Cover reveal: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the US cover for Wole Soyinka’s new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, which will be published on September 28 by Pantheon Books. This will be Soyinka’s first novel to be published in 48 years, and also the first since he won the Nobel […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-04-23 13:30:34 UTC ]

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Cover reveal: See the cover for Daniel Mason’s North Woods.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries,” which will be published by Random House in September.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-11 14:00:21 UTC ]
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See the cover for Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, Let Us Descend, “a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War,” which will be published by Scribner this October. “In each book since my second... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 14:00:15 UTC ]
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Exclusive: See the cover for Bryan Washington’s new novel, Family Meal.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Bryan Washington’s latest novel, Family Meal, coming this fall from Riverhead Books. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-21 14:00:48 UTC ]
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Exclusive! See the cover for Naomi Alderman’s The Future.

Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Naomi Alderman’s new novel The Future, which will be published by Simon and Schuster this November. Here’s more about the book from the publisher: A compulsive technological thriller, The Future is a tour de force of intelligence and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 14:00:10 UTC ]
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Xiaolu Guo on Translating the Self

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One day, in the midst of working on my first novel in English, I was overwhelmed by a wave of frustration with my adopted language. With some fury, I knocked this out on the page and decided not to translate... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-10 12:51:04 UTC ]
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Haruki Murakami’s first novel in six years will be published this spring.

It’s true: a new Haruki Murakami novel—his first since 2017’s Killing Commendatore—will be published on April 13th . . . but only in Japan. Sorry to tease you, English-speaking readers! Still, not to fret: I’m sure this means that translations are forthcoming. In the meantime, here’s everything... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-02 15:32:49 UTC ]
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14 Books Coming in March

A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Athena Dixon’s The Loneliness Files.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Athena Dixon’s memoir in essays The Loneliness Files, forthcoming from Tin House this fall. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: In Spring 2020, the world as we knew it ground to a halt at the start of the COVID pandemic—streets emptied,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ed Park’s long awaited second novel Same Bed Different Dreams, which will be published by Random House this fall. Here’s a bit about the novel from the publisher: March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-24 15:00:34 UTC ]
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Cover reveal: See the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Promise.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s novel Promise, which Danielle Evans calls “a stunning exploration of the weight and triumph of legacy” and which will be published by Random House in July. Here’s some more about the book from the publisher: The Kindred... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Tara Dorabji Wins S&S's Books Like Us First Novel Prize

As the winner of the second annual Books Like Us First Novel Prize, Dorabji will receive a $50,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-02-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Exclusive cover reveal: See the cover for Lydia Kiesling’s Mobility.

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and Center for Fiction and VCU Cabell First Novel prize finalist Lydia Kiesling’s second novel, Mobility, which this August will be the first book to be published on the new imprint from Crooked Media,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-13 16:01:46 UTC ]
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Book Review: ‘Essex Dogs,’ by Dan Jones

“Essex Dogs,” the first novel in a projected trilogy by the historian Dan Jones, imagines a hard-bitten band of mercenaries hired to invade France on behalf of their English king. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Eleanor Shearer on Writing a Post-Slavery West Indian Novel Celebrating Motherhood and Resilience

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew talks to River Sing Me Home author Eleanor Shearer about her hotly... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-01 09:53:21 UTC ]
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New Jesmyn Ward Novel LET US DESCEND Coming in October

Jesmyn Ward's next novel, LET US DESCEND, will be published on October 3, 2023. It's her first novel since SING, UNBURIED, SING. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Attention: a new Jesmyn Ward novel is coming this fall.

Lovers of gorgeous prose and ghost-soaked literary fiction rejoice: two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s next novel officially has a release date. Let Us Descend, Ward’s first novel in five years (since 2017’s Sing, Unburied Sing) will be published by Scribner on October 3. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-27 15:09:45 UTC ]
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Cover Reveal: 'Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.' by Judy Blume

Since the 1970 publication of 'Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,' Judy Blume refused all offers for a film adaptation, until Kelly Fremon Craig wrote Blume an email that changed her mind. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-01-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Cover reveal: Safiya Sinclair’s summer memoir How to Say Babylon

Lit Hub is pleased to share the cover for Safiya Sinclair’s forthcoming memoir, How to Say Babylon, which Simon and Schuster will publish this summer. Sinclair is the author of the poetry collection Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Exclusive cover reveal: Here’s the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth forthcoming from Counterpoint in August 2023. From the  bestselling author of California, comes this “enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Here’s the cover for Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise

Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise, the first book on Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, forthcoming in June 2023. This debut novel examines the grief of a young woman desperate to detach from the reality of her mother’s death and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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