Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature will partner together to create a website for bibliophiles called Literary Hub. The launch date has been scheduled for April 8th.
More than 65 partners ranging from publishing houses to literary journals to bookshops have signed on to provide content for this venture. Some of the large publishers who will be participating include Knopf/Vintage (an imprint of Penguin Random House), Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins), and Little, Brown & Company (an imprint of the Hachette Book Group USA).
Here’s more from the press release: “Literary Hub will showcase publishing and literary news, as well as partner content including author interviews, features, excerpts, and essays. The site will also offer diverse original content curated by Editor in Chief Jonny Diamond, Executive Editor John Freeman, Contributing Editors including Roxane Gay, Rebecca Wolff, and Alexander Chee, and nearly a dozen correspondents from across the country.”