide of anything that looked too literary. In elementary school I loved Madeleine L’Engle, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien. In junior high I read every airport blockbuster by Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Michael Crichton that I could get my hands on.
“No One Makes ‘Yo Mama’ Jokes After the Funeral.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the Power of Unexpected Humor

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Hanif Abdurraqib

No One Makes “Yo Mama” Jokes After the FuneralArticle continues after advertisementWhich is its own kind of joke. I don’t make the rules about the decorum of the dozens, but I got good at the dozens because I knew I didn’t want to fight. I could have fought, probably. I was the youngest of four, with two aggressive older brothers, and so I got my ass kicked plenty, and through a series of ass-whuppins, one learns how to at least hold one’s own. At least survive.
Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Martin Padgett

Michael Hardwick and Dwight Sawyer stood before the judge in Atlanta Municipal Court on August 4, 1982 during a preliminary hearing and pled not guilty to charges of sodomy and solicitation, then began to look for help. They needed someone to get them out of trouble. Article continues after advertisementBefore the next hearing, scheduled for September 14, they made trip after trip to the courthouse to request that the cases be dismissed, with no luck.
The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Emily Temple

It’s finally starting to feel like summer on the East Coast. To wit: the forearms are out, and so are the reading lists. To find out which books everyone is reading and recommending this season (as is my wont), I read 35 summer reading lists from 31 publications, counted up all the books, and tallied them together for you here. This year, those 35 lists (which are themselves listed at the bottom of this post), recommended a total of 540 individual books.
Tired of Telling Just One Kind of Truth: On Moving from Journalism to Fiction

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Janelle Brown

I gave up journalism and started writing novels because I was tired of telling the truth. Article continues after advertisement….This is a punchline I’ve used over the years whenever I’m asked about my career transition from being a reporter to writing fiction, and it almost always gets a laugh. It’s not quite accurate—there were many, many reasons why I switched from journalism to fiction—but there is certainly a painful honesty about this statement that reflects my failings as a reporter.
Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | John Seabrook

My London-born great-grandfather, Arthur P. Seabrook, emigrated to the United States at the age of five. He arrived with his family at the Battery, on the southern tip of Manhattan, in January 1859. Over the next three generations, Arthur’s fifty-eight acres of vegetable and produce fields in southern New Jersey became the largest farm in state history.