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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Grab a cup of something tasty and catch up with the news stories Today in Books readers found most interesting this week. Groundbreaking Poet Nikki Giovanni Dies at 81 Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni has died at the age of

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement There comes a time each winter, after the cold settles into the rafters and my streaming services exhaust themselves in a digitized blur, that I find myself drawn to art museums. I want to walk among their gaudy poinsettias and turtlenecked

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today, I have another installment of “The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to…” Previously, I sifted through The New York Times, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, and Barnes & Noble lists for the queer titles included. This time, I’m

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey are published by T. C. Newby in a 3-volume set under the pen names of Ellis and Acton Bell.   The professionals weigh in: here are the best book covers of the year, according to

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1784, Samuel Johnson dies.  The Beatles breaking up: on the protracted end of a band that transformed rock and roll forever. | Lit Hub Music “Something will enrage you and something will haunt you. And something will strike you as beautiful and true.” Derek Mong

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Portbou, a provincial Catalonian fishing village of only a thousand souls framed by steep hills descending towards the temperate Mediterranean, is situated where the eastern most part of Spain kisses France. That is where the German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin ingested a fatal dose of morphine tablets in a dingy room at the Hotel de

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. Hollywood’s Calling for the Movie Rights Since 2005, The Black List has published an annual round-up of the

December 12, 2024, 4:35pm Press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders released their 2024 round-up today and found that Israel’s genocidal assault made Palestine the deadliest place in the world to be a journalist this year, which they called “an unprecedented massacre.” RSF report found an “alarming intensification of attacks on journalists” around the world, but

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Picture the biggest tree you’ve ever seen, laid on its side and sliced lengthways into boards no thicker than expensive steaks. Every difficult year, every drought and every flood, all the minerals and pigments leached up from the particular spot in which it took root, the rippling shadows of a woodworm’s pinhole excavations, the relentless

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. Strand Union Strikes a Deal Members of the Strand’s staff union who went on strike over the weekend

December 11, 2024, 11:36am Joseph Earl Thomas won this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his book God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Congratulations! The novel has made it onto several best-of-2024 lists, and has been praised as “a powerful examination of every day black life–of health and sex, race and punishment, and the

And, while the surveys collected and analyzed in the study were specific to the New York Public Library, researchers believe they can be extended to other libraries—be they in rural, urban, or suburban areas—across the country. Daphna Blatt, the NYPL’s Senior Director of Strategy & Public Impact and one of the people involved in the

As I sit in my kitchen writing this, it is near dusk on Tuesday, November 12. It has been one week since the presidential election. My original deadline for this piece—a personal essay-cum-review of my kids’ and my favorite books from the past year—was the end of October. I listed my books, collected quotes and