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I was taking an online graphic narrative class and one of the other students, looking at the first page of a piece about falling from a tree and breaking my back when I was ten, said, “Don’t draw an apple, then write Apple.” Article continues after advertisement I’m a writer. I’ve taught creative writing for

This is a mix of September and October releases, and I’m going to be honest with you, I’m not sure why the Indie Next List is organized this way. Maybe the publication dates shifted since they were nominated, or maybe indie booksellers are just mysterious that way. More good news! California joins Illinois and Maryland in

As a creative medium with similar aesthetics and a possibility for interaction, videogames can learn from the fine arts, which have been challenged and tested in all kinds of ways. Despite their different methods of production, both media are made by creatively ambitious people who probe, promote and occasionally fall short in somewhat similar ways.

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TODAY: In 1902, thousands attend the funeral of French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetiere de Montmartre in Paris.  “It’s no surprise that contemporary Russian poems are rife with subtle allusions to other literature.” Forrest Gander on how two innovative Moscow poets, Nina Iskrenko and Alexander Yeremenko, mined the past to reveal the present. |

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s October, the one month of the year when I join the crowd of horror fans. Something about the weather cooling off, the leaves falling, and the approach of Halloween has me reaching for horror, thrillers, dark fantasy,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1812, Percy Shelley meets journalist and philosopher William Godwin. Two years later, he marries Godwin’s daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.  On this week’s Lit Hub Podcast a roundtable of booksellers discuss the (seemingly) sudden preponderance of romance bookstores. | Lit Hub Radio “As Haitians fled for

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October 4, 2024, 10:22am And it is called, aptly, oh-so-aptly, Whimsigoth. The house at the center of 1998’s Practical Magic may be among the Most Pinterested Fictional Property. A robust mood board movement puts The Owens’ Manse in a whole aesthetic constellation with candelabras, turrets, and American Colonial antiques. It’s an earned reputation, in this

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Bit of a light news day on this early Fall Friday, so we are going to to do more links, but less words about them. One sentence per link. Twain would be proud. Lionsgate TV

Whether it’s via lies told about immigrants, the ongoing violence of borders, the justification of exploding pagers, the expansion of the Overton Window to include once nearly unimaginable horrors, racist myths of home invasion, or the cheerleading of colonization, our political conversations in western news media are saturated with narratives of invasion. Article continues after

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Reese Witherspoon Announces First Novel, Co-Written With Harlen Coben I have long wondered why Witherspoon didn’t have her own imprint…or house. But after the spate of high profile celebrity thriller collaborations (Viola Davis, both Clintons,

October 3, 2024, 11:40am Sometimes friends get you in trouble. It’s just going to happen. Even your closest, oldest friends will give you bad advice or indulge a destructive impulse—“Stay out for one more!” “Text him!” “Take extravagant airline upgrades from Turkey!” But if you’re New York Mayor Eric Adams or part of his crew,

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“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,” I said as middle school me took a seat in my church’s drab, windowless confessional. Opposite our parish priest, I uncrumpled a piece of paper that contained two lists: One for all of the sins I had committed; the other for all of the ways I wished to

Banned Books Week and Prison Banned Books Week have passed, but Bookshop.org and The Authors Guild are keeping the spotlight on banned books through their Banned Books Sale. With it, you can get 15% off challenged books, or new books by challenged authors with the code BannedBooks24. “As we face a critical point for literature

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1902, Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published.   “I aligned with stories that were messy and vulnerable. Writers who were messy and vulnerable.” Betsy Lerner remembers working with writers who had demons to wrestle with. | Lit Hub Memoir Caroline Carlson recommends