What Working at a Used Bookstore Taught Me About Literary Rejection

What Working at a Used Bookstore Taught Me About Literary Rejection

“Try this. If you don’t like it, I’ve got more.”

By Carl Lavigne | August 24, 2022

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

Or, We're All Still Locked Away in Edward Rochester’s Attic...

By Gwendolyn Kiste | August 24, 2022

Melissa Chadburn on Her Relationship Between Sobriety and Creativity

Melissa Chadburn on Her Relationship Between Sobriety and Creativity

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 24, 2022

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

Can a Critic of “Wokeness” Really Be Genuinely Liberal or Progressive?

William Deresiewicz in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

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

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

This Week from Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

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

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Dan Bouk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

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  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
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Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the 20th-Century World

By Keen On | August 24, 2022

Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

By NewberyTart | August 24, 2022

What Makes a Book Actually Scary?

By Literary Disco | August 23, 2022

20 new books to bite into this week.

20 new books to bite into this week.

By Katie Yee | August 23, 2022

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

Lauren Acampora on the Public Consumption of Art, and How Not To Let It Consume You

By Lauren Acampora | 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

Whose Lives Can We Plunder? Or: How to Base a Character on Yourself

Whose Lives Can We Plunder? Or: How to Base a Character on Yourself

Jincy Willett on Writing From Life Without Betraying Anyone

By Jincy Willett | August 23, 2022

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