The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. It is from Story Club with George Saunders, a Substack publication and literary community where Saunders offers weekly discussions of the craft of the short story. Both free and paid subscriptions are available here. * A few years ago, in my MFA writers’ […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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Not to brag, but Lit Hub is a pretty good website. We’re closing in on our ten-year anniversary—the digital publishing equivalent of roughly a century—and we’ve published consistently since the day we launched, resulting in an archive of thousands of articles. On top of that, Lit Hub has decent... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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This month’s column is my twelfth for Lit Hub, which means I’ve been sharing new children’s book releases with you for a full year now. And 2024 has been a wonderful year for young readers! As I’ve reviewed each month’s new releases, I’ve found some of my own favorite new books, and I hope I’ve […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-12-02 09:56:42 UTC ]
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“My personality is more indebted to The Simpsons than any other book or movie or album or show or art thing.” Meet the 2024 National Book Award finalists while they answer some of our quick questions. | Lit Hub In Conversation Mirza Waheed explains why he’s boycotting a screening of a film... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-13 11:30:55 UTC ]
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Late in 1933, Dylan Thomas started writing a new short story. “The theme of the story I dreamed in a nightmare,” he wrote to a friend. “If successful, if the words fit to the thoughts, it will be one of the most ghastly short stories ever written.” Thomas was possessed, in part, by rejection.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-10-31 08:56:14 UTC ]
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Cherie Dimaline Wins NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature News and Events [email protected] Tue, 10/22/2024 - 17:01 World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2024-10-22 22:01:04 UTC ]
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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, and Richard Powers’ Playground all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 14 Rave • 7... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-27 08:59:28 UTC ]
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Fall is the season of Big Books: the mega-hyped, the much-recommended, and the written-by-celebrities. And despite the fact that we’re in a (god-forsaken) election year, the literary cup, as usual, runneth over. So how’s a discerning gal or guy to choose which Big Book to read (first)? Just like... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-23 08:56:27 UTC ]
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Picture a teenager in a suburban Southern California Costco, lingering by the books tables while her parents shopped. There, between the boxed vacuums and party-size clamshells of croissants, I first encountered the writing of Ha Jin. His short story, “After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town,” had... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-10 08:55:26 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry from Poets.org’s “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Dunya Mikhail. Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024).... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-09 08:55:06 UTC ]
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The founder and publisher of Black Classics Press and BCP Digital Printing will be presented with the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at this year's National Book Awards ceremony. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon) 6 Rave • 8 Positive “Glides... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:43 UTC ]
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Evan Friss’ The Bookshop, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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After publishing my first novel Catalina I spiraled into strange despair. Writing, for me, had always been about connection, yet I felt both disconnected from what I’d written and by how it was being received. Had I written a noir? I hadn’t set out to. Was my protagonist unlikeable? I liked... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-19 08:56:33 UTC ]
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Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “Although I have not inherited a physical plot, I’ve inherited dual impulses related to how I define home.” Sadiya Ansari on family, place and inheritance in South Asia and North America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Navid Sinaki on Scheherazade, secrets, and finding his voice as a young, queer Iranian immigrant. | Lit Hub Memoir “What do we inherit from trauma? Complicated stories, frayed genetics, and many, many hidden secrets.” Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and more take the Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter, Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-31 12:18:55 UTC ]
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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 story form.” Ted Chiang has published two... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Daniel Handler’s And Then? and Then? What Else?, and Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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A tribute to Paul Auster, featuring Siri Hustvedt, Don DeLillo, JM Coetzee, and more. | Lit Hub “I’ve had to forgive myself for what I chose not to see. For choosing myself.” Nina St. Pierre on understanding and accepting a schizophrenic mother. | Lit Hub Memoir James Shapiro on Willa Cather and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-28 10:30:47 UTC ]
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In The Art of Subtext, Charles Baxter writes, “A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and the unseen.” In 2017, I sold... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-17 08:55:10 UTC ]
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