Literature

When the PEN award nominations went live earlier this week, several writers immediately withdrew from the longlists over the organization’s response to the unfolding genocide in Gaza. These writers stand alongside the 1,300 who signed an open letter to PEN America in February, the high-profile authors who are boycotting this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, and

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April 12, 2024, 1:32pm There’s just something about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Though I know all that glitters covers doom and profound exploitation, my personal heart beats a little faster when confronted with a Busby Berkeley kick line or a painted backdrop. Give me Gene Kelly’s empty-headed grin in a downpour, or Dorothy Dandridge’s little

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The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1953, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, is published.   Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s dystopian sci-fi novel, The Last Man: “As a man, she would have cut a swathe through nineteenth-century English intellectual life and paid no price for living with her future

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April 12, 2024, 1:55pm I like to think of online discourse as a neverending bar crawl. A roving and insatiable crowd plods around, periodically busting in on the unsuspecting to cheer, boo, and brawl to exhaustion, and then parade off to the next destination. It’s fun, it’s raucous, it’s insufferable. Every so often, the crowd

There’s nothing quite like scrolling the Am I the Asshole? (AITA) subreddit when you want a taste of gossip and a reminder that your life could be worse. It’s an eye-catching format, which is why it also makes for a great way to pitch a book. Recently on X/Twitter, romance novelists with books coming out

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1937, Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, is born.   View original source here

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Yashvi Peeti is an aspiring writer and an aspiring penguin. She has worked as an editorial intern with Penguin Random House India and HarperCollins Publishers India. She is always up for fangirling over poetry, taking a walk in

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s April, and you know what that means: the weather is all over the place. It feels like we switch seasons several times every day. Immediately after I turned off all the heaters, it began to get frosty.

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1818, John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge go for a walk on Hampstead Heath. In a letter to his brother George, Keats writes that they talked about “a thousand things.”  “The tabloid-style reporting by writers of the early twentieth century is consistent with a long

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio About the book club: Jenna Bush Hager — current co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna — independently chooses a book each month that she personally loves. (“Jenna was not paid to mention these items and is unaffiliated with the authors and publishers“) What Jenna said about the book: “It’s

April 10, 2024, 4:37pm Less than a month out from the 20th incarnation of its flagship World Voices Festival, the protests against PEN America’s response to the war on Gaza are continuing to mount. In just the last few days, several authors have withdrawn their books from PEN awards consideration; esteemed translator Esther Allen, who

Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott Anne Lamott is a beloved author, and this is her 20th book! It’s easy to know why it’s popular today: Somehow came out yesterday. Each chapter examines different kinds of love and how it changes our lives: “Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1966, Evelyn Waugh dies after attending an upsettingly modern Easter Sunday Mass.   Are you an American curious about queer Canada’s past? Rose Sutherland recommends a crash course in historical fiction, including Suzette Meyr, Heather O’Neil, Loghan Paylor, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

I am a huge fan of the Quick & Easy Guides put out by Limerence Press. They are unintimidating, clear, concise, and fairly inexpensive, so they aren’t only good, impactful reads, but they may also be easy to buy extra copies to give to others. I definitely did that with the Quick & Easy Guide