If you’ve ever loved a book so much that you wanted to eat it, or driven your loved ones crazy with puns, The Edible Book Festival might be for you. The festival started in 2000 and has expanded into many, Read more >
April, remarkably, is here already—remarkable only, I suppose, because my internal calendar is still stuck on January all too often—and that means that warmer weather and wonderful blooms are also here, both of which I love. (And a solar eclipse Read more >
Did you see the movie Theater Camp (2023) and find yourself involved in high-octane debates about its “realism,” especially as compared to Camp (2003) or Fame (1980)? Have you ever spent a sleepover binge-watching Slings and Arrows, the Canadian televisual Read more >
Depending on which corners of literary social media you frequent, yesterday’s breaking news that SPD (Small Press Distribution) was going under was either an enormous surprise or a predictable tragedy, but the suddenness of the news was a shock to Read more >
As of this morning, Harvard’s Houghton Library has removed a book bound with human skin from its collection. Or rather, the skin has been removed from the book. This is in accordance with the findings of a committee appointed to examine Read more >
You might have seen the Tweet going around earlier this week promising to distill Charles Bukowski’s work into “opportunities to upgrade your mind.” To quote from the viral thread by a “badass creator with over a billion views”: “Charles Bukowski’s Read more >
Writer and translator Nada Hammad originally published the following piece in We Are Not Numbers, a Palestinian youth-led storytelling project based in the Gaza Strip, in 2016. Her testimony from Gaza is a snapshot of the ways her community has Read more >
Image of Verb List from MoMA.org The artist Richard Serra died yesterday at 85. His sculptures combined the monumental with the intimate, pieces that overwhelm and envelop but are often the only ones in the museum you can touch. His New Read more >
Image: Tom Verlaine of Television on stage in London, April 1978. Credit: Gus Stewart/Redferns Tom Verlaine—visionary Television frontman, saint you should know—died in January of 2023. But some fans are still sifting through his legacy. In the figurative sense, of Read more >
Paul Yoon has won the 20th annual Story Prize for his collection The Hive and the Honey, after being named to a list of three finalists in January. The judges—Merve Emre, Allison Escoto, and Tania James—had this to say about the Read more >
In a “whistle-blowing” press release, the staff union at PEN America—PEN America United (PAU)—has accused the free expression organization of attempting to “chill the free expression of its own workers” by proposing language that would see PAU members disciplined for Read more >
Today, the Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its 89th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which seek to recognize books that “have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures.” “It Read more >
These days you can’t swing a paperback—though, why would you swing a paperback—without hitting a new celebrity book club. First came Oprah, then Reese, then followed a whole succession of willowy blondes with apparent downtime and (judging from Insta) poolside Read more >
New York City is losing one of its most unique literary spaces: the Joseph Koch Comic Warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. For over 25 years, Koch (no, he’s not one of those Kochs) has run a brisk mail and web ordering Read more >
Boxes of Chronologically Organized National Geographics You’re a completionist who has a hard time hitting the “skip intro” button on a TV show. You only read novels in translation and are infamous in your friend group for dragging people to Read more >
The end of March is almost upon us, which, at least to me, feels a little crazy, as if the wheel of the year is spinning faster than ever. But if you, like me, want to slow time down for Read more >
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