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August 15, 2024, 3:14pm Earlier this morning, more than 100 journalists from twenty news outlets and seven press freedom groups sent an open letter to United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the U.S. “to immediately cease sending weapons to Israel amid the country’s widespread killing of journalists in Palestine”: Since October 7, 2023,

In celebration of National Read a Romance Novel Month, Bookshop.org is having a sale on select romance books with the code ROMANCE. It’s good until August 31st. Since 2020, Bookshop.org has earned more that $32 million for local bookstores—more than 80% of which has gone directly to bookstores and publishers—so buying from Bookshop.org is directly

August 15, 2024, 8:00am The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, which “honors writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” has today announced its 2024 book award finalists. The winners in each category will receive a $10,000 cash prize, and the runners-up will be awarded $5,000. The 2024 fiction finalists are:

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. Publishing Stays Racist If you thought publishing turned a new leaf after Black Lives Matter protests generated a

A Christmas Carol MARLEY WAS SWEATY, LIKE SO SWEATY, to begin with. The Secret History The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. The Bunny thing was bad, obviously, but the snow melting and the fact that it

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 too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel is a writer from Arkansas, most at home surrounded by forests and animals much like a Disney Princess. She spends most of her time writing stories and playing around in imaginary worlds. You can follow her writing

August 13, 2024, 10:00am My king, Richard Brody, has released his semi-annual favorite films of the year list. Which means it’s as good a time as any for this reporter to do the same. Listing favorite movies inclined me to think in wine pairing terms. And as I believe there’s no better way to herald

I don’t know about you, but I am counting the days to cooler weather, longer sleeves, and Big Book Season. In the meantime, let’s make the most of today’s highlights. One thing I love about reading children’s books is that they encompass all genres. On Sunday, I mentioned fantasy was my favorite genre, and while

August 13, 2024, 10:17am Is Barack Obama the best-read President to ever hold the title of commander-in-chief? Signs point to probably. A week before his party formally convenes in Chicago to elect nominees—and conspicuously, five weeks before the proper end-of-summer—the people’s overachiever has published his annual summer reading list. Via presidential Insta. I want a

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. Tennessee High School Closes Library Due to Comply with Book Banning Law Green Hill High School in Wilson

August 12, 2024, 10:28am It’s a bad time to be a spicy book in a school library in America, or at least in Republican-controlled states. Last week, government officials in Utah and Iowa, having learned no lessons from Tipper Gore’s crusade against explicit language in music and generally being spineless sycophants more interested in scoring

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August 12, 2024, 10:32am The winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards—one of science fiction and fantasy’s most prestigious awards, decided by the popular vote of WorldCon members—were presented this weekend at the 82nd WorldCon in Glasgow, Scotland. A hearty congratulations to all of the winners as well as all of the finalists and nominated works—it’s

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

On November 23, 2018, the Special Investigation Team submitted a charge sheet accusing eighteen men of conspiring together to murder activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh. By then they’d arrested sixteen of those men. The two remaining men were still at large. The charge sheet was a whopping 9,235 pages in length, a record of all the

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

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement I always take my characters grocery shopping when I’m working on a novel. I like to push a cart around a supermarket, deciding what my character will buy. It’s the single best way for me to understand a character well enough