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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s your weekend round-up of the most-read stories from Today in Books, with my commentary. Grab your coffee and catch up! The Thriller Writer Outselling James Patterson & John Grisham You’re expecting this to be a story about

In 2023, all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels finally hit public domain. The famous detective had already been adapted, parodied, and reshaped a million times over, but now, it’s official! Sherlock Holmes is the blueprint for the grumpy genius character. In current Sherlock Holmes adaptations, there are four basic categories. First up is a pastiche,

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. In May, I asked you to pick which queer books I should read next from my TBR, and the winner was A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland. Unfortunately, my library hold then took weeks to come

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive

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

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1892, Pearl S. Buck is born.  Warsan Shire, Ann Patchett, Melissa Mogollon, and more. Diana Arterian on what Tara M. Stringfellow is reading now and next. | Lit Hub Criticism Akwaeke Emezi doesn’t outline books. What else don’t you know about them? Read their Lit

Arundati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize, which celebrates writers whose work display an “unflinching, unswerving” look at the world. Roy, who was the first Indian writer to win the Booker Prize in 1997, said she was “delighted” to win the award, saying “I wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write

“Right between the tits, every time!” If this doesn’t sound like the chatter you’d expect from the soundstage of a lavishly appointed Tudor-set period piece, you don’t know My Lady Jane. Adapted by showrunner Gemma Burgess from a saucy YA fantasy of the same name, the Prime Video live-action series—its inaugural season streaming in its

In case you missed it, I put together a halfway check-in survey for Read Harder, which will be collecting responses until the end of the day on July 1st — but I’m already sneaking a peek at your responses. I can’t wait to share the results, especially your favorite books you’ve read so far for

Paris, June 1930. At 3.00 in the morning, Nancy Cunard quickly writes a letter to her friend Louise Morgan, American journalist and editor at Everyman magazine: Article continues below We found a poem, a beauty, by a poet—so much so that it must be printed by itself. Irishman of 23, Ecole Normale here, that’s all

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1928, Sylvia Beach hosts a dinner party so that F. Scott Fitzgerald can meet James Joyce.  Helen Fielding on Bridget Jones and the place of the confessional narrative in the literary landscape. | Lit Hub Criticism “I took my fear over the future, my experiences with

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Jaime Herndon finished her MFA in nonfiction writing at Columbia, after leaving a life of psychosocial oncology and maternal-child health work. She is a writer, editor, and book reviewer who drinks way too much coffee. She is a

Join Lit Hub at Film Forum on Saturday, June 29th, at 5:30 p.m. ET, where we’ll be co-presenting a screening of the new film HOW TO COME ALIVE with Norman Mailer, an exploration of the infamous writer’s life and oeuvre. Our editor Olivia Rutigliano will moderate a Q&A with filmmaker Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Mailer, and

We all love a good hero(ine) story, and today is all about celebrating them! We’re paying homage to the most iconic heroes, looking at the ordinary everyday heroes, celebrating our queeros, and questioning the hero’s journey. Are you feeling valiant? Gallant? Courageous? Grab your sword, summon up that secret dormant magical power you’ve probably got

“Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin… has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of the clamorous claims of others, to stand “under the shelter of the wall,” as Plato puts it, and so to realize the perfection of what was in him,