TODAY: In 1914, Dubliners is published in a run of 1250 copies. Though it debuted to generally positive reviews, in its first year, the book sold only 746 copies.   Can’t figure out what book to bring to the beach? The ultimate summer reading list is here. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Who’s the worst dad in literature? Garth Risk Hallberg on the most...

This Sunday, Broadway will recognize some of the year’s plays and musicals with a shiny celebration and a great many inside jokes. Maybe you’ve seen some of the nominated plays. Or maybe you will, later, when they reach PBS or your town. Either way, as a Lit Hub reader, you may be interested to know that some of this year’s biggest tickets are literary...

One night in the rainy summer of 1816, at Lord Byron’s summer estate, Villa Diodati, in Cologny, near Geneva, Switzerland, Byron, and his friends Percy and Mary Shelley passed the time by telling ghost stories. The stories they created would lay the groundwork for future, publishable works. Perhaps most notable among these contributions was Mary Shelley’s,...

Finally, you’ve got an advanced copy of a hotly anticipated forthcoming book. Reading it will be great—sure, whatever—but showing it off is going to be even better. Go beyond the coy Instagram posting, and elevate your galley brag game.   “Accidentally” leave it out on tables, like a kid trying to hint at a gift they want. Let it peek out of the...

Hear ye, hear ye! The Seattle-based novelist E.J. Koh has won the 24th annual NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award for her book The Liberators.  A time and space-hopping epic following two Korean families, The Liberators enlists “memory, trauma, and empathy” to examine the irrevocable decisions we make in love and war. Though this is her debut novel, Koh...

The good people behind the Refaat Mobile Library—a traveling memorial library created in honor of Refaat Alareer, the beloved Palestinian poet and educator who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in December—are holding an emergency fundraiser for Gaza, and they could really use your support. The volunteer-run mobile library has been traveling around...