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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Lists Keep Coming and They Don’t Stop Coming Gone are the days when a publication could release

Yes, there are dog nipples on Amy Adams in Nightbitch the film adaptation—I had wondered about this, so perhaps it’s helpful to know. There are six in the book, but eight in the movie. The tail is there, too, a cystic realization of the postpartum “condition,” and one viewed in the squished mirror of the

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December 5, 2024, 12:26pm Every so often here in the Bookverse, someone hitches up their britches and pronounces criticism “dead.” They lament a media ecosystem driven by publicists, and actual or perceived reader scarcity. They yearn for the good old days, when your Normans and your Marys and your Paulines were unafraid to lance the

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The results of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards are finally in, and while it’s always fun to see what others are reading, we have to say that they are a little disappointing. Let’s rewind a bit first, though.

Not to brag, but Lit Hub is a pretty good website. We’re closing in on our ten-year anniversary—the digital publishing equivalent of roughly a century—and we’ve published consistently since the day we launched, resulting in an archive of thousands of articles. On top of that, Lit Hub has decent SEO and we index pretty well,

Haymarket Books, a nonprofit book publisher dedicated to publishing books that foster social and economic justice, is currently running a holiday fundraiser aimed at connecting incarcerated people with radical books that educate on politics. These books are meant to provide support to people inside the prison system, an inherently violent place. They aim to raise

December 4, 2024, 1:27pm The earliest known writing by Franz Kafka is about to be available for bidding at the auction house Bonhams. Kafka, who would go on to write surreal and absurd books later in his life, signed a short note in the friendship book of his friend Hugo Bergmann as a teen. The

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025?: A Festive Countdown In fact, of all the people I

First, there is her beauty. (Cinema is a visual medium after all.) Her face has angles but they are soft ones; her skin is pale but dusted with freckles. Her lips are full, her eyes sleepy. Her hair is sculpted but it moves. Her hands ruffle and fly. Her back is a whole landscape. Michelangelo

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The New York Times Picks Its 10 Best Books of 2024 If there is a list you want

Of the 600 Costco locations across the U.S., 500 will no longer be stocking books year round, starting in January 2025. All locations will continue to carry books during the holiday season, but there will no longer be a dedicated section for books. This decision was made partly because it’s difficult for them to compete

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1802, Jane Austen accepts, then rejects, a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither at his Hampshire home.  “Each of these events—or at least their coverage, emerged from a desire to overwhelm, dominate, or subsume. Infect, in other words.” Heather McCalden on World AIDS Day and

No question that the “story” of the day is that it is *groan* Cyber Monday (is this shopping day the last thing, along with the *double groan* Cyber Truck to use “cyber” as a descriptor?). Like I am sure is true with you, I have had dozens and dozens of emails this morning from companies

Where does the legacy of a virus begin and end? December 1st, 2024, marks the 37th iteration of World AIDS Day, but in the aftermath of a recent pandemic, and an era of culture defined by virality, what does it mean to globally commemorate a virus? Do we even still know—or care—what a virus actually

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I shared a list of queer adult books to vote for in the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards with the intention of sharing the YA books to vote for this week…except now the opening round has

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