Kickstarter launched for new online literary magazine Fictionable
The global COVID pandemic may have devastated many areas of life, but it has not quashed our love for reading. Figures from the Publishers Association showed that fiction sales for… Read more »
It’s time to play: Fragment of Great Literature or Nine Inch Nails Lyric?
Well, it’s been a hell of a week. People are flagrantly ignoring the due dates of their library books, broccoli is turning up in simply outrageous places, respected authors are scoring… Read more »
Seth Meyers to Ladee Hubbard: “You are Professor X!”
Last night, the amazing Ladee Hubbard, author of The Talented Ribkins, was on Late Night with Seth Meyers! Here, read that again: Last night, the amazing Ladee Hubbard, author of The Talented Ribkins, was on Late Night with Seth Meyers!… Read more »
“These statues are not history” — On Donald Trump, public art, and white supremacy
Another day, another absolutely baffling news cycle. So, ok. In the United States right now, there are more than a thousand public sculptures of Confederate leaders. Or, wait — let’s say it… Read more »
Behind the Book: Ladee Hubbard’s The Talented Ribkins
I began writing the first draft of my novel The Talented Ribkins, published today, at my grandparents’ house, three months after the birth of my third child. It was a fitting… Read more »
Out today: The Talented Ribkins
Toni Morrison wants you to read The Talented Ribkins. She writes, “For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” A lot of… Read more »
The Talented Tenth
Today, as months of excitement culminate in the publication of Ladee Hubbard’s debut novel The Talented Ribkins, we’re also eagerly re-reading The Talented Tenth, the essay by W.E.B. Du Bois that helped inspire… Read more »
Confederate statues, submerged tensions, and the end of racism: A southern writer looks at the monuments of New Orleans and Brazil
This piece originally ran last month. We’re running it again to celebrate the publication today of Ladee Hubbard’s The Talented Ribkins. Recently my hometown of New Orleans removed four monuments… Read more »
In Texas, a badge is passed to a new bookseller
Move over, Barnes and Noble — the Texas Book Festival has a new bookseller sweetheart, just in time for its twenty-second year. Readers of Texas, say hi to BookPeople. (Maybe you’ve already met?)… Read more »
Confederate statues, submerged tensions, and the end of racism: A southern writer looks at the monuments of New Orleans and Brazil
Recently my hometown of New Orleans removed four monuments to Confederate generals from public display, an act that heartened many, provoked anger in some, and received a good deal of… Read more »