Soledad Acosta de Samper spoke English, traveled the world, wrote every day, and saved the newspaper clippings in which her novels appeared to transform them into albums. She married out of love, had four daughters – one of them, a nun and a poet, published an edition of Novena de Aguinaldos It is sung during
Susan Wiggs recommends Lisa Wingate, Ellen Marie Wiseman, Megan Church and others The “wayward girl” in fiction – and unfortunately, in reality – is defined less by her own actions and more by a society committed to getting her “right.” “Promiscuousness” is usually a symptom of being too poor, too outspoken, or simply getting in
nice art, nice cover Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month was all about art choices – and some clever tricks, too. Below are my favorite book covers of June; As always, feel free to add to my list in the comments. Maggie O’Farrell, land; Cover design by Holly Ovenden (Knopf,
The best of literary internet Today: 1915 Jean Stafford is born. Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most looking forward to in the second half of 2026 Lit Hub Reading Lists We’re begging you to let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt bell jar. | lit hub film Why Soledad Acosta de Samper
“What a beautiful girl!” Antonio shouted as he saw a group on horseback passing through the square in the village of N***a.(1)Just then arrived to participate in the local festival scheduled for the next day. Article continues after ad Antonio Gonzalez has been my fellow student and my favorite friend since my youth. On saying
This first appeared in Lit Hub literary history Newsletter-Sign up here. This week, the United States turns 250 years old. It’s a milestone that brings mixed emotions given the recent direction of the country, but since this is a column about literary history, it’s a good reason to think about the history of American literature.
Natalie took my class in The Ethics of Public Biography at the CUNY Grad Center while she was getting her MFA at Brooklyn College. This was a deep dive into the ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org) So I knew he had some background. But when I read Waiting on a Friend, I immediately understood
Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for Ursula K. for fiction. Le Guin Awardwhich awards $25,000 annually to the author of the book that best represents the literary, moral, and aesthetic ideals of the great writer: “realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to
On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, Albert Saijo, climbed into the back of an eastbound Willys Jeep station wagon. The wagon belonged to the red-haired poet Lew Welch, also thirty-three years old; In the passenger seat sat thirty-seven-year-old writer Jack Kerouac, looking fresh steve allen showAnd looking
When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been a train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade before schools were integrated and “public” buildings became accessible to all. As black children, my siblings and I