Literature

August 21, 2024, 1:26pm Print is dead, long live print. We’re either eulogizing the industry or trying to reboot it. Either way, many in the literary establishment still seem to be obsessed with pages, rustling softly between our fingers. Say what you will about the twentieth century, but it produced a lot of elegant design and

Fall book club picks, historical fiction for kids, the most interesting questions in books, and more today on Book Riot: There’s a natural breeze and I can smell people cooking soup. And listen, I am all for leaving this hell of a summer behind us. Turns out the book world is, too. As various fall

August 20, 2024, 9:24am Though the big houses keep a-mergin’, the publishing wheel keeps on turnin’. In this case, that wheel is a romance media company. Romancelandia, meet 831 stories. Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur are the minds behind the new company, whose title is “a nod to late-’90s pager code for “I love you.”

Welcome to Tuesday. Let’s read about books, shall we? It’s no surprise that historical fiction readers are always on the lookout for the next breakout title in the genre — can anyone unseat Kristin Hannah? Fall is the biggest publishing season of the year, and it brings some fantastic new historical fiction releases to the

August 20, 2024, 10:56am I’m happy to report that the internet has been redeemed for another day. I recently came across this very impressive and carefully curated map of bookstores on www.iheartbookstores.com, a simple and very useful site: a searchable, scrollable, and sortable map and database of 6,001 non-chain bookstores. Pairs well with our literary

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 WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View

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Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves

August 19, 2024, 12:14pm It’s been a rough year for the literary festival. Sparked by a campaign from Fossil Free Books (FFB), nine festivals that previously relied on support from the Baillie Gifford Foundation dropped or lost that company’s sponsorship after the firm failed to divest from fossil fuel companies and interests allied with Israel’s

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Though I’ve heard ballet dancers say there are moments onstage when they feel more like actors than athletes, I’ve always assumed the choices available to dancers as actors were few, and that embodying a character was secondary to embodying the most perfect lines of one’s own body. Under ballet’s demands of technical precision, I thought

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1998, journalist and author Dorothy West dies.  Steve Paul remembers Evan S. Connell, a quiet giant of American literature. | Lit Hub Biography “Our kindergarten teachers were right: it’s show and tell.” Jessica Anthony on the art of fictional time. | Lit Hub Craft Emma

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in

August 16, 2024, 12:19pm Photo by Steven Walker One of the few places where you don’t want to see a huge stack of books is in a dumpster, but this is exactly what Floridians found yesterday on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota. Reporter Steven Walker and others spotted piles and piles

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1945, the novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is published. Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “We were searching for a writing method that was less like writing and more like living.” Sofia Samatar

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As of July, Our Queerest Shelves is three years old! Writing this newsletter is truly the highlight of my professional life. Being paid to write about queer books is a dream come true. One of my favorite parts