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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nimona by ND Stevenson is a bestselling graphic novel that came out in 2015. In 2023, the animated adaptation was released on Netflix, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. And now, the entire

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1952, Amy Tan is born.  Kate Sidley on writing in the aftermath of a home robbery: “When bad things happen, they happen off-page, out of sight, and with a certain delicacy.” | Lit Hub Memoir Lockdown may be over, but what did it to to

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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Writing is hard work, and often frustrating, unfruitful, or downright excruciating. I spend a great deal of time avoiding even thinking about sitting down to work, and therefore, necessarily, I spend another significant amount of time persuading myself I ought to do it. And how

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January 14, 1990Because of an editing error, an article in Friday’s theater section transposed the identifications of two people involved in the production of Waiting for Bruce, a farce now in rehearsal at the Rivoli. Ralph W. Murtaugh, Jr., a New York attorney, is one of the play’s financial backers. Hilary Murtaugh plays the ingenue.

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1907, the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, poet Giosuè Carduccithe, dies.  View original source here

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TODAY: In 1982, after completing an interview, Philip K. Dick ignores advice to go immediately to hospital. A fortnight later, after two strokes, he dies.  “Minor Detail had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.” Gunnhild Øyehaug on reading Adania Shibli. | Lit Hub Criticism Nicki Kattoura

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February 16, 2024, 3:59pm The Folio Society has just released a special edition of Becky Chambers’s Hugo-Award-winning novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. New illustrations were commissioned from the artist Zoë van Dijk. Becky Chambers and Folio shared with us her first impressions of this stunning new volume of her work and

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Princess Cimorene lives in the pleasant and exceedingly ordinary kingdom of Linderwall and has everything a young girl could possibly want. But there are two problems: she’s bored out her mind and refuses to be proper. Cimorene doesn’t fit in with her beautiful sisters and insists on learning

February 16, 2024, 11:01am Yep, Anna Wintour is being literary again. The 2024 Met Gala, this year co-chaired by Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, and Zendaya, along with Wintour, will be held at the museum this spring to celebrate an exhibition called “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Said exhibition will not celebrate fairy tales so

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February 15, 2024, 1:45pm The Israeli army has raided and destroyed two publishing houses in the West Bank.   The IDF has attacked and destroyed two Palestinian publishing houses in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/wAlxVSGcDZ — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 15, 2024 This latest raid in Ramallah is one of a series of major raids launched

The latest update on the Hugo Awards scandal confirms what many suspected — that works and authors (especially Babel, a Sandman episode, and Xiran Jay Zhao) deemed ineligible despite their popularity were labelled as such at least in part because of politics. Writers Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford discuss the contents of the files

February 15, 2024, 10:30am Today, the National Book Foundation announced a change in the eligibility criteria for the annual National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Beginning with the 75th National Book Awards, submissions for which open on March 13 of this year, the prizes will be open not only to