Literature

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
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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
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on
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Paul Auster, prolific author and screenwriter, died Tuesday evening at 77 from lung cancer. Originally from New Jersey, Auster settled into Brooklyn in 1980, and became what The New York Times calls the borough’s literary “patron saint.” In the ’80s and ’90s, Auster’s novels — which were often about things like identity, loss, and the
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April 30, 2024, 3:54pm Basim Khandaqji, a Palestinian writer who has been confined to an Israeli prison cell for the past 20 years, has won this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his forth novel, A Mask, the Colour of the Sky. The novel follow Nur, an archaeologist residing in a refugee camp in Ramallah who discovers a blue
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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1877, Alice B. Toklas is born.   Dorothy Chan, Erik Larson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and more! These 20 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists We do it for the aesthetic. Here are the best book covers of April. | Lit Hub Design “There’s
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The white picket fence is a commonly used bit of symbolism. It’s the American Dream. Or suburbia. Or whiteness. Or a happily ever after. Or suffocating homogeneity. Or are those all being used interchangeably? I find it interesting how this seemingly arbitrary bit of lawn design can have so much meaning packed into it, especially
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April 29, 2024, 2:15pm You can’t swing a Luddite’s hammer these days without hitting a piece of tech that’s overhyped and underdelivered. AI is the ultimate “solution TK,” promising to fix everything at some point down the road, while actually making the internet more dangerous and the planet more unlivable. The metaverse failed to take
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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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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In, 1917, avant-garde filmmaker and writer Maya Deren is born.   Lisa Ko, Lottie Hazell, and more. These are the best audiobooks of April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists “The free market was untouchable and blameless, because neoliberal ideology, pervasive as the air we breathed, made it
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Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward The first Catriona Ward book I ever read was The Last House on Needless Street, and it’s probably still my favorite. But having talked to many fans of this author, I’ve learned that most people enjoy their first Catriona Ward book the most. Your first Catriona Ward book is
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April 26, 2024, 10:15am 🎵 It’s the moooost wonderfullll tiiiiime of the yeaaaar!🎵 That’s right, folks: tomorrow is perhaps the greatest book-related holiday on the calendar: Independent Bookstore Day! As I’ve been saying at the top of bookstore events at my local indie (where I moonlight as the events manager), every day can/should be Independent
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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas Sarah J. Maas may no longer be the reigning queen of Romantasy, but don’t count her out yet. She’s slipped down the bestseller list recently, but clearly, there are still a ton of people just discovering her books
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April 26, 2024, 11:56am As students organize and resist to demand action and justice for Palestinians, publishers are offering free books on Palestine, protest, and more, in solidarity. Verso has seven ebooks available for download, including a case for sanctions against Israel, a collection on 2011’s Occupy movement, and a compendium of revolt and resistance.
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April 26, 2024, 12:25pm Shaimaa Alareer, an accomplished Palestinian illustrator and the eldest daughter of the murdered poet Refaat Alareer, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on her home in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City earlier today. The attack also claimed the lives of her husband, Mohammed Siyam, an engineer, and their infant son, Abdul Rahman.
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