Literature

August 20, 2024, 10:56am I’m happy to report that the internet has been redeemed for another day. I recently came across this very impressive and carefully curated map of bookstores on www.iheartbookstores.com, a simple and very useful site: a searchable, scrollable, and sortable map and database of 6,001 non-chain bookstores. Pairs well with our literary

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August 19, 2024, 12:14pm It’s been a rough year for the literary festival. Sparked by a campaign from Fossil Free Books (FFB), nine festivals that previously relied on support from the Baillie Gifford Foundation dropped or lost that company’s sponsorship after the firm failed to divest from fossil fuel companies and interests allied with Israel’s

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Though I’ve heard ballet dancers say there are moments onstage when they feel more like actors than athletes, I’ve always assumed the choices available to dancers as actors were few, and that embodying a character was secondary to embodying the most perfect lines of one’s own body. Under ballet’s demands of technical precision, I thought

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1998, journalist and author Dorothy West dies.  Steve Paul remembers Evan S. Connell, a quiet giant of American literature. | Lit Hub Biography “Our kindergarten teachers were right: it’s show and tell.” Jessica Anthony on the art of fictional time. | Lit Hub Craft Emma

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

August 16, 2024, 12:19pm Photo by Steven Walker One of the few places where you don’t want to see a huge stack of books is in a dumpster, but this is exactly what Floridians found yesterday on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota. Reporter Steven Walker and others spotted piles and piles

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1945, the novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is published. Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “We were searching for a writing method that was less like writing and more like living.” Sofia Samatar

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As of July, Our Queerest Shelves is three years old! Writing this newsletter is truly the highlight of my professional life. Being paid to write about queer books is a dream come true. One of my favorite parts

August 16, 2024, 1:57pm Beloved comedy publication The Onion has started back up with a paper-and-ink print edition for the first time in over ten years. As announced on the comedy institution’s website and in a story in The New York Times, The Onion has decided to return to their roots as a newsprint, fish-wrappable,

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BookTok is a phenomena that has moved an unfathomable amount of books. Despite its reputation as being solely the realm of Sarah J. Maas and Colleen Hoover, you can find book videos in every conceivable genre and format

August 16, 2024, 1:01pm The bookstore bar aspires to combine two beloved things: wine and stacks. Though people have been pairing vittles and pages as long as either have existed, the retail trend has taken off in recent years. As Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner reported in Eater this week, the book bar creates “a third place”

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on