Literature

April 10, 2024, 4:37pm Less than a month out from the 20th incarnation of its flagship World Voices Festival, the protests against PEN America’s response to the war on Gaza are continuing to mount. In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn their books from PEN awards consideration; esteemed translator Esther Allen, who

Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott Anne Lamott is a beloved author, and this is her 20th book! It’s easy to know why it’s popular today: Somehow came out yesterday. Each chapter examines different kinds of love and how it changes our lives: “Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1966, Evelyn Waugh dies after attending an upsettingly modern Easter Sunday Mass.   Are you an American curious about queer Canada’s past? Rose Sutherland recommends a crash course in historical fiction, including Suzette Meyr, Heather O’Neil, Loghan Paylor, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

I am a huge fan of the Quick & Easy Guides put out by Limerence Press. They are unintimidating, clear, concise, and fairly inexpensive, so they aren’t only good, impactful reads, but they may also be easy to buy extra copies to give to others. I definitely did that with the Quick & Easy Guide

April 9, 2024, 2:46pm Her name was Zenith, and she deserves to sail alongside Pequod, Demeter, and the ship of Theseus in the fleet of literature’s floating icons. You probably won’t recognize her name, but you no doubt know this ship made famous by David Foster Wallace in his essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Simon and Schuster and…Zuckerberg?  There is a lot to digest in this deeply reported piece about the shortcuts Meta,

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Fair Play by Tove Jansson, translated from Swedish by Thomas Teal Tove Jansson is best known for her Moomin children’s books, but she also wrote adult novels, like this one. Fair Play, published in 1989, is about Mari and Jonna, a writer and artist who have lived together for decades. This domestic, slice-of-life story is

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1955, Barbara Kingsolver is born.   “Who is telling—and translating—the truth?” Emily Nemens on baseball, translation, and the recent Shohei Ohtani scandal. | Lit Hub Sports Alison C. Rollins on silence, Afrofuturism, and writing poems across time: “For me, form is like sculpting sound.” | Lit

The Jenna Bush Hager Book Club is, unquestionably, a publishing phenomenon. After five years and 64 books, it’s been described as filling “a vacuum [that existed] since the original Oprah’s Book Club ended its run more than a decade ago.” That’s high praise, especially considering the stunning cultural impact that Oprah’s Book Club has had

A woman is a very strange thing. Radically different from anything else. I don’t know when I started thinking that. Maybe when I looked at her lying there next to me that first morning, when she was sleeping and I wasn’t. I started comparing our bodies, our breasts. I knew before that I had no

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In two new novels, intense friendships—and the romantic possibilities they might hold for the characters—are stirred up by the avenues and alleyways of the cities they’re set in: turn-of-the-millennium Berlin in I Make Envy on Your Disco, and WW1-era Paris in The Titanic Survivors Book Club. In Berlin, an art advisor finds himself lost in

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In the mid-1890s, the Pall-Mall Gazette in England ran illustrations by Fred T. Jane in a series called “Guesses at Futurity,” which were visual speculations on life in the year 2000. Number 7 was “Interplanetary Communication. Gold Mining on the Moon.” A partially buried and shaded glass tunnel ran from the foreground past two lampposts and

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day More Story Lit Hub Daily: April 5, 2024 Timothy Schaffert and Eric Schnall discuss how the AIDS crisis changed queer storytelling. | Lit Hub Criticism California,… View original source here