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I have finally reemerged from the depths of Most Anticipated Books of 2025 lists! I’ve been looking through dozens of lists across blogs, Instagram, Goodreads, and more to build a database of hundreds of new queer books out in 2025. It’s obviously not a complete list, but it’s a start! It also has very few
January 17, 2025, 1:05pm High-school is Twin Peaks. All the cool girls are Audrey for Halloween, eerily twisting in pencil skirts. Unless they’re the Log Lady. Every cup of coffee is “damn good.” College is Blue Velvet country. At every party, some bro will parrot Dennis Hopper when the keg runs dry. (“Heineken? F*ck that sh*t.
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1925, Sol Yurick, author of the 1965 novel The Warriors, is born. Steal this identity: Bradford Morrow explores a brief history of literary forgery. | Lit Hub History Ariel Dorfman reflects on his friend Gabriel García Márquez’s legacy and the Netflix adaptation of One Hundred
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January 17, 2025, 1:16pm With news coming in earlier today that Israel’s security cabinet has, after some delay, ratified the Gaza ceasefire agreement, it looks as if the carnage that has enveloped the strip for over fifteen months will, on Sunday, finally come to an end. For surviving Palestinians in the brutalized enclave, all of
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. Fact-Checking Chicken Soup for the Soul Readers who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1972, Betty Smith dies. “Remember that every bit of worldbuilding that makes it to the page adds to the set, and stage space is limited.” Erika Swyler on the art of worldbuilding. | Lit Hub Craft James H. Sweet chronicles the mystery of the Black
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 Gaiman’s Publishers Are Responding to Sexual Assault Allegations In yesterday’s installment, I wondered why publishing media has
January 16, 2025, 4:21pm The new year means new calendars you’ll stop using in a month, new resolutions you’ll break in a week, and new public domain works you can remix and ruin all year long. And in 2025, a lot of classics are escaping the shackles of copyright — Duke Law’s Center for the
Everand—a company that offers a monthly subscription for access to ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and more—just released their 2025 State of Reading Report. They gathered data on why we read, how and what we read, our beliefs about books, and the evolution of reading by interviewing 1,500 US consumers aged 18-64 who had paid for an
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1933, Susan Sontag is born. Ariel Dorfman reflects on his friend Gabriel García Márquez’s legacy and the Netflix adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude. | Lit Hub Film Luis Schwarcz on what it means to be a publisher: “We are also the first people
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
January 15, 2025, 12:50pm A special collection landed in the Hamptons this week, care of Tom Hanks—the world’s one true pleasure to have in class. As real ones know, Mr. Hanks has long nursed a fetish for typewriters. He spotlit the technology in his debut story collection, Uncommon Type. And recently appeared in a documentary
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. Where is Publishing’s Response to the Neil Gaiman Allegations? On Monday, New York Magazine revealed this week’s cover
TODAY: In 1812, Lord Byron takes his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. “And the problem with being less struck, less susceptible—with taking everything less to heart—is that you cannot defend yourself against being struck by what hurts without also parrying what would leave you awestruck or moonstruck or lovestruck.” Jane Zwart on
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