Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Actor, author, and film director Lake Bell joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to learn more about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-05 09:53:28 UTC ]
These sturdy time machines have two things in common: They’re built to last and they’re constructed by pros. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-04 12:20:13 UTC ]
There’s something for everyone in this season’s bumper crop of novels set in other times and places. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-12-02 14:45:08 UTC ]
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road in 2006, shows him at the peak of his powers even as he nears his ninetieth year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-11-24 13:19:55 UTC ]
Lester will step down as executive director of the Center for Fiction on January 1, and an interim director will be appointed until a permanent replacement can be found. Lester joined the Center in March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-16 05:00:00 UTC ]
The 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber for her debut YA novel The House of Rust. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-11-10 19:36:19 UTC ]
Megachurch pastor and bestselling author David Jeremiah takes #1 on PW’s Religion Nonfiction Bestsellers List with his newest title, ‘The World of the End.’ In Religion Fiction, Amir Tsarfati tops with ‘By Way of Deception,’ based on real events inspired by Israel's national intelligence agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-11-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
We've rounded up the 15 best fiction books published this year to gift any lover of novels or story collections in your life this holiday season. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-11-02 16:00:00 UTC ]
Read your way into the best Japanese historical fiction, ranging from novels to manga and historical fiction about Japanese Americans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-10-28 10:35:00 UTC ]
On May 13, I finally got to read my wayward science fiction story “It Is the Voice That Unnerves Me” in The Dread Machine. I had been submitting the story since the spring of 2019, and had thought many times about consigning it to the “retired” list. I knew every word, sentence and section break... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-10-20 11:05:00 UTC ]
Several faith-based novels set during Christmastime are publishing between now and November this year, just in time for the holidays. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are as many definitions of “feminism” and “science fiction” as there are people who identify as feminists and science fiction enthusiasts—in fact, that is part of what makes both of these communities attractive to many people. However, by 1981,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-11 08:53:20 UTC ]
A longtime librarian discovers that a healthy love of fiction is actually, well, healthy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
The story within a story. It’s a common enough trope—from The Arabian Nights to Hamlet to the postmodern canon, we’re familiar with books that nest realities inside one another. Moving from the main narrative to the nested narrative can reveal interesting echoes, parallels, and reflections, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-03 08:54:13 UTC ]
At its best, the relationship between novelist and reader is an intimate one. Can I tell you something? whispers the writer, and the reader whispers back, Please do… Of all the forms that the novel can take, the diary is surely the most confiding of all; it’s as if the intimacy level has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-28 08:57:35 UTC ]
With marketing ploys that are just transaction schemes extended into a digital space, marketers are falling behind the innovation pack. Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2022-09-22 09:30:00 UTC ]
Megan Giddings, Emily Lloyd Jones, Sangu Mandanna and Desideria Mesa add new twists to a popular subgenre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-09-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the 10 books on the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. The judges for this year’s award are Ben Fountain (Chair), Brandon Hobson, Pam Houston, Dana Johnson, and Michelle Malonzo. The 10 longlistees were chosen from a total of 463... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-16 14:15:50 UTC ]
Held in person for the first time since 2019, the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) 2022 conference brought over 300 authors, agents, publishers, and aspiring novelists together in St. Louis, Mo. from September 8-11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
If you loved these popular novels, try picking up a nonfiction book that pairs perfectly with it, like The Martian and Packing for Mars. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-08 10:38:00 UTC ]