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It’s April on the east coast, and we’re starting to get glimpses of beauty amid the chilled damp. Everyone knows Eliot’s description of April as the cruelest month: “Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” I feel you, brother.

Just a few weeks ago, on March 12, 2026, which would have been Jack Kerouac’s 104th birthday, the *On the Road* scroll sold at auction at *Christie’s* in New York for a whopping $12,135,000.

The six book shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize For Non-Fiction has been announced, an impressive collection that includes memoir, contemporary politics, biography, writing on health and science, and more.

Sure, your parents warned you not to do something only because your friends want you to, but sometimes maybe you should.

If you conducted a survey, I am fairly certain you’d find that the majority of readers prefer paperbacks to hardcover books.

A cargo ship carrying the full print runs of two forthcoming comics from Fantagraphics Books was hit by an Iranian missile in the Straight of Hormuz, according to ICv2 and a post by Fantagraphics co-founder Mike Catron.

Grammarly has quickly rolled back a controversial software feature after intense backlash.

A velvety voice brings good news: the name of a lost Eastern European writer few have heard of, the reappearance of the genius’ brief novel.

It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore.

If you’re headed to Baltimore this week for the 53rd annual AWP (aka literary rumspringa for writers-who-should-know-better), I insist you come have a beer and celebrate some of Minnesota’s (and America’s) best writers reading at **ICE O...

Publishing scams are everywhere right now — and they are getting slicker and harder to detect.

Baltimore was dubbed “The City That Reads” in 1988, when newly elected Mayor Kurt Schmoke declared his intention to boost literacy in his inaugural address.

The following is from *Wake Now in the Fire* by Jarrett Dapier and illustrated by AJ Dungo.

A group of right-wing Congressional Representatives introduced a federal book banning bill in Congress this week that would give book censors wide latitude to remove books from schools and libraries.

A challenge to a monstrously regressive Florida state law that makes it easier for books to be pulled from school libraries is making its way through a federal circuit court in Atlanta.