Literature

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

May 9, 2024, 2:02pm For some months, members of the Freelance Solidarity Project and the National Writers Union (NWU) have been tracking, compiling and verifying incidents of retaliation against media workers who’ve expressed open support (or merely been perceived as supporting) Palestine. A full report on these efforts was published this week. It’s titled, “Red

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Happy May, everyone! I hope you’re getting nice weather where you are. We’ve been alternating between rain and sunny skies here — often on the same day — as spring is wont to do. Luckily, both rain and

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1968, Mercedes de Acosta dies.  What’s Wendy Chen reading now and next? Diana Arterian annotates the poet’s nightstand. | Lit Hub Criticism Maris Kreizman on PEN America and what happens when “some free speech is more privileged than others.” | Lit Hub Craft “Even where

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There are so many great queer books out this week that I had to split the new releases into two: the adult titles on Tuesday, and the YA/children’s ones today. But before we jump into those, I wanted

May 8, 2024, 1:07pm A satirical confession, from an imagined designer who unleashed the style of book cover with “amorphous shapes of suggestive colors” on the world. I’ve created a monster. I’m the designer who first created the colorful blob book cover. You know the ones: the vaguely egg-like, kidney-bean-like dollops of pastels and bright

Goodreads, with its more than 140 million members, can be a treasure trove of reader statistics. Recently, Goodreads editors decided to gather data on the most popular histories and biographies of the last 10 years. They comprised the list by looking at reviews, ratings, and how many of the site’s members added books to their

Jayne Anne Phillips exploded onto the American literary landscape with Black Tickets, a short story collection that remains so compellingly singular that it ought to function as a handbook for short story writers. It was published in 1979, but I didn’t know of it or read any of its electric stories until some 25 years

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The first time I encountered it was through an acquaintance’s post. At first glance I thought it was a nostalgic nod to Millennial horror series: Fear Street, Scary Stories, Goosebumps…many of my own childhood favorites! Then I read

May 7, 2024, 10:30am According to the powers that be (er, apparently according to Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network), May is Short Story Month. To celebrate, for the second year in a row, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending a single short story, free* to read online, every (work) day of the month. Why

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1932, William Faulkner arrives in Hollywood to begin working as a screenwriter.  Why not organize your bookcase using the vibes-only method? Monica Wood on why she organizes books by emotion. | Lit Hub Criticism “While African-American jazzmen had a hard time on the road, be

You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian Okay, here’s something I don’t see often: a queer, mid-century romance that’s also got slow burn and grumpy/sunshine elements. Cat Sebastian might have ate a little something with this premise. You Should Be So Lucky drops us into the 1960 baseball season, a time when Eddie O’Leary

May 6, 2024, 3:57pm Over the past twenty years or so, the Costume Institute’s annual Met Ball has exploded from in-crowd cause célèbre to the Oscars of fashion. The benefit began in 1948 as a slightly cheeky fundraiser popular among the Capote’s Swans set. But decades of careful marketing from the gala’s co-sponsor (Vogue, via

Biography (Two winners!) Winners King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Citation: A revelatory portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. that draws on new sources to enrich our understanding of each stage of the civil rights leader’s life, exploring his strengths and weaknesses, including the self-questioning and depression that accompanied his determination.

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1862, Henry David Thoreau dies.  “If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening.” Jon Fosse on how writing plays transformed his craft. | Lit Hub Craft Rebecca Kormos on the changing face of nature and

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Erica Ezeifedi, Associate Editor, is a transplant from Nashville, TN that has settled in the North East. In addition to being a writer, she has worked as a victim advocate and in public libraries, where she has focused

May 3, 2024, 12:09pm Airbnb, the vacation rental company and possibly why your rent is too high, recently announced a line of movie tie-in rentals inspired by cinema classics, including the house from Prince’s Purple Rain and a very precarious-looking, dangling recreation of the house from Up. While Disney adults craving an adrenaline rush might