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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The longlist for the 2024 International Booker Prize has been announced! This prize recognizes outstanding novels and short story collections translated to English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. There are 13 books on the longlist, which

March 11, 2024, 10:33am Today, the International Booker Prize—which seeks to honor the best novels and short story collections in translation published in the UK and/or Ireland every year—announced its 2024 longlist. The 13 books on this year’s longlist were selected from 149 books published between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024 and submitted

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. There are 24 tasks in the 2024 Read Harder Challenge, and while that’s spread out over the course of the year, it can sometimes feel like a lot of reading to get through. That’s why tasks like #6,

Mortality is the imagination’s greatest engine. For my father, who  almost reached a second century on earth, nearing the exit made him a poet. When Herbert Gold was seventeen, he managed to publish a single poem in a local Cleveland paper. Embarrassed at the results a few weeks later, he abandoned poetry, enlisted in the

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As the dreary days of winter slog toward spring, many of us are dreaming of a vacation. The good news is that even if you can’t get out of town, there are plenty of amazing rom-coms that can carry you away with will-they or won’t-they characters, lots of fun scenery, some occasional miscommunications and a

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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I get into a writing rut, I like to step back and take inspiration from other art forms, each of which has its own conventions as well as—encoded within those very conventions—all kinds of ways to break with convention and do something fun

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1947, Keri Hulme, the first  New Zealander to win the Man Booker Prize, is born. Image Source: Philip Tremewan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons   James Kaplan on Miles Davis’s legendary feud with Wynton Marsalis, one of the greatest generational battles in jazz. |

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1890, Bram Stoker begins work on Dracula.  “I am fascinated by the mismatch of these two systems, the fact that we can occupy two temporal spaces simultaneously…” Grace Loh Prasad on finding meaning in the space between Chinese and Western astrology, and what it means

This originally appeared in our Today in Books daily newsletter, where each day we round up the most interesting stories, news, essays, and other goings on in the world of books and reading. Sign up here if you want to get it. _____________________________ Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now? Of course,

March 8, 2024, 12:44pm The Oscars are Sunday! For those of you haven’t managed to watch all of this year’s nominees (or even if you have and would like a refresher), we’ve put together a handy cheat sheet to help you stay super informed for the ceremony’s likely shots, underdogs, and inevitable twists and turns.

Akira Toriyama was one of the most influential mangaka: he created Dragon Ball in 1984, which would later become the hit series Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super. This action fantasy comedy franchise inspired many other series, like One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. On March 7th, the official Dragon Ball Twitter/X account shared that

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1936, French novelist and Oulipo member Georges Perec is born.  Frank O’Hara, Evie Shockley, Monica Rico, and more. Here’s your annotated guide to what Diane Seuss is reading now and next. | Lit Hub Criticism Linda Troeller and Darcey Steinke consider aging and the liberatory

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Welcome to the fourth edition of Am I the Literary Asshole, the only biweekly “advice” column that asks you to consider the fact that “it’s five o’clock somewhere” is the true existential quandary of our time. RIP Jimmy Buffett, you would have loved the open bar at my wedding. I’ve been delighted by the flood