Literature

April 4, 2024, 3:04pm “We refuse to let our work distract for even a second from the filthy business of war. To use language that will be familiar to a bank: it’s not worth it. We won’t be bought. There isn’t a book or a film or painting here that is worth the slaughter of

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1928, Maya Angelou is born.   View original source here

The Prospects by KT Hoffman What’s better than baseball season? Baseball ROMANCE season!  Gene is the first openly trans professional baseball player. He loves baseball and loves playing on his team (the Beaverton Beavers, lol), but his game is turned upside down when his rival is traded to the Beavers. They start off as vicious

April 3, 2024, 12:44pm It’s hard not to think about form when writing—to say nothing of starting—an obituary for John Barth. The conventions of the obituary are there to be picked up: appraise the work succinctly (see “kaleidoscopic” above), trace the biography (did you know he studied jazz?), and end with a quote, always end

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Turtles All the Way Down is a 2017 YA novel by John Green, author of The Fault In Our Stars and Looking for Alaska. It follows Aza, a teenager with OCD, as she navigates friendship, romance…and trying to

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1895, Oscar Wilde sues the Marquess of Queensbury for defamation for criminal libel at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as Old Bailey. The trial does not go well.  Get ready for the fun and the fantastical. Caroline Carlson recommends new

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Ashlie (she/her) is an educator, librarian, and writer. She is committed to diversifying the reading lives of her students and supporting fat acceptance as it intersects with other women’s issues. She’s also perpetually striving to learn more about

April 2, 2024, 3:26pm Today, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Claire Jiménez’s What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central). What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez was chosen by a panel of judges (Xochitl Gonzalez, Alan Michael Parker, and Lynn Steger Strong) from a pool of 445 novels and short story

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Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1854, Charles Dickens‘ novel Hard Times begins serialization in his magazine Household Words.  View original source here

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