If you’ve been on the New York subway lately, you’ve probably seen this ad, imagining Satan leaving a zero-star review for Bible App: “Zero Stars. Would not recommend.” And if you’ve been on the New York subway with me lately, Read more >
Photo by Arturo Villarrubia Science fiction writer Ted Chiang has won the 2024 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. The award is given each year to a writer who has “demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short Read more >
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education and was attacked by a rabbit. In 1979, New York City Mayor Ed Koch was in his first term, and The Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” broke into the Top 40. Read more >
Say you’re no newb to the literary podcast. You’ve got Brad Listi’s “Other Ppl,” “Between the Covers,” and “The Maris Review,” sitting pride of place in your digital library. And—perhaps inspired by this very website—you’ve been tickling your cochlea lately Read more >
The Best American Series is a literary institution. But just in case you’re stumbling upon it for the first time: Each book in the annual series showcases of best short fiction and nonfiction in a given year, from short stories Read more >
Dear Readers, it is once again Tuesday, and that means, as ever, that there are new things to read and rejoice in. And today is no exception, for there are many, many exciting new books to consider. I’ve compiled twenty-six Read more >
Ursula Le Guin’s family and Literary Arts in Portland announced today that Le Guin’s old home will become soon become the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. That’s right, you might be able to write at the desk where Le Read more >
Everyone knows that there are five Bennet sisters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia. But what would happen if Jane Austen’s Longbourn estate were full of Marys, the Bennets’ most boring and tedious daughter, instead of just one? A Read more >
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American (SFWA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Nebula Awards, one of SFF’s most prestigious honors, “given to the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2023.” Here are Read more >
It’s been a confusing few days at the Philadelphia Free Library, with their entire Author Events programming staff resigning, before being abruptly fired, all of which set off a string of confusing announcements about future programs. The Author Events program Read more >
Do you find yourself in the querying spirit this spring? Or have you, perhaps, a burning question for a literary icon? If yes or yes, consider checking out the second annual auction hosted by Literary Agents of Change, a nonprofit Read more >
Image from richardscarry.com Today would have been Richard Scarry’s 105th birthday, and it got me thinking about Busytown, the world created by Scarry and explored in dozens of books. Scarry’s busy world is populated with animals doing the work of Read more >
Last week, Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy. The “nonprofit trade association” was founded by the author and editor Vivian L. Stephens in 1980, and had at its height close to 10,000 members. According to Publishers Weekly, RWA is Read more >
There are as many ways to mark your place in a book as there are opinions about it. The memes and the Dungeons and Dragons alignment charts are fun, but it’s time to get serious and once and for all Read more >
It’s the first Tuesday in June, which means that summer and Pride Month are here, and, to inaugurate both, there’s a bevy of books hot off the proverbial presses to check out. Below, you’ll find no less than twenty-six new Read more >
Image via Wikimedia and KPBS Online Kafkologists rejoice, a new movie about the final, romance-filled year of the writer’s life is headed for theaters across the world. The Glory of Life is a German-language film based on Michael Kumpfmüller’s novel Read more >
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