Jane Austen Did It Better

Jane Austen Did It Better

The most vulnerable scene in Materialists, Director Celine Song’s sophomore feature, isn’t a love scene. It’s not when John, a down-on-his-luck artist played by Chris Evans, repeatedly declares his love for Lucy, his ex and matchmaker for New York’s elite played by Dakota Johnson. Nor is it during one of the many dates Harry, Pedro […] The post Jane Austen Did It Better appeared first on Electric Literature .

A Poetry Collection That Imagines a World Beyond Empire

A Poetry Collection That Imagines a World Beyond Empire

When I met Marissa Davis in 2017, she was a baby poet. She will admit this herself. She’d just graduated from Vanderbilt University and was spending her June as a summer fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. I got my chance to hear her read for the first time in one of those […] The post A Poetry Collection That Imagines a World Beyond Empire appeared first on Electric Literature .

The 14 Best Book Covers of August

The 14 Best Book Covers of August

Another month of books, another month of book covers. August’s covers were all about paintings, paintings, paintings. And attendant text treatments! Plus some other fun stuff. Here are my favorites from the end of summer: The first of several solid art choices this month, enhanced by the unusual split text—I particularly like the way the […]

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

August’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Eimear McBride’s The City Changes Its Face, Jason Mott’s People Like Us, and Elaine Castillo’s Moderation all feature among August’s best reviewed fiction titles. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber) 8 Rave • 3 Positive • […]

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

August’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

Peter Ames Carlin’s Tonight in Jungleland, Nicholas Boggs’ Baldwin, and Scott Anderson’s King of Kings all feature among August’s best reviewed nonfiction titles. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson (Doubleday) […]

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

The Most Anticipated Audiobooks of September

Each month, our friends at AudioFile Magazine share a curated list of the best audiobooks for your literary listening pleasure. * SEPTEMBER FICTION The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani | Read by Mira Sorvino, Adriana Trigiani AudioFile Earphones Award [Penguin Audio | 12.25 hrs.] Narrator Mira Sorvino enchants as she portrays Jess Capodimonte Baratta, a […]

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Self-discovery is one of the essential rites of passage toward maturity and later mastery for writers. Part of this artistic self-knowledge can be achieved by developing self-awareness through self-appraisal of one’s origins, impulses and sources necessary to answer the most basic artistic questions: What kind […]