Literature

The horror renaissance has done new book releases for the last few years good. The titles that have made it to many Goodreads members’ lists have been by mega bestsellers like Stephen King, sure, but they’ve also been by more authors of color, and have explored things like social issues and family trauma through the

October 9, 2024, 1:14pm Image from Desert Island’s fundraiser. Here’s some good news to brighten your Wednesday: after being threatened with eviction, beloved indie comic shop Desert Island raised nearly $90,000 in three days to keep the shop in business. The outpouring of support from Desert Island’s community of shoppers, fans, and artists is a

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October 8, 2024, 11:28am The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced this Thursday, October 10. Who will win? As ever, no one knows. But everyone likes to guess…and bet. And because money talks, the betting odds can tell you a lot. Or a little. Or, something, anyway! To figure out where to put

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature Betting odds for The Nobel is such a bizarre, impossible, and ill-advised endeavor, and I hope they do it forever. This year’s

October 8, 2024, 11:36am Last week, the world’s most perfect television show celebrated its 25th anniversary. Under-loved on its initial release, Freaks and Geeks now enjoys one of the smugger lost cause fan clubs. We are legion, us torch-holders for Lindsay and Sam. As any one of those smug fans will tell you, Freaks and

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 20,000 readers of literary fiction…? Rebecca Schinksy and I talked about this whisper of a rumor of a stat a few weeks ago on the Book Riot podcast, and Leigh Stein apparently had the same

With the spirit of fall and the countdown to Halloween in mind, I decided to roundup some books that, while all different from each other, can fit an October reading vibe. Let’s call them different fall reading flavors! It’s been horrible to watch the devastation left behind in Hurricane Helene’s wake in the Southeast. I

The press and especially the news channels are constantly warning us that antisemitism is everywhere on the rise. They don’t point to specific episodes, content instead to denounce an ancient prejudice that in the context of a Middle East crisis is staging a resurgence. No, they describe a gigantic wave of antisemitism that has been

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I was taking an online graphic narrative class and one of the other students, looking at the first page of a piece about falling from a tree and breaking my back when I was ten, said, “Don’t draw an apple, then write Apple.” Article continues after advertisement I’m a writer. I’ve taught creative writing for

This is a mix of September and October releases, and I’m going to be honest with you, I’m not sure why the Indie Next List is organized this way. Maybe the publication dates shifted since they were nominated, or maybe indie booksellers are just mysterious that way. More good news! California joins Illinois and Maryland in

As a creative medium with similar aesthetics and a possibility for interaction, videogames can learn from the fine arts, which have been challenged and tested in all kinds of ways. Despite their different methods of production, both media are made by creatively ambitious people who probe, promote and occasionally fall short in somewhat similar ways.

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TODAY: In 1902, thousands attend the funeral of French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetiere de Montmartre in Paris.  “It’s no surprise that contemporary Russian poems are rife with subtle allusions to other literature.” Forrest Gander on how two innovative Moscow poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko, mined the past to reveal the present. |

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s October, the one month of the year when I join the crowd of horror fans. Something about the weather cooling off, the leaves falling, and the approach of Halloween has me reaching for horror, thrillers, dark fantasy,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1812, Percy Shelley meets journalist and philosopher William Godwin. Two years later, he marries Godwin’s daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.  On this week’s Lit Hub Podcast a roundtable of booksellers discuss the (seemingly) sudden preponderance of romance bookstores. | Lit Hub Radio “As Haitians fled for