Literature

Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk (Sapphic Gothic Novel) This literary, feminist, sapphic vampire novel has been getting rave reviews, including in The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a starred Booklist review. Also, I can say that this is one the reviewers at my sapphic book blog, the Lesbrary, were

April 22, 2024, 5:24pm Image from Air Mail’s Instagram The foibles and flailings of the very rich, the very powerful, and the very New York were once the targets of Spy, the pioneering magazine started by Kurt Anderson and Graydon Carter. Spy once sent 13-cent checks to rich New Yorkers and reported on who cashed

Not all book recommendation sources are equal. Years ago, I saw a tweet from a popular YA author asking his followers for their favorite little-known books. The responses were filled with books like The Hunger Games and Catcher in the Rye: some of the most read and recognized books of all time. I was so

In the summer between seventh and eighth grade, my dad’s brother, Uncle Roy, came to watch my sister Missy and me while our parents saw our grandma Lori die. Lori lived in an aluminum shack down in Nebraska; she was our mom’s mother, but our mom couldn’t travel two states southward alone, couldn’t be trusted

I first read Megan Giddings’s The Women Could Fly two years ago, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s the type of book that made me feel all of the emotions. I laughed, I cried, I felt deeply unsettled. And I want everyone else to read this book, too, so I can talk to

The following is the final installment of a six-part collaboration with Dirt about “The Myth of the Middle Class” writer.  ______________________ As a former Catholic, I was raised to avoid public discussions of both money and oneself. Pride goeth before the fall, etc. As an American, money’s all I think about. Especially other people’s money, the real

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Ernesto “Che” Guevera’s inventory of possessions upon his capture by Bolivian Special Forces on October 7, 1967—several maps of Vallegrande (hand-drawn, color pencil), twelve rolls of film (undeveloped), a two-way radio (broken), a notebook filled with coded missives (indecipherable), and a green-jacketed journal filled with poetry in his small, meticulous handwriting. Encrusted with filth, though

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Seminary Co-op booksellers and friends have held a number of conversations with legendary bookseller Paul Yamazaki throughout the past two years, in the intoxicating stacks of City Lights, perambulating the streets of San Francisco, and over whiskey tumblers deep into the night. With Paul we’ve edited them into the format of one day and night’s

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TODAY: In 1912, Bram Stoker dies.   “Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was for two years the sixth poet laureate of Santa Fe. He also sold his plasma to get by.” Alissa Quart on writers and the false promises of American opportunity in the first installment of a six part collaboration with Dirt. | Lit Hub Adam Kuper on how German

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In 1962, when Mary McCarthy reviewed Pale Fire for The New Republic, she called it “a Jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel.” Sixty-two years later, the 27-year-old writer/actress Tavi Gevinson has released a gender-swapped pastiche of Pale

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1894, Kate Chopin writes “The Story of an Hour,” which is published in the December 6 issue of Vogue as “The Dream of an Hour.”  When is enough enough? Ryan Chapman on wants, needs, money, and time. | Lit Hub Memoir “Resets are necessary throughout

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

April 18, 2024, 1:57pm Acclaimed Palestinian American poet, translator, and physician Fady Joudah has received a $100,000 prize from Poets & Writers. The Jackson Poetry Prize is awarded annually to an American poet of “exceptional talent,” and was chosen this year by a panel of three poets: Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo and Diane Seuss. In