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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The narrator’s voice is an extraordinary hybrid of a boy’s plaintive innocence and a man’s wry reflection.”

By Book Marks | January 9, 2025

Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

Diversity Syndrome: On Publishing’s Relentless Pigeonholing of Black Writers

Naomi Day Examines What It’s Like to Be a Black Writer of Speculative Fiction

By Naomi Day | January 9, 2025

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Want to Write About This Jerk Who Ghosted Me: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 9, 2025

Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | January 9, 2025

What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

Eiren Caffall on the Importance of Preserving Human and Natural History in Times of Catastrophe and Collapse

By Eiren Caffall | January 8, 2025

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America's Criminal Justice System

Arrested for Driving While Black: The Effortless Racism of America's Criminal Justice System

Irvin Weathersby Jr. on Racist Cops, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the Traumatic Memory of Spending a Night in Chains

By Irvin Weathersby Jr. | January 8, 2025

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  • This Is Where the Serpent Lives
  • Lost Lambs
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  • The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
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  • Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

From the Wakefield Twins to Claudia Kishi: How We See and Don’t See Ourselves in What We Read

By Gloria L. Huang | January 8, 2025

It’s Not My Job to Understand Agents or the Marketplace. My Job is to Write.

By Kevin Maloney | January 8, 2025

Judith Shakespeare, Grinning Literary Ghost: Lauren Groff on the Nuances of A Room of One’s Own

By Lauren Groff | January 7, 2025

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025

291 Books We're Looking Forward to in the New Year

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2025

Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

Bylines and Big Edits: How a Career in Journalism Taught Elizabeth Harris the Techniques of Fiction

The Author of "How to Sleep at Night" on Revising, Writerly Advice, and Making People Very Mad

By Elizabeth Harris | January 7, 2025

Adam Ross on Chronicling a Reagan-Era New York City Childhood

Adam Ross on Chronicling a Reagan-Era New York City Childhood

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Playworld”

By Jane Ciabattari | January 7, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

Zora Neale Hurston! The real-life Hester Prynne! Y2K! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 7, 2025

Amitava Kumar and Claire Messud on Literary Friendship

Amitava Kumar and Claire Messud on Literary Friendship

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 6, 2025

Forrest Gander on the Poem as Novel

Forrest Gander on the Poem as Novel

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

By Memoir Nation | January 6, 2025

Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

Trees of Life and Knowledge: Jamaica Kincaid on Colonialism, Gardening, and Worshipping Her Plants

The Author of “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children” in Conversation with Sandra Guzmán

By Sandra Guzmán | January 3, 2025

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