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Seminary Co-op booksellers and friends have held a number of conversations with legendary bookseller Paul Yamazaki throughout the past two years, in the intoxicating stacks of City Lights, perambulating the streets of San Francisco, and over whiskey tumblers deep into the night. With Paul we’ve edited them into the format of one day and night’s

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TODAY: In 1912, Bram Stoker dies.   “Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was for two years the sixth poet laureate of Santa Fe. He also sold his plasma to get by.” Alissa Quart on writers and the false promises of American opportunity in the first installment of a six part collaboration with Dirt. | Lit Hub Adam Kuper on how German

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In 1962, when Mary McCarthy reviewed Pale Fire for The New Republic, she called it “a Jack-in-the-box, a Faberge gem, a clockwork toy, a chess problem, an infernal machine, a trap to catch reviewers, a cat-and-mouse game, a do-it-yourself novel.” Sixty-two years later, the 27-year-old writer/actress Tavi Gevinson has released a gender-swapped pastiche of Pale

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1894, Kate Chopin writes “The Story of an Hour,” which is published in the December 6 issue of Vogue as “The Dream of an Hour.”  When is enough enough? Ryan Chapman on wants, needs, money, and time. | Lit Hub Memoir “Resets are necessary throughout

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

April 18, 2024, 1:57pm Acclaimed Palestinian American poet, translator, and physician Fady Joudah has received a $100,000 prize from Poets & Writers. The Jackson Poetry Prize is awarded annually to an American poet of “exceptional talent,” and was chosen this year by a panel of three poets: Natalie Diaz, Gregory Pardlo and Diane Seuss. In

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