I was 13 years old in a suburban mall Barnes & Noble, holding a copy of Please Don’t Kill the Freshman by Zoe Trope. The cover—featuring the silhouette of a young cheerleader whose stance seems sarcastic, her pom-poms flopping against Read more >
In the midst of a deluge of book bans across the country, Penguin Random House has erected billboards featuring quotes from books by LGBTQ authors in six cities—New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Miami and Austin. Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Read more >
It must suck to be most days of the week. On most days of the week, new books do not come out. But TGIT: Thank goodness it’s Tuesday. * Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (Del Rey) “…she deftly Read more >
Over the weekend—via a tweet from artist Amber Blade Jones, because the garbage bird website has its bright spots—I discovered Not/But, a comic strip that speaks directly to my self-defeating writer soul. Not/But is a series created by illustrator and Read more >
A handwritten letter from J.R.R. Tolkien is currently up for auction, with bidding beginning at $5,000, if you’ve got that kind of cash lying around. The letter, which is dated April 12, 1956, is a response to a fan, and Read more >
Well, we still have some nice things—or rather, dogs do. While walking through my neighborhood in Missoula recently (a neighborhood that features seven Little Free Libraries for humans, it should be said), I stumbled across a very cute sight: some good Read more >
As I write this, it’s 90 degrees in Brooklyn. The dog is thoroughly passed out under the desk. (He thinks it offers him shade, even though we’re inside.) The fans are oscillating, and I’m dreaming of a nice, cool pool: Read more >
Today, the Whiting Foundation announced the winners of its 2022 Literary Magazine Prizes, which honor “the most innovative and essential publications at the forefront of American literary culture.” The five winners were chosen—from an initial pool of more than eighty Read more >
On July 13, 1930, some six thousand people crammed themselves into London’s Royal Albert Hall. They had come to hear a missive from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the spiritualist, physician, and creator of Sherlock Holmes—who had, as it happens, died Read more >
Joy Harjo’s poem “Remember” is unforgettable; an invitation (or maybe a command) to acknowledge the interconnectedness of all life, it’s one of Harjo’s best-known poems and also one of her earliest. Now, Harjo, who recently served as US poet laureate Read more >
In a fairly predictable but nevertheless deeply sad turn of events, an Iowa town is without a library after the incessant complaints (and actual book theft) of a group of shitty, fear-mongering, right-wing assholes. According to reporting from Iowa Starting Read more >
Witches in novels, and in real life, are having a moment. While last summer was defined by the nap dress and Cottagecore, this year’s end to Roe V. Wade makes “goth witch” the only reasonable aesthetic to embrace. After all, Read more >
You might assume that the world of rare-book dealing is a sedate one, full of peaceful easy feeling, but you’d be wrong. Dead wrong. For every honorable merchant of literary antiquities, there’s a desperado with lyin’ eyes trying to sell Read more >
Remember Jeremy Meeks, aka “Prison Bae”? Sure you do. The former Crip and current fashion model became a viral sensation back in 2014 when the Stockton Police Department posted his extremely handsome mugshot on Facebook. Within 24 hours Meeks’ photo Read more >
Ada Limón will be the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the United States, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. “Ada Limón is a poet who connects,” Hayden said in a statement. “Her accessible, engaging poems ground us Read more >
Okay, maybe I say this every Tuesday, but I really, really mean it today: we’ve got a good book bounty this week, folks. * K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want (One World) “Relationships between women—familial, beloved, strange, imagined—dominate queer Taiwanese American Read more >
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