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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Suspense-thriller fans, take note! We’ve got an exclusive excerpt of The Guest by B.A. Paris today on Book Riot. And it’s Tuesday, so you know I’m picking the “it books” of the week. Keep a-scrolling! West Virginia House Passes

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This was a regular feature of my childhood, though it feels so long ago and far away, conceptually as well as literally, that I nearly forgot it ever happened: I’d go into town to the mall with my mom, and she’d drop me at the doors of the Borders or Barnes and Noble while she

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