Literature

July 19, 2024, 11:23am In case you missed it: Keanu Reeves has written a novel. Yes, it’s true: the internet’s boyfriend has teamed up with China Miéville, one of the great speculative fiction writers of all time, to produce a novel set in the world of BRZRKR—the comic book series he also created—and we here

This year’s quiet Pride was not quiet because the world became more accepting. Pride was less contentious because of the quiet/soft/self-censorship of Pride itself. “While threats and harassment were not an increased issue for me this year, the “soft censorship” of Pride from libraries, schools, and other institutions has negatively impacted every LGBTQ+ author I

July 18, 2024, 1:32pm Over 100 of the country’s most prominent literary translators—including Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky, Peter Cole, Jennifer Croft, Damion Searls, and Natasha Wimmer—have signed a damning open letter to the PEN America Board of Trustees, calling for the transfer of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund endowment to another institution: We write now out of

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July 18, 2024, 11:47am PEN America United has won a tentative, first bargaining agreement with PEN America management after a long, 21-month negotiation. The announcement also comes two weeks after the entire membership voted unanimously to authorize a strike if it became necessary. We’re still waiting to see what the terms of the agreement will

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July 17, 2024, 2:55pm If you have any cycling fans in your life, you know that many of us have been glued to the Tour de France for the last three weeks. After today’s grueling mountain section, there are only a few days of racing remaining, with cycling’s big competition about to wrap up on

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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