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Lit Hub Daily: November 7, 2023
TODAY: In 1881, Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson, one of the first women to head a major daily newspaper (the Washington Times-Herald), is born. Also on Lit Hub: Sigrid Nunez on the process of writing a pandemic novel • Salar Abdoh on where fiction ends and reality begins • Read from The Collected Stories of Dylan…
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The best fantasy novels to read
Fantasy is having a bit of a moment, with sales in this genre the second biggest growing book category just behind romance. Why is it so popular? At its best, fantasy helps us think through and process our real world. A sprawling genre, in 2023 fantasy includes everything from cosy atmospheres to magical detectives and…
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‘Books keep our minds free’: US prisons ban reading materials at alarming pace
Reading bans are rising at an alarming rate in prisons across the country, with new PEN America data revealing that those incarcerated are being robbed of the occasional magazine and even recipe books on how to make ramen. For almost 22 years, Zeke Caligiuri subscribed to the New Yorker magazine from prison in Minnesota. He…
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Lewis Cole is back: NYT bestselling author Brendan DuBois’ popular mystery series returns
EXETER — Brendan DuBois said he always knew he wanted to be a writer. He can’t explain why, he said, he just knew. “From 12 through college, I wrote very bad short stories on an old manual typewriter – I was a big science fiction fan back then – and mailed them,” he recalled. “I…
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Hello November, and hello to these 24 new books out today.
November 7, 2023, 5:00am November has finally arrived, and, although the weather for many of us has cooled a bit, the pace of new books for you to check out hasn’t cooled at all. Below, you’ll find a delightful array of books by writers new and famed to curl up with on these chillier days.…
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Why Naoise Dolan Learned Italian for Her Book Tour
At the beginning of 2023, I went to Santa Maddalena, a writers’ retreat run by the Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte. It was dark when I arrived at the train station and was driven up a bumpy Tuscan hill. I entered the threshold of the big stone house, and someone in the blur of new…
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Literature’s Porous Borders: Where Fiction Ends and Reality Begins
She sat for a long time staring at the small lake that had been next to the brewery where once her family had produced some of the finest beer in Europe. A half hour earlier one of the last survivors of the Nazi incursion into this little nowhere town in middle Europe had led us…
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Lee Goldberg on Westerns, Crime Novels, and Writing A Genre Mash-Up
I’ve always loved crime novels and westerns. I’ve written dozens of crime novels, but not any westerns. Or so I thought. A few years ago, at a book signing event for one of my “Eve Ronin” series of police procedurals, a reader told me I was her favorite western author, which I thought was a…
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Literature lovers converge on Miami Book Fair
November in Miami means only one thing for a lot of people – besides Thanksgiving, of course. It’s the month when book lovers unite with authors from all over the world to converge on Miami Dade ‘s downtown campus for the annual Miami Book Fair, now in its 40th year. Everyone loves walking the three-day…
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Book Club
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