Literature

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1917, French feminist writer Christiane Rochefort is born.  Minsoo Kang on J.R.R. Tolkien and how the tools of fantasy and speculative fiction can help immigrant writers. | Lit Hub Craft Brittany Allen asks, what’s the Millennial midlife crisis novel? On aphoristic prose and women on

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July 16, 2024, 1:25pm The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the shortlist for the third annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual $25,000 cash prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. The award is intended to recognize

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1951, The Catcher in the Rye is published by Little Brown and Company.  Did anyone ask us? No. Did we do it anyway? Of course. We compiled 71 of the best books of the century so far (that The New York Times missed). | Lit

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A few weeks before the release of my first book, a memoir about my mother’s murder, I had to take a polygraph exam. The two things were not in fact related, but that was easy to forget once I found myself strapped in a chair in a windowless room on the fourth floor of a

Here’s what’s going on today on Book Riot: 8 Page-Turning Books With Short Chapters To Keep You Hooked Short chapters come in really handy as I can quickly maneuver through them. I end up starting multiple new chapters and feel the reward circuit in my brain smiling triumphantly. If you’re looking for books with short

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1892, German literary critic and writer Walter Benjamin is born. Jordan Kopy on what writers can learn from Nickelodeon’s horror classic, Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Lit Hub Craft “The lie detector was like any true story in America: the facts didn’t matter as

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. 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

Novelist Zoë Eisenberg and journalist-turned-author Rhaina Cohen have something in common: they both published books about extraordinarily intimate friendships. Their debut books published in February of this year with strikingly similar titles—Significant Others (Eisenberg) and The Other Significant Others (Cohen). They talk about their books as “literary fraternal twins.” Article continues below Cohen’s book, a

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 her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until

Like millions of other irreverent young men, I would find my way to 4chan.org, which, like Hegel, was to later give birth to two formidable yet opposing political currents, and which, also like Hegel, was filled with nonsense, though in this case the nonsense was fully intended. Article continues below I had stayed largely on

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The publishing industry definitely did not get the message that the dog days of summer are here. It was a busy week! Here are the most-clicked stories from this week’s Today in Books coverage. NYT Names the 100

It’s the spring of 2021, and the pandemic is beginning to slide away from us in ways that still feel impossible. But there is work to do. There is lost time to make up for. Article continues below Even though I have a debut novel publishing this summer, I have been getting rejection after rejection

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Next week, I’ll be sharing the results of the Our Queerest Shelves Halfway Check-In Survey, but today, I wanted to chat with you about my answers to the questions about my favourite new and backlist queer books I’ve

TODAY: In 1930, Almost 6,000 spiritualists gathered in the Royal Albert Hall for a memorial to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, attended by his relatives. The medium Estelle Roberts relayed a private message to Doyle’s widow which she affirmed to be genuine.  “Perhaps I’ve seen enough of the interior lives of that generation of Canadians.” Jonny

Whew, this was a busy one! The New York Times has unveiled its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century so far. A new Zora Neale Hurston novel is coming next year. Books about disability are popular banning targets. It’s officially (finally!) happening: the Uglies adaptation has a release date. These are