From the Pulitzer and Booker to the Walter Scott Prize and more, these award-winning historical fiction books are the best in the genre! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-24 10:36:00 UTC ]
DeBin previously served as deputy director of Portland's Literary Arts, as well as a national account manager at Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Young Readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
From classics to modern marvels to young adult adventures, here are the bestselling science fiction books of all time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-08 10:31:00 UTC ]
These new science fiction and fantasy books out August 2023, including More Perfect by Temi Oh, deal with everything from ghosts to aliens to war machines. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-03 10:33:00 UTC ]
The string of weeks in which unit sales of print books were down in all major categories reached three last week, leading to a 5.4% sales decline from the comparable week in 2022. Sales of adult fiction fell 7.2%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Despite winning awards, these little-known beautiful and thought-provoking literary fiction books, like Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok, remain criminally underrated. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-08-01 10:34:00 UTC ]
August's new nonfiction books include a memoir exploring the model minority myth, a historical look at Middle Eastern horsewomen, and more, including Mexikid by Pedro Martín. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-31 10:34:00 UTC ]
Colson Whitehead’s Crook Manifesto, Patrick deWitt’s The Librarianist, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Silver Nitrate all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * Fiction 1. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 09:07:50 UTC ]
These novels remind us of old-fashioned human connections that can’t be severed, for better or worse. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-07-28 09:01:35 UTC ]
Laura Cumming’s Thunderclap, Kate Zambreno’s The Light Room, and John McPhee’s Tabula Rasa all feature among the best reviewed nonfiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” * 1. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-28 09:00:49 UTC ]
For a decade while I was drafting it, my debut novel The Peach Seed had a different title, Peach Seed Monkey, which referred to a tiny monkey carved from a peach pit that had been a present to me and my sister when we were children. A book title has power to pique interest, crack […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-27 09:45:33 UTC ]
They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their workWhat do you call a phone when it rings in a fictional world? “Mobile” and “cell” are old, “smartphone” is almost a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-22 10:00:09 UTC ]
History and science fiction collide in these historical science fiction books like Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente, where the future is retro and retro is the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-20 10:34:00 UTC ]
Looking to diversify your reading list? Then this alphabet of SFF authors of color is a great place to start! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-19 10:37:00 UTC ]
Want to read more historical fiction set in Mexico? We've got you covered with these 20 absolute must-read books! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-07-11 10:31:00 UTC ]
It’s that spooky frisson that makes you, for a split second, want to throw your book across the room. Or chuckle. Or flail, blindly, for the familiar barrier between storyworld and readerworld—you know, your world. There’s nothing as electric as an experimental flourish executed well, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-06 08:52:45 UTC ]
The influencer and Slay in Your Lane co-author talks about her journey via Twitter to become a writer, and channelling her experience of social media into debut novel The List“Honestly, I’m a better painter than I am a writer,” says Yomi Adegoke, cackling, as she takes a sip of prosecco.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-01 08:00:07 UTC ]
With the rise of fan fiction publishing and TikTok, microgenres — genres that have defined and specific plots — have reached new heights. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-06-28 10:33:00 UTC ]
As a fiction writer, I’ve always felt compelled, memoir style, to pore over my life’s timeline. But in a novel, I can erase, revise, smash, crash, reconstruct, and transfigure that squiggly narrative. A novel has no obligation to mirror or represent anything familiar, recognizable, or real. And... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-28 08:52:54 UTC ]
Fictional Translations: Pablo Neruda’s “Oda al actor,” by Ilan Stavans Poetry [email protected] Mon, 06/26/2023 - 13:48 Photo by throgers / FlickrIn what follows, I have created three heteronyms to render Pablo Neruda’s “Oda al actor” into English.... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-06-26 18:48:50 UTC ]