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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When I was in university, there was a class on the course list that I couldn’t wait to take: an introduction to lesbian literature. Unfortunately, that class was never offered in the years I was there. I did

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Here are the stories that made news in the world of books and reading this week. The Fiction Longlist for the 2024 National Book Awards The final and most closely-watched longlist for The National Book Awards was announced this morning: the ten nominees in fiction. James is the headliner, though Martyr!, All Fours, and the newly-released Creation Lake have all been getting

September 13, 2024, 10:00am Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 473 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Fiction are Jamie Ford, Lauren Groff (Chair), Zeyn Joukhadar, Chawa Magaña, and Reginald McKnight. The

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Earlier this week we covered the 2024 National Book Awards Longlists for Young People’s Literature and Translated Literature. Now the longlists for Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction have also been released, rounding out all the contenders for this year’s

September 13, 2024, 12:16pm The OUP USA Guild, part of the News Media Guild and representing around 150 workers, is demanding that Oxford University Press reverse the recent firing of US-based workers, claiming the layoffs are in violation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that management and the union signed just three weeks ago. 13 members

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

September 12, 2024, 3:00pm Today, the shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The BBC National Short Story Award, now in its nineteenth year, grants £15,000 to the winning author; each other shortlisted author will receive £600. “From a roster of serious

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. How Historical Fiction Redefined the Literary Canon The central data point in this piece on the rise of

September 12, 2024, 2:05pm A meme’s going around. I saw it first on FKA Twitter: 💀 pic.twitter.com/B5PrCZMml9 — THE lusty argonian maid (@lindawg) September 1, 2024 Though there’s no data to support this “discovery,” the internet was quick to take it on its face. I think because we hear the ring of truth. I know

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September 11, 2024, 12:26pm Photo by Howard Smith-Imagn Images, from SI.com James Earl Jones died on Monday at the age of 93, after a career filled with iconic performances, including in Star Wars, The Lion King, Roots, The Great White Hope, and a movie I’m always recommending, Matewan, about the famous 1920 coal miners strike.

September 11, 2024, 1:25pm Questlove, best known as one of the more famous drummers to ever live and co-founder of The Roots, released a memoir this month called Hip-Hop is History. Co-written with his regular collaborator, Ben Greenman, this personal narrative builds on a growing canon of hip-hop lit. Fans will be pleased to know

Tuesday, we covered the announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Since then, this year’s National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature has also been released. The ten titles on the longlist were translated from six different languages—Danish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish. They explore everything from “disorienting

September 10, 2024, 3:00pm Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 141 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Translated Literature are Aron Aji, Jennifer Croft, Jhumpa Lahiri (Chair), Gary Lovely, and Julia

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. ‘Good Omens’: Production Paused On Amazon Drama From Neil Gaiman Good Omens, both the show and the book,

September 10, 2024, 1:44pm Last week, amid ongoing controversy over its primary sponsor’s links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, the embattled Giller Foundation quietly dropped ‘Scotiabank’ from the title of its flagship literary award. From here on out, the Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada’s more prestigious and lucrative literary award) will be known simply as

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