Literature

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Last weekend was one of my biggest holidays of the year: Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon. It happens biannually, in April and October, and I have been doing it every year since 2012! This time really snuck up on me,

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1958, a United States federal court rules that Ezra Pound is to be released from an asylum.   “It always says the same thing: the vast majority of writers don’t earn enough from writing to make a decent living.” David Hill reflects on writing as labor.

My Riot by Rick Spears and Emmett Helen Are you drawn toward stories of band life? You are so going to love this graphic novel. When My Riot opens, it’s 1991, and 17-year-old Valerie Simmons is chugging along through an average suburban life, landing her first job at an ice cream shop and training to

April 17, 2024, 12:49pm In a recent entry from his excellent newsletter “How Things Work,” the labor journalist Hamilton Nolan decried the state of the column, as epitomized in the op-ed section of the paper of record. In a snort-inducing takedown, Nolan argued that the kind of writing manufactured daily for a broad audience tends

Netflix just released the first trailer for the adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. The trailer for the series adaptation opens with Colonel Aureliano Buendía as an adult (played by Claudio Cataño) facing a firing squad, with the book’s iconic opening line narrated in Spanish with English

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1695, Mexican poet, philosopher, and composer Juana Inés de la Cruz dies.   What does being a writer look like financially? Real writers frankly discuss their incomes, expenses, and weekly budgets. | Lit Hub Craft “When I’m at the restaurant, that’s fully who I am; I

Orange by Ichigo Takano On the first day of 11th grade, Naho receives a strange letter. The writer of the letter claims to be Naho from the future — ten years in the future, to be precise. And in it, future Naho tells her younger self to look out for Kakeru, a new student who

April 16, 2024, 10:56am Ocean Vuong has a new novel set to be published in June 2025, as announced on Publishers Marketplace and Vuong’s Instagram. The Emperor of Gladness is Vuong’s second novel, and “follows a year in the life of a wayward young man in New England who, by chance, becomes the caretaker for

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. It’s been a quiet start to the week news-wise, and TBH, I don’t hate it. Let’s hit a

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1894, Anton Chekhov’s story “The Student” is published in Russkie Vedomosti.  “I think this lack of clarity about money arises because the stories literary authors want to tell are fundamentally upper-middle and upper-class stories.” Naomi Kanakia wonders why we don’t talk about money in novels

You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen This is a hot tamale of a release — all the mystery/thriller girlies are excited about it. It follows Annie “Anh Le” Shaw, who grew up poor but now seems to have it all — a great career, a nice house, and a loving husband and

April 15, 2024, 2:31pm Try as they might, the IRS can’t manage to make the vital work of tax collection simple or enjoyable. The agency can be fun-ish. They produced a Star Trek parody in 2010—fun!—but were later chastised by Congress for the production expenses—not fun! Don’t expect sequels any time soon. Hopefully your taxes

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. April is Autism Acceptance Month! You can learn more about it, as well as find a lot of great resources about autism, at the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, including their Autism Acceptance Month website. It’s important when seeking out

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”    “Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was for two years the sixth poet laureate of Santa Fe. He also sold his plasma to

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel Rosenberg has been writing since she was a child—at 13, she was published alongside celebs and fellow teens in Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul 2. Rachel has a degree in Creative Writing from Montreal’s Concordia University;

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted by the 104th Congress on January 3 and signed into law by President Clinton on February 8. It was a big overhaul of American telecommunications code—the first significant one in sixty years. For the first time, the Internet was included for broadcast spectrum allotment. Because the act deregulated

Rakuten Kobo has announced that it will be releasing its first color ereaders, the the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. These ereaders will both Kaledio color screen technology, the latest in e-ink innovation. There will be a bit of a drawback that comes with th new subtle pastel color palette: the resolution

When the PEN award nominations went live earlier this week, several writers immediately withdrew from the longlists over the organization’s response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza. These writers stand alongside the 1,300 who signed an open letter to PEN America in February, the high-profile authors who are boycotting this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, and