In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2024-02-12 10:00:46 UTC ]
“Murderland,” by the Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Fraser, considers possible links between the region’s industrial pollution and its most infamous murderers. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-06-08 09:00:21 UTC ]
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The e-commerce giant has been criticized over its stewardship of Goodreads since it bought the platform in 2013, fueling the rise of competitors. Amazon famously started as an online bookstore. In the three decades since, it has disrupted how people buy, read, and review books through steps... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2025-06-06 13:34:00 UTC ]
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In the memoir “How to Lose Your Mother,” Molly Jong-Fast recalls a tumultuous upbringing as the only child of the feminist writer Erica Jong. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-31 12:18:33 UTC ]
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In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-30 14:16:45 UTC ]
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Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-30 09:00:35 UTC ]
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The following story was chosen by Ottessa Moshfegh as the winner of the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize. The prize is awarded annually by Selected Shorts and a guest author judge. This story will be performed by an actor this spring. To hear more great short stories performed... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-05-28 11:10:00 UTC ]
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The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction for her short stories about the lives of Muslim women. She and her translator Deepa Bhasthi explain how Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’• ‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2025-05-23 12:00:30 UTC ]
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The National Book Award-winning author shows young readers a humane political philosophy that many adults still fail to appreciate. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-16 13:37:20 UTC ]
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Beyond disclosures about his sexuality and marriage, the media mogul’s memoir mostly serves up goodies for fans of Hollywood name-dropping and infighting. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-16 09:00:51 UTC ]
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Seven queer African creative works you should know about, from short stories to music videos. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2025-05-15 13:05:42 UTC ]
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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 to essays, science and nature writing, to food writing. Each... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-05-14 13:00:31 UTC ]
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My last Lit Hub conversation with Karen E. Bender was in 2018, just before her collection The New Order was published. She mentioned that she read John Cheever’s short stories in graduate school: “Cheever’s sentences just made my brain light up. He packs more into a paragraph—about love,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2025-05-13 08:58:28 UTC ]
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“Sleep,” the debut novel by Honor Jones, moves back and forth in time between a 35-year-old mother’s present and her disturbing, unresolved past. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-05-09 09:00:05 UTC ]
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In this interview, author Clea Young discusses the difference in inspiration between a novel and short stories with her new collection, Welcome to the Neighbourhood. The post Clea Young: Allow Yourself Fallow Periods To Recharge appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading at Writer's Digest
[ Writer's Digest | 2025-05-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2025-05-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
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The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-04-29 09:01:51 UTC ]
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In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-04-27 09:01:23 UTC ]
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In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Safekeep,” Yael van der Wouden’s novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2025-04-25 14:00:04 UTC ]
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