Literary Hub is a daily literary website that launched in 2015 by
Grove Atlantic president and publisher
Morgan Entrekin
Morgan Entrekin is the president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic Inc. Books in New York City. He is one of six owners of the publishing company.
He is from Nashville, Tennessee.
Timeline
Entrekin is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy, St ...
,
American Society of Magazine Editors
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Hall of Fame editor
Terry McDonell, and
Electric Literature founder Andy Hunter.
Content
Focused on literary fiction and nonfiction, ''Literary Hub'' publishes personal and critical essays, interviews, and book excerpts from over 100 partners,
including independent presses (
New Directions Publishing
New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.
History
New Directions was born in 19 ...
,
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mellon ...
), large publishers (
Simon & Schuster
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,
Alfred A. Knopf), bookstores (
Book People
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History
The Book People started business in 1988, initially in the Guildford, Surrey area. It expanded rap ...
,
Politics and Prose
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), non-profits (
PEN America
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), and literary magazines (''
The Paris Review
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'',
n+1). The mission of ''Literary Hub'' is to be the "site readers can rely on for smart, engaged, entertaining writing about all things books."
The website has been featured in ''
The Washington Post
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'', ''
The Guardian
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'', and ''
Poets & Writers Poets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organizations in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The organization publishes a bi-monthly magazine called ''Poets & Writers Magazine'', ...
''.
In 2019, Literary Hub launched their new blog, ''The Hub'', alongside LitHub Radio, a "network of bookish podcasts featuring some established favorites of the genre along with a new show or two". They also maintain a website for crime, mystery and thriller literature called ''CrimeReads''.
On October 22, 2019, ''Literary Hub'' announced a partnership with The Podglomerate, launching ''
Storybound'', a new podcast created and hosted by
Jude Brewer, exploring "everything from family life to friendship, relationships to histories, and how everything in life can be impacted by the power of a good story."
Book Marks
Book Marks is an American
review-aggregation website for books. It was launched by ''Literary Hub'' in June 2016.
The service aggregates reviews from approximately 70 sources, including newspapers, magazines, and websites, and averages them into a score:
"rave", "positive", "mixed", or "pan".
CrimeReads
''CrimeReads'' is a daily website dedicated to crime, mystery, and thrillers.
It launched in 2018 as a channel of ''Literary Hub'', with Dwyer Murphy and Molly Odintz as editors.
''CrimeReads'' publishes essays, lists, and other pieces about literature, film, television, radio/podcasts, and theater, as well as personal essays and original true crime research. The site also features excerpts from recent and forthcoming fiction and nonfiction books in its relevant genres.
The website is and has been advised by crime writers and journalists, including
Megan Abbott
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,
Lee Child
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,
Lyndsay Faye
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,
Meg Gardiner, Alison Gaylin, Rachel Howzell Hall,
Carl Hiaasen
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, Joe Ide,
Craig Johnson, Ausma Zehanat Khan,
Laura Lippman,
Attica Locke,
Val McDermid
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Biography
M ...
,
Kyle Mills
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,
Walter Mosley
Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private i ...
, Lori Rader-Day,
Ruth Ware,
Sarah Weinman, and
Daniel Woodrell
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.
Olivia Rutigliano joined the site as a staff writer in 2020 and became the site's third editor in 2021.
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