Literature

October 18, 2024, 1:27pm Bob the Drag Queen has written a book, y’all. And this is not the standard tell-all memoir announcement now standard practice for the cross-over artist with a brand to build. Luckily for the world, the Drag Race winning superstar has written a novel. And one that looks to be, um, delightfully

Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. In the fall months, it’s all about dark academia. Give me a creepy school. Give me suspicious students. Give me teachers with

The following is from Disturbing the Bones.Jeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist and playwright. Author of ten books of cultural history and investigative reporting, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and Salon.com. Andrew Davis is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of numerous films, including Holes, Under

Last night, the winners of this year’s Kirkus Prizes were announced in a livestreamed ceremony that took place in Manhattan. The Kirkus Prizes have been awarded since 2014 and grant each of their recipients a trophy as well as $50,000 in cash. This year’s winners were selected out of 1,444 books that were given a

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1915, Arthur Miller is born. Cundill Prize Finalist Kathleen DuVal recommends essential books for understanding Native American history  by David Treuer, Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Are you the asshole if you’re annoyed by a writer friend who

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The National Book Foundation has announced comedian and author Kate McKinnon as host of the 2024 National Book Awards, with musical guest Jon Batiste. This year marks 75 years of the National Book Awards, which honor the best

October 16, 2024, 9:00pm At a ceremony in New York City this evening, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 2024 Kirkus Prize, given annual in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature. “This year’s prize-winning books—each written with elegance and lucidity—illuminate tragedies both personal and historical, helping us to better understand our world and

Would it be the 2020s without a new contemporary romance by Emily Henry to look forward to? The mega bestselling author’s latest is titled Great Big Beautiful Life, and feels like it fits in a familiar groove. It’s a contemporary romance about two writers (like 2020’s Beach Read) that will, undoubtably, plumb the depths of

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1847, Jane Eyre is published. “Americans are never shown what it actually looks like when a US drone strike hits a wedding party, or a child is crushed by a US tank.” Noam Chomsky on the horrors America hides as it wages war. | Lit

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October 15, 2024, 5:40pm Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last week, and no, we’re still not over it! Beating out a sea of favored predictions, Kang’s singularly surreal and audacious prose was a dark horse for Big Swede recognition. The academy praised Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is a classic of magical realism that was adapted into the 1992 movie of the same name, and now it’s appearing on screen in a new adaptation: an HBO Original series

October 15, 2024, 11:31am Arundhati Roy, the internationally celebrated author and human rights activist, has once again proven herself to be a model culture worker. On receiving the PEN Foundation’s annually given Pinter Prize last week, Roy announced that she’d be donating her prize money to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Named for the late

There’s been a lot of rumors about Taylor Swift writing a book, and now we finally have confirmation: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Book is out November 29th. This is a 256-page book with 500 pictures from the tour, accompanied by reflections written by Taylor Swift. It will be $40 and is available only through

In my latest novel, The Colony Club, I begin with one character, Daisy Harriman, in 1968, just her and a young reporter as she looks back over her life. She’s old, subdued but proud of her achievements. It’s an intimate scene, only two people in the spotlight. Article continues after advertisement That scene cuts to

Welcome to The Best of Book Riot, our daily round-up of what’s on offer across our site, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels. Not everything is for everyone, but there is something for everyone. Thanks to a new proviso in the South Carolina state budget, at least one public library system in the state has made

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement Stream of consciousness is not a literary affectation as many like to think, but the way our brains naturally work; traditionally we’re taught that narrative fiction requires breaks and quotation marks and chapters to be accessible, that dense, unbroken novels with serpentine sentences

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Publishers See a Bright Future in the Cards Every time I peruse publisher catalogs, I’m struck by the