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Knockout 2025 YA Debuts, Excellent Nonfiction, and More YA Book News: Let's wrap up 2025 with a look at the YA book news that's dropped in recent weeks, including several updates on forthcoming adaptations. https://bookriot.com...
6 Regency-Era Novels that Aren’t Romances: These Regency-era set novels look past the time's glitter to show the reality of social classes, capital punishment, and the Napoleonic Wars. https://bookriot.com...
The First Step in the Writing Process: Be Kind to Yourself: Often I am asked—as all writers are asked—what is my process. I think we all want… https://lithub.com/t... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History: The work: at first the work is difficult. Later, the… https://lithub.com/w... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations: Begun in the 1790s, Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813. Its context is… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features
How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education: Carlton Terry was twelve the year Prince Edward County schools… https://lithub.com/h... #Features #History
An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women: Women writers from 1830 to 1926 turned to the… https://lithub.com/a... #CraftandCriticism #Features
North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther: The letter he carries is dated March 1878 and brings the news that there is nothing to be done: the whaleship Dromo… https://lithub.com/n... #DailyFiction #Excerpts
Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective: This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down,… https://lithub.com/c... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Race Made Radioactive: How Yuko Tsushima Fused Multiracial Identity and Military Occupation: In the author’s note… https://lithub.com/r... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: It’s not all good. I mean, I adore being a clown, regardless of anyone else’s feelings about it. But there are times when it wears me down to a… https://lithub.com/s... #DailyFiction #Excerpts
On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York: New York is all about water. Reasonable people may disagree with… https://lithub.com/o... #Features #History
Must-Read Daredevil Comics If You’re Watching Daredevil: Born Again: Are you watching the new Daredevil: Born Again series on Disney+? While you’re waiting between episodes,… https://bookriot.com...
America’s Declining Literacy Rates and the (Alleged) End of Reading: Plus, Roxane Gay and Saeed Jones in conversation, Jeff interviews Scaachi Koul, and the Plutarch Award… https://bookriot.com...
Banned Historical Fiction Books: The goal of censorship is to control what people think by controlling what they can read and learn. Book bans target and affect the most at-risk members of society. That's… https://bookriot.com...
A Small Press Book We Love: Children of the Ghetto by Elias Khoury: Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to… https://lithub.com/a... #LiteraryCriticism #NewsandCulture
Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World: Why set a novel on a train? The… https://lithub.com/l... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
8 Science Fiction Novels by Authors of Color for the End Times: Are these the end times? Who knows! Settle into this current quasi-dystopian reality with recent… https://bookriot.com... #ScienceFiction #DystopianFiction
7 Comics About Trauma: When I first told people I was working on a comic about trauma, I sometimes got funny looks. I can’t be certain, but I think the correct translation of this type of… https://electriclite... #Comics #Trauma
The London bookstore just named the most popular in the entire world: The most popular bookstore in the world, an aspirational lifetime reading plan, and more of the… https://bookriot.com...
Trump is trying to destroy libraries.: Image from the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections The hogmen and shock troops of the Trump-Musk administration… https://lithub.com/t... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
Backlist’s Back, Alright! 5 Great Older SFF Books To Revisit: What older SFF book do you want to read again soon? https://bookriot.com... #BacklistBooks #SciFi
Trump’s Latest Attacks on Publishing, Libraries, and Schools: We’re less than two months into Trump’s second presidency, and the negative impact he and Elon Musk have… https://bookriot.com... #Trump #Publishing
How Interviewing Celebrities Helped Me Write My Debut Novel: There is typically (hopefully!) a moment during a celebrity magazine interview when… https://lithub.com/h... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
“Never Boring, Never Easy.” How the Writing Life Goes on Amid the Chaos of Publishing: How lucky, I thought, that spring… https://lithub.com/n... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
Kristen Arnett! Amy Shearn! Emma Donoghue! 25 new books out today.: March has already been a month of manias and mind-boggling political… https://lithub.com/k... #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism
How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul: "It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of… https://www.themargi...
Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.: After a thorough excoriating by Democrats who are… https://lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries