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Literary Hub serves as a central hub for literary culture, providing a reliable daily source for news, insights, and the vibrant world of contemporary literature. With an abundance of literary content available online today, it often becomes disorganized and hard to find. However, with the support of its editorial partners, Lit Hub offers readers a dependable platform for thoughtful, engaging, and enjoyable writing about everything related to books. Each day, in addition to original articles and exclusive excerpts, Literary Hub proudly presents an editorial feature from its diverse partners, which include publishers of all sizes, literary journals, bookstores, and non-profit organizations.

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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

1 day ago | lithub.com | Teddy Wayne

The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to:*Ross Barkan (Glass Century)Elizabeth Greenwood (Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice)Susanna Kwan (Awake in the Floating City)Lincoln Michel (Metallic Realms)Domenica Ruta (All the Mothers)*Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about?
Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

2 days ago | lithub.com | Mark Lynas

The day of the war dawns like any other. There is no warning, and across New York people are beginning their daily routines. No air raid sirens wail and no early-warning messages flash on screens. Cars are being backed out of garages in the suburbs, while kids wearing colorful backpacks wait for school buses outside the shops. Harassed moms stuff sandwiches into packed lunches while a million espresso machines grind on kitchen counters.
The Story of a Mother, From End to Beginning

2 days ago | lithub.com | Priscilla Gilman

Jill Bialosky, who was my editor for my recent memoir, The Critic’s Daughter, is a rara avis in the world of literature and publishing. An Executive Editor and Vice President at W.W. Norton & Company, an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist, Jill brings to everything she does an astute, incisive attention to nuance, a probing and fearless intelligence, a reverence for mystery. As an editor and a writer, Jill embodies what the romantic poet John Keats called negative capability.
One great short story to read today: madeline Ffitch’s “Seeing Through Maps”

5 days ago | lithub.com | Jonny Diamond

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?
You Don’t Have to Believe in God to Find Hope in Pope Leo

5 days ago | lithub.com | Aron Solomon

No matter your pew, prayer mat, meditation cushion, or lack thereof, something quietly seismic just happened on Thursday in Rome. A new Pope has emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, blinking into the sun like the start of a new chapter we didn’t know we needed. And while it’s tempting to dismiss papal elections as merely rituals for the devout, we’d be missing something essential—something almost electric—if we fail to notice what this moment actually offers the world at large.
What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

5 days ago | lithub.com | Abigail Leonard

“There you go,” Chelsea murmurs, laying her freshly bathed baby onto blue terry cloth. She negotiates Ada’s arms into a pale pink onesie and buttons it at her legs, still bent tight as a frog’s. Then she lifts Ada to cradle her soft head in the curve of her neck, delighting in the infant’s drowsy embrace. Article continues after advertisement“The first day I was still in shock, like surprised that I’m finally someone’s mother,” says Chelsea.
One great short story to read today: Marie-Helene Bertino’s “Viola in Midwinter”

6 days 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?
Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together

6 days ago | lithub.com | Michele Filgate

My father has untreated ADHD. Two years ago, at thirty-nine, I verified a longtime suspicion and was diagnosed with the same disorder. When we talk on the phone we talk at each other rather than to each other. Let me tell you something, my father says. Nancy makes the best meatballs. He tells me he fed some of the coveted leftover meatballs my stepmom made for him to a fox that frequents their yard. I think it’s sweet he shared them with a wild animal. I ran around the park today, I say.
On the Latest Threat to Literary Culture’s Fragile Ecosystem: Donald Trump

6 days ago | lithub.com | Maris Kreizman

There’s an ongoing crisis in book publishing. I mean, there are many, but corporate consolidation is a threat to anyone who cares about books. When there are fewer publishers, both large and small, there are fewer jobs, fewer opportunities for new voices to break out, fewer places where writers can be nurtured throughout their careers, and fewer places willing to take risks on ideas that diverge from the mainstream.
Hamilton Nolan on How To Write Op-Eds

6 days ago | lithub.com | Hamilton Nolan

Writer Hamilton Nolan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about opinion journalism. Nolan, who writes frequently about labor and politics, discusses how and why he entered journalism, the myth of objectivity, and how he views the relationship between activism and journalism. He explains how long it took for him to make money on Substack, reflects on what it means to share an opinion in the current political environment, and considers the importance of unions for writers.