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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Series Editor Jenny Minton Quigley on the Importance of Finding the Unusual in the Ordinary

By Jenny Minton Quigley | April 22, 2024

“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”

By Leigh Stein | April 19, 2024

Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

“At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.”

By Paul Yamazaki | April 19, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Salman Rushdie, Caoilinn Hughes, Caleb Carr, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and More

By Book Marks | April 19, 2024

Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

“Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.”

By Julia Alvarez | April 19, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Levine is a gifted performance artist of literary fiction—part French existentialist and part comic bomb-thrower.”

By Book Marks | April 18, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

My “Friend” Keeps Sending Me Their Writing and I Need It To Stop: Am I the Literary Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | April 18, 2024

Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 18, 2024

Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

By Ethel Rohan | April 18, 2024

Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy's Mistakes

Margot Livesey on Thomas Hardy's Mistakes

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | April 17, 2024

The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s <em>Slaves of New York</em> and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

Elwin Cotman on His Frustration and Enchantment with a True 1980s Classic

By Elwin Cotman | April 16, 2024

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

How Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Forged a Literary and Romantic Bond

Michael Korda on the Creative and Sentimental Camaraderie Between Two Soldier Poets

By Michael Korda | April 16, 2024

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Naomi Kanakia Wonders Why Nobody Talks About the Thing We All Need

By Naomi Kanakia | April 16, 2024

The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

The Sound of C: On Giving a Voice to the Words of Others

Lissa Soep Chronicles the Process of Creating an Emotionally Authentic Audiobook

By Lissa Soep | April 16, 2024

The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to <em>The Juniper Tree</em>

The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree

Sarah McClung on the Author’s Lifelong Creative Development

By Sarah McClung | April 15, 2024

How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

Steve Almond Offers Some Strategies to Help Make Writer’s Block Work For You

By Steve Almond | April 15, 2024

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