The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1900, Robert Frost’s son Elliott dies at age three of typhoid fever. Frost, who blamed himself for not calling a physician sooner, wrote about the loss in his poem “Home Burial.“ “Architecture, literally and metaphorically, maps the topography of many of my poems.” Christian Gullette
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What kind of world is this? That’s the question prompted over and over by Joseph O’Neill’s new novel Godwin, a novel which is ostensibly about soccer, and the soccer industry, but is really about nothing less than the value of a human life. Godwin is a West African teenager whose talent with a football is, in
We cover a lot of news here at Book Riot. These are the stories readers found most interesting this week, accompanied by my commentary. The Most-Anticipated Most Anticipated Summer Reading List The Millions‘s seasonal preview lists have been a staple of the bookish internet since well before BuzzFeed popularized the idea of the listicle, and
It might be a bad year in the world, generally speaking, but it has been a great year for books—especially genre books! I love some good literary fiction as much as anybody but I’m a sucker for a good book of magic, dragons, spaceships, monsters, slashers, ghosts, etc… and so I’ve been combing the calendar
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in
He was, by the time I knew him, in the years he was my grandfather, a gentle man. Perhaps I should say gentled. Article continues below His hands, like the hands of all the taciturn, squint-eyed ranchers I knew in my growing up days out on the high plains of eastern Montana, were sun-darkened to
Every week for the Tuesday edition of Our Queerest Shelves, I put together a list of the most exciting new LGBTQ books out that week. Since I first started keeping track of upcoming LGBTQ new releases, this list has grown and grown. I follow a ton of different queer book blogs as well as Bookstagram,
TODAY: In 1865, first issue of The Nation magazine, founded as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, is published. “It’s harder for me to talk about them.” J.C. Gabel talks to Percival Everett about his paintings. | Lit Hub Art “Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have
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New York now, lead me back to New York then. There isn’t one New York, it’s too mediated and historicized and romanticized— a city haunted by images and stories of itself. In New York stories, one theme is retold like a chorus: people don’t work here, they hustle. Hustling plays into the urban dream for
If you’re reading your email on the Friday of a holiday weekend here in the U.S., we know we’ve got to make it worth it for you. Today’s line-up is aces. Last year, following Pride, I pulled together a piece that covered all of the targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attacks on schools, libraries, and bookstores over the
Samuel Roth was the sort of bookseller whose wares came wrapped in brown paper. Titles like Gershon Legman’s The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, Maxwell Bodenheim’s My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village, and most notoriously his anthologized periodical of high-brow smut, American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free. Roth—poet, publisher, pornographer—was a
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Translator’s note: Since October 17, 2023, Heba Al-Agha has been sharing her diary through her Telegram channel “Talk of Life and War.” The entries include poetry, freeform narration, descriptions, and photos, as she is forced to move with her family from their home in Gaza City to Khan Younis, then to Rafah, and as of
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1860, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist, sociologist, novelist, and author of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is born. “Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power.” Rebecca Solnit on the power of speech to shape the future. | Lit Hub
Whether you’re hiding from a heat wave or escaping the news cycle, there’s something to keep you entertained in this round-up of literary adaptations coming to the screen in July. And if you’re looking for books? Well, kid, you’re in the right place. Happy Disability Pride Month! July is one of my favorite times of