Literature

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is published.   “The mainstream conversation on the racial wealth gap is nearly devoid of how much money was amassed, passed down, and repurposed through land theft and hoarding.” Brea Baker on Black land ownership and historical injustice. | Lit

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book sales in May 2024 were up over the same time in May 2023, thanks in part to a large increase in the adult fiction print market. Unit sales increased by 3 million, thanks to demand for books

Has the DEI Backlash Come for Publishing? Dan Sinykin and Richard Jean So have some fascinating data in The Atlantic. In looking at the racial breakdown of more than 1700 novels published by major publishers in the last five years (2019 – 2023), Sinykin and So found that the percentage by nonwhite writers doubled, from

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The lead story today turned out to be so interesting that I am making it a one story day. Barnes & Noble Buys Tattered Cover In a surprise (to me at least) move, Barnes & Noble has bought Tattered Cover, a local indie chain of bookstores in the Denver, Colorado area. Tattered Cover had been

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1982, both John Cheever and Djuna Barnes die.   “We are all unreliable narrators, recounting our stories through the filters of perception and memory.” Matt Young considers the nuances of memoir and autofiction. | Lit Hub Craft Levi Vonk on Summer Brenner’s Dust and the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Spicy books–aka, sizzling romance reads that are heavy on all things touch and temptation–have been all the rage on #BookTok for several years. Many credit finding a community of readers via TikTok vital to kickstarting their passion for

June 17, 2024, 1:21pm Arundhati Roy, the internationally recognized author and activist, is currently wanted by the Indian authorities. This comes after the Lieutenant General of Delhi granted police permission to prosecute the Booker Prize-winning novelist under a draconian anti-terrorism statute called the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. This statute allows the state to incarcerate a

Baggett was also behind a scheme that accused public school librarians of engaging in felony behavior. Baggett and Moms for Liberty member Tom Gurski took a copy of Storm and Fury to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office, alleging that the librarian was distributing pornography. When asked how they got their hands on the book,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1947, William Maxwell Evarts “Max” Perkins, the book editor best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, dies.   Article continues below View original source here

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June 14, 2024, 11:45am Hear ye, hear ye! The Seattle-based novelist E.J. Koh has won the 24th annual NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award for her book The Liberators.  A time and space-hopping epic following two Korean families, The Liberators enlists “memory, trauma, and empathy” to examine the irrevocable decisions we make in love and war. Though

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June 14, 2024, 12:32pm Finally, you’ve got an advanced copy of a hotly anticipated forthcoming book. Reading it will be great—sure, whatever—but showing it off is going to be even better. Go beyond the coy Instagram posting, and elevate your galley brag game.   “Accidentally” leave it out on tables, like a kid trying to

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June 14, 2024, 12:42pm One night in the rainy summer of 1816, at Lord Byron’s summer estate, Villa Diodati, in Cologny, near Geneva, Switzerland, Byron, and his friends Percy and Mary Shelley passed the time by telling ghost stories. The stories they created would lay the groundwork for future, publishable works. Perhaps most notable among

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1914, Dubliners is published in a run of 1250 copies. Though it debuted to generally positive reviews, in its first year, the book sold only 746 copies.   Can’t figure out what book to bring to the beach? The ultimate summer reading list is here.