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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1910, O. Henry dies. “The most effective weapon our colonizers wield over us is to make us believe, on some fundamental level, that we are not worthy of better.” Tareq Baconi on overcoming shared helplessness and working towards liberation in Palestine and beyond. | Lit

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If you love horror or are eager to dip your toes into it, one place you’ll want to turn to are the Bram Stoker Award winners. This year’s slate of best horror books were just announced at StokerCon

There are as many ways to mark your place in a book as there are opinions about it. The memes and the Dungeons and Dragons alignment charts are fun, but it’s time to get serious and once and for all rank the bookmarks. Let’s go: 22. As Part of a Brand’s Social Media Campaign The

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka A very good piece of literary-cum-internet criticism from Amanda Hess for the New York Times. I have myself stumbled upon Kafka-core social media posting and immediately got the appeal. I think

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1940, 22-year-old Carson McCullers’ first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, is published.  Did medieval people care about their birth charts? Maybe not, but they did look to the stars for answers. | Lit Hub History “When I go to the page to write,

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June 3, 2024, 2:09pm Image via Wikimedia and KPBS Online Kafkologists rejoice, a new movie about the final, romance-filled year of the writer’s life is headed for theaters across the world. The Glory of Life is a German-language film based on Michael Kumpfmüller’s novel Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens. The film follows Kafka’s last year before

We’re almost halfway through 2024, if you can believe it, which means taking a good hard look at our reading goals for the year. Are you on track to complete them? Or do you need to change pace? One of the most popular reading challenges is on Goodreads, which just asks you how many books

Make no mistake: There is an ideological witch hunt happening on college campuses right now, the likes of which has not been seen since Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un- American Activities Committee tried to ruin people’s reputations in the middle of the last century. Students and professors are being targeted by university administrators,

The argument was over books. Specifically, this argument was over The Handmaid’s Tale (Graphic Novel), which Annabelle discovered after her class period ended and she went to the library to ask. The library and the librarian were among her favorite things at school. That moment catalyzed her. Annabelle knew she had to ensure that the

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Every month, I round up the links that you all clicked on the most from last month’s Our Queerest Shelves newsletters. I love seeing which titles caught your eye — was it because you wanted to buy it

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. As of this moment, my daughter is on the longest reading bender of her young life. She picked up the Percy Jackson series about a week ago, burned through that, and now is on to the Heroes of

Exhibit by R. O. Kwon I adored R. O. Kwon’s debut novel, The Incendiaries and have been watching out for her next novel ever since. There’s something about Kwon’s stripped-down writing style that captures readers’ imaginations and spurs us on to keep reading. In Exhibit, we follow Jin Han, a photographer living in San Francisco

May 30, 2024, 2:46pm I spent a few days in DC over the long weekend for a wedding. Walking around leafy and well-appointed Capital Hill, I overheard a conversation between two older folks, as their dogs warily sniffed each other, about how people were taking and selling books from the little free libraries around the

TikTok Turns Self-Published Journal Into Million-Copy Hit Here is the TikTok feedback loop in action. (If you haven’t already read Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld, you’re gonna want to after this story.) In 2021, after coming across Carl Jung’s theories about the shadow self and finding them helpful for managing her anxiety, Keila Shaheen self-published The Shadow