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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1957, On the Road is published. “I’ve never felt the presence of my own death so close to me,” writes Nahil Mohana while chronicling the toll of living with endless displacement and fear in Gaza. | Lit Hub Memoir Shannon Bowring asks, “How do you

Early in the summer of 2022, I had spoken to several friends of mine who worked at our public library. There was rumor afoot that a library board member had been making comments about LGBTQIA+ books and was questioning the purchase of certain books. These librarians all had an impending sense of doom that there

September 4, 2024, 3:18pm Election season is in full swing, and if your phone is anything like mine, you’re constantly getting robotic, automated text messages from candidates. No matter how many times you reply “stop” or throw your phone across the room, they just keep coming. Personally, the situation’s gotten a lot worse after I

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1896, Antonin Artaud is born.  Jane Ciabattari talks to Rachel Kushner about Creation Lake: “I often think of the world as merely the final outer dimension of novels, the substance that holds them in place.” | Lit Hub In Conversation Bryan VanDyke on grief, chatbots

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely

September 3, 2024, 2:23pm NaNoWriMo, the tongue-twister acronym for National Novel Writing Month, was in the hot seat on social media this weekend for their support of AI writing. The organization facilitates a community of people who sprint to finish a manuscript over the course of November, and said condemnation of AI writing tools is

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. What We Talk About When We Talk About Spicy Books Ask a hundred people what it means for

September 3, 2024, 2:03pm There’s mud, there’s blood, there’s a woman being impolite in public: the first trailer for Nightbitch is live. And hungry. Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), who directs the Annapurna Pictures adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s hit 2021 novel Nightbitch—in which, as you may remember, a a frustrated stay-at-home mother turns into

The calendar is a construct, but the arrival of September really does feel significant. School is back in session, publishing is entering Big Books Season, and folks are fired up and ready to go. Still catching up on the end of summer? Don’t miss this look at the 10 most popular books on Book Riot

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Chang’e on the Moon by Katrina Moore, illustrated by Cornelia Li, translated by Jaime Chu I collect picture books that retell myths and folklore, and I am thrilled by this gorgeously illustrated new retelling of the Chinese myth “Chang’e on the Moon.” Chang’e and her husband, Hou Yi, live in peace and love one another

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Did you know that according to a University of Sussex study, reading before bed is the most relaxing activity you can do? It reduces stress by 68%, and the best part is, you only need to read for

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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. George RR Martin to Reveal What’s Gone Wrong with HOUSE OF THE DRAGON I think it is time

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for a book, which was the start of most of her problems. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Lake Forest College and is working towards a master’s

I wholeheartedly believe that author profiles are an important and worthy part of book coverage. This may sound like a shruggy opinion at best, but depending on who you ask, it’s a controversial take. Article continues after advertisement Some critics would say that the author profile is a shoddy replacement for actual book criticism and