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Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine's Day

Indie Booksellers Recommend 26 Books for Valentine's Day

The Art of the Hand-Sell: Love Stories

By Katie Yee | February 14, 2023

18 new books to borrow from your local library.

18 new books to borrow from your local library.

By Katie Yee | February 14, 2023

On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

On One of the Most Influential Essays of the 21st Century: Of Snark and Smarm

Stephen Marche Considers the Long Tail of Tom Scocca’s “On Smarm”

By Stephen Marche | February 14, 2023

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

In Praise of the Campus Novel: Daisy Alpert Florin on Fiction and Self-Discovery

“A campus is a cauldron, a swirling pot of people learning about themselves.”

By Daisy Alpert Florin | February 14, 2023

Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

Ana Reyes on How Psychology Drives Good Fiction

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 14, 2023

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

How Not to Lose Hope: Alternate Histories and the Real World

Paz Pardo on Living in a World of Continuing Calamities

By Paz Pardo | February 14, 2023

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Asale Angel-Ajani on the Push and Pull of Mother-Daughter Relationships

By Jane Ciabattari | February 14, 2023

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne | February 14, 2023

All Writing is Failure: Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

“Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

“Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

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

By I'm a Writer But | February 14, 2023

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 14, 2023

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Leigh Stein Wonders Why More Book People Don’t Embrace the Publishing Juggernaut

By Leigh Stein | February 13, 2023

Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

In Which Barthelme’s Story, “The Balloon,” Gets a Very Close Reading

By Ann Beattie | February 13, 2023

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read... and <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em>

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read... and Slaughterhouse-Five

Isabel Waidner Recommends Megan Milks, Jess Arndt, Kurt Vonnegut, and More

By Isabel Waidner | February 13, 2023

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

Bo McMillan on the Confluence of Black Modernity, Self-Determinism, and Belongingness of Harlem's Housing

By Bo McMillan | February 13, 2023

Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | February 13, 2023

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