Literature

Biography (Two winners!) Winners King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Citation: A revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each stage of the civil rights leader’s life, exploring his strengths and weaknesses, including the self-questioning and depression that accompanied his determination.

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1862, Henry David Thoreau dies.  “If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening.” Jon Fosse on how writing plays transformed his craft. | Lit Hub Craft Rebecca Kormos on the changing face of nature and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

May 3, 2024, 12:09pm Airbnb, the vacation rental company and possibly why your rent is too high, recently announced a line of movie tie-in rentals inspired by cinema classics, including the house from Prince’s Purple Rain and a very precarious-looking, dangling recreation of the house from Up. While Disney adults craving an adrenaline rush might

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I don’t usually include personal anecdotes in film reviews, lest they detract from the critical discussion at hand, but I’d just like to open this review by saying that I brought my 87-year-old Croatian grandmother with me to my advance screening of The Fall Guy in IMAX, and after we got her situated in her

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May 3, 2024, 2:26pm Conceived as a modern day Elizabeth Bennet—or at least, another woman in love with an emotionally unavailable man—Bridget Jones made a massive splash when she hit the shelves in 1996. Her diary, written by Helen Fielding and alternately derided and praised for its depiction of a neurotic, happy-go-nutty modern “singleton,” sold

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1900, Croatian writer and translator Hugo Badalić dies.   Aarathi Prasad on how silk helped Genghis Khan conquer a continent. | Lit Hub History “Shortly after 2:30, on the morning of Tuesday, April 30, one thousand New York City policemen marched onto the campus in military

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May 3, 2024, 3:20pm If you haven’t read yesterday’s New York Magazine piece about the former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief and recently hired chief creative and content officer at The Daily Beast, I highly recommend it. It seems that the media industry, having tried pivoting to video, hedge funds, newsletters, and union busting, is back to rage-bait listicles. My

Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Brag is Coming From Inside the House Book Riot’s Kelly Jensen has spent the last few years becoming a leading name in book banning coverage, and we couldn’t be prouder to see her named as one

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1896, Dodie Smith, English children’s novelist and playwright best known for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, is born.   “our concealer, we call it industrial lighting, / with no desire to feed another, with ten free articles / monthly remaining, our headshots appearing.”

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

May 2, 2024, 12:57pm If you’re in New York City next Tuesday, May 7, why not head on over to Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square, where more than two dozen writers and musicians will be performing their work to raise money for We Are Not Numbers, a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project in Gaza that provides

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1936, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s work in progress, Conversation at Midnight, is burned in a hotel fire on Sanibel Island, Florida.  Caroline Carlson recommends new children’s books by Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “True intimacy means striving