Literature

In two new novels, intense friendships—and the romantic possibilities they might hold for the characters—are stirred up by the avenues and alleyways of the cities they’re set in: turn-of-the-millennium Berlin in I Make Envy on Your Disco, and WW1-era Paris in The Titanic Survivors Book Club. In Berlin, an art advisor finds himself lost in

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In the mid-1890s, the Pall-Mall Gazette in England ran illustrations by Fred T. Jane in a series called “Guesses at Futurity,” which were visual speculations on life in the year 2000. Number 7 was “Interplanetary Communication. Gold Mining on the Moon.” A partially buried and shaded glass tunnel ran from the foreground past two lampposts and

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Last month, Mischa Barton went on Alex Cooper’s viral podcast, “Call Her Daddy.” She revealed that she turned down a spot at Yale to star in The OC; that, at 17, she lost her virginity to her then 25-year-old costar, Ben McKenzie (a relationship, she said, that was encouraged by producers); and that TV executives

We’re a quarter of the way through the year, if you can believe it, which makes it a good time to look back at the state of books so far in 2024. Goodreads has just released a list of 51 Nonfiction Hits of 2024 (So Far), separated into Essays, Memoirs, History & Biography, Science, and

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1856, of Booker T. Washington is born.   Timothy Schaffert and Eric Schnall discuss how the AIDS crisis changed queer storytelling. | Lit Hub Criticism California, here we come. Kelly Marie Coyne revisits The OC  and considers society’s lethal obsession with the white starlet. | Lit

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Patricia Thang is an educator located in Los Angeles. Though a native Angeleno through and through, her heart also belongs to Tokyo, where much of her family is from. Besides books, she is an enthusiastic devourer of many

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

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