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9 Novels of Art and Seduction

9 Novels of Art and Seduction

Lauren Acampora on Books Filled with Infatuation and Obsession

By Lauren Acampora | October 6, 2022

WATCH: Polina Barskova on How We Cope with Experiences That Defy Comprehension

WATCH: Polina Barskova on How We Cope with Experiences That Defy Comprehension

In Conversation with Catherine Ciepiela and Masha Gessen at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 6, 2022

Blood on the Glass Ceiling: Ambitious Women in Literature

Blood on the Glass Ceiling: Ambitious Women in Literature

Stephanie Feldman Recommends Novels That Find Joy in Triumph and Destruction

By Stephanie Feldman | October 6, 2022

Cleyvis Natera on Capturing a Community and Family in Crisis

Cleyvis Natera on Capturing a Community and Family in Crisis

In Conversation with M.M. Kaufman on the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | October 6, 2022

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World

“The poet is nothing if he does not ceaselessly apply myth to the world around him.”

By Elias Canetti | October 5, 2022

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Sex and the 16th Century: How John Donne Learned To Write Love Poetry

Katherine Rundell on Love and Literature in the Elizabethan Era

By Katherine Rundell | October 5, 2022

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Samantha Hunt on What It Means to Believe in Ghosts

By Thresholds | October 5, 2022

From Ovid to Hawthorne, on the Power and Possibility of Retelling Classic Stories

By Laurie Lico Albanese | October 5, 2022

The Heart of Genre: Regina Kanyu Wang, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Sheree Renée Thomas on Curating Anthologies

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | October 5, 2022

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

How Growing Up in the “Dysfunctional, Small Southern Town” of Washington D.C. Informed A.M. Homes’s New Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 5, 2022

15 new books to get jazzed about this week.

15 new books to get jazzed about this week.

By Katie Yee | October 4, 2022

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition... Her Own

On the Books We Can Part With, and Those We Can’t

By Elizabeth McCracken | October 4, 2022

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on How a “Magical” Dream Turned Into a Book Project

The Authors of Mad Honey Take the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub | October 4, 2022

Sidelined No More: A Reading List of Fiercely Political Women

Sidelined No More: A Reading List of Fiercely Political Women

Eve Fairbanks Recommends Barbara Tuchman, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ariel Levy, and More

By Eve Fairbanks | October 4, 2022

Luke Geddes on Writing with a Sense of Humor

Luke Geddes on Writing with a Sense of Humor

In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | October 4, 2022

October’s 8 Best </br>SF and Fantasy Books

October’s 8 Best
SF and Fantasy Books

Cozy Up With New Releases by Mur Lafferty, H.A. Clarke, Alan Moore, and, Well, More

By Book Marks | October 3, 2022

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