Earlier this morning Lit Hub published a very personal essay by Jumi Bello about her experience writing a debut novel, her struggles with severe mental illness, the self-imposed pressures a young writer can feel to publish, and her own acts Read more >
It’s been nine months since the Taliban reclaimed power in Afghanistan, filling a vacuum left by the hastily departing American occupying forces—things have not gone well. Among other draconian measures, the Taliban government has moved aggressively to limit educational opportunities Read more >
Once in a while, you come across a short story that just puts a spell on you. You reach the end of it, and you find yourself a little changed, and you want to turn back to the beginning and Read more >
A worthy cause for you this Thursday: a bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a federal holiday (and the first federal holiday named for an American woman) is at nearly 8,000 signatures, and you can add your name Read more >
Polity Books has announced that it will publish Serhii Rudenko’s biography of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the first major biography of the leader to appear in English, this summer. Zelensky: A Biography will be published in the UK on July 1 Read more >
At the end of 2020, we received a snippet of good news: A24 was planning an adaption of Ocean Vuong’s critically acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. We’ve gone several months without any update (which makes sense; I assume Read more >
Notorious antisemitic Nazi-collaborator Louis-Ferdinand Celine, who died in 1961, long believed that several of his novel-length manuscripts had been burned by the French resistance—but that was not the case. Somehow, a collection of his papers ended up in the hands Read more >
I love paperbacks. They’re more affordable and lighter than their hardcover elder siblings, and you don’t have to deal with the flaps of a book jacket (don’t @ me). Sometimes they come with a cute little cover re-design. In case Read more >
A Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked last night in which Justice Samuel Alito lays out the court’s pending decision to overturn Roe v. Wade; should this ruling come to pass it would represent one of the largest roll-backs of Read more >
A new month means new books! May I recommend some to you today? From celebrity memoirs to reissued classics, from stellar short stories to sparkling debuts—this week’s book bounty brings a little something for everyone. * Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised Read more >
A couple of years ago, I was back home in Brooklyn between college semesters and reading Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy for my experimental fiction class (yes, yes, eye roll away). I had just been lamenting to a friend that, Read more >
In the exactly 170 years since the first edition of Roget’s thesaurus was published, thesauruses have been a great gift to writers the world over, from frantic high school students trying to subtly change someone else’s words so as not Read more >
A very happy Friday to us all: Apple TV+ has renewed Pachinko for a second season, just before the season 1 finale streams this Friday. (Could this be because we’ll have so many feelings about that finale? Maybe!) Showrunner Soo Read more >
Friends, forgive my earnestness, but tomorrow is a beautiful day. It is Independent Bookstore Day: the one day a year set aside specifically for celebrating indie bookstores and the vital work they do for our communities. Where would we be Read more >
I encounter all things NFT with huge amounts of skepticism. And while I concede the idea behind cryptocurrency is good—any alternative to the deeply entrenched legacy of western capitalist financialization, and the kinds of old power it perpetuates, is worth Read more >
The maestro of the motion capture suit Andy Serkis (aka Gollum aka King Kong aka Caesar the aggrieved chimp aka Supreme Leader Snoke aka Baloo the singing bear) is having quite the year. After directing the superhero flick Venom: Let Read more >
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