Literature

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. It’s been a quiet start to the week news-wise, and TBH, I don’t hate it. Let’s hit a

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1894, Anton Chekhov’s story “The Student” is published in Russkie Vedomosti.  “I think this lack of clarity about money arises because the stories literary authors want to tell are fundamentally upper-middle and upper-class stories.” Naomi Kanakia wonders why we don’t talk about money in novels

You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen This is a hot tamale of a release — all the mystery/thriller girlies are excited about it. It follows Annie “Anh Le” Shaw, who grew up poor but now seems to have it all — a great career, a nice house, and a loving husband and

April 15, 2024, 2:31pm Try as they might, the IRS can’t manage to make the vital work of tax collection simple or enjoyable. The agency can be fun-ish. They produced a Star Trek parody in 2010—fun!—but were later chastised by Congress for the production expenses—not fun! Don’t expect sequels any time soon. Hopefully your taxes

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. April is Autism Acceptance Month! You can learn more about it, as well as find a lot of great resources about autism, at the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, including their Autism Acceptance Month website. It’s important when seeking out

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1802, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, see a “long belt” of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”    “Darryl Lorenzo Wellington was for two years the sixth poet laureate of Santa Fe. He also sold his plasma to

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Rachel Rosenberg has been writing since she was a child—at 13, she was published alongside celebs and fellow teens in Chicken Soup For the Teenage Soul 2. Rachel has a degree in Creative Writing from Montreal’s Concordia University;

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted by the 104th Congress on January 3 and signed into law by President Clinton on February 8. It was a big overhaul of American telecommunications code—the first significant one in sixty years. For the first time, the Internet was included for broadcast spectrum allotment. Because the act deregulated

Rakuten Kobo has announced that it will be releasing its first color ereaders, the the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. These ereaders will both Kaledio color screen technology, the latest in e-ink innovation. There will be a bit of a drawback that comes with th new subtle pastel color palette: the resolution

When the PEN award nominations went live earlier this week, several writers immediately withdrew from the longlists over the organization’s response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza. These writers stand alongside the 1,300 who signed an open letter to PEN America in February, the high-profile authors who are boycotting this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, and

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April 12, 2024, 1:32pm There’s just something about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though I know all that glitters covers doom and profound exploitation, my personal heart beats a little faster when confronted with a Busby Berkeley kick line or a painted backdrop. Give me Gene Kelly’s empty-headed grin in a downpour, or Dorothy Dandridge’s little

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1953, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, is published.   Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s dystopian sci-fi novel, The Last Man: “As a man, she would have cut a swathe through nineteenth-century English intellectual life and paid no price for living with her future

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April 12, 2024, 1:55pm I like to think of online discourse as a neverending bar crawl. A roving and insatiable crowd plods around, periodically busting in on the unsuspecting to cheer, boo, and brawl to exhaustion, and then parade off to the next destination. It’s fun, it’s raucous, it’s insufferable. Every so often, the crowd

There’s nothing quite like scrolling the Am I the Asshole? (AITA) subreddit when you want a taste of gossip and a reminder that your life could be worse. It’s an eye-catching format, which is why it also makes for a great way to pitch a book. Recently on X/Twitter, romance novelists with books coming out

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1937, Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, is born.   View original source here