5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Hollywood Moms, Seventh-Century Monks, Cuban Revolutionaries, and More

By Book Marks | August 25, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at <em>Denial</em>: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

Part Four in the Series “13 Ways of Looking”

By Jon Raymond | August 25, 2022

Megan Giddings: Why the World Still Needs Magic in Literature

Megan Giddings: Why the World Still Needs Magic in Literature

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 25, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nina Mingya Powles is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Nina Mingya Powles is Reading Now and Next

A New (at Lit Hub) Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | August 25, 2022

WATCH: Sidik Fofana on Gentrification and Teaching in Public Schools

WATCH: Sidik Fofana on Gentrification and Teaching in Public Schools

The Author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs in Conversation with Chantal V. Johnson at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 25, 2022

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

“Sometimes we trip into our past as we endure the present, but freedom is always now.”

By Aja Monet | August 24, 2022

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  • The Pelican Child: Stories
  • Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
  • The Ferryman and His Wife
  • Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult
  • Mexico: A 500-Year History

What Working at a Used Bookstore Taught Me About Literary Rejection

By Carl Lavigne | August 24, 2022

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

By Gwendolyn Kiste | August 24, 2022

Foz Meadows and Alexandra Rowland on Falling in Love with the Romance Genre

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | August 24, 2022

20 new books to bite into this week.

20 new books to bite into this week.

By Katie Yee | August 23, 2022

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

The Author of This Story Will Change in Conversation at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 23, 2022

Reading Proust in a Black and White World

Reading Proust in a Black and White World

On María Alvarez’s New Documentary, Le Temps Perdu

By Catherine Nichols | August 23, 2022

Forget Politics: Why a Novelist’s First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

Forget Politics: Why a Novelist’s First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

Jean Hanff Korelitz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 23, 2022

Shane Kowalski on Creating the Comedic Pivots in His Work

Shane Kowalski on Creating the Comedic Pivots in His Work

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

By I'm a Writer But | August 23, 2022

Emotional Expression Is as Scary and Important as You Think It Is

Emotional Expression Is as Scary and Important as You Think It Is

Erica Jong and Lilly Dancyger Guest on the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | August 23, 2022

Tom Scharpling on Legacy, Being Forgotten, and His Latest Paperback Release

Tom Scharpling on Legacy, Being Forgotten, and His Latest Paperback Release

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | August 23, 2022

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