Here’s What the Obamas are Reading Over the Holidays
This weekend, President Obama took his teenage daughters, Sasha and Malia, shopping at D.C. bookstore Upshur books. Together, they picked up books with the help of the store manager, Anna Thorn. The...
View ArticleMorrissey Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award with “Bulbous Salutation”
Heaven knows he’s miserable now. Morrissey, the favorite for the 23d Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award, went all the way to the top, winning for his debut novel, List of the Lost. Morrissey...
View ArticleDonald Trump as the Next U.S. Poet Laureate?
Donald Trump has a reputation for confusing and bewildering speeches. Humorist Hart Seely argues that this is what makes Trump so fascinating. And, apparently, what makes him a poet. Seely has dug...
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Margaret Atwood Is Writing a Superhero Comic Book
Margaret Atwood, a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature, is tackling a new genre: comic books. Atwood will be penning a new comic series for Dark Horse Comics...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Says Trump Is Worse Than Voldemort
.@jk_rowling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named! #Voldetrump pic.twitter.com/NjFYBITwP1 — Decider (@decider) December 8, 2015 J.K. Rowling took to Twitter on December 8 to defend her character, Lord Voldemort,...
View ArticleMetamorphosis Is the Most Permanent Characteristic of Life: An Interview With...
“Lucilia Illustris” is featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading with an introduction from Jeff VanderMeer. Leena Krohn’s Collected Fiction is available from Cheeky Frawg Books. Julia...
View ArticleDaniel Clowes and Chris Ware among Comic Artists Protesting Sexism in...
The renowned Angoulême International Comics Festival has received major backlash after failing to nominate a single female creator for their Grand Prix lifetime achievement award. In a statement that...
View ArticleMen Dominate the Historical Books Genre, According to Slate Survey
Writers at Slate took it upon themselves to investigate gender disparity in the history genre, a project born out of their impression that “uncle books” make up most of the genre, and also that male...
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling Reveals She Graffitied Hotel When Writing Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling doesn’t exactly have a reputation for misbehaving, but on Monday she revealed on Twitter that even she has dabbled in vandalism. After finishing the final installment of the Harry Potter...
View ArticleBreaking Bad Writer Moira Walley-Beckett to Write New Anne Of Green Gables TV...
One of Canada’s most beloved book series, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, will be given new life on Canada’s CCTV. The story centers on Anne, who spent a rough early childhood in...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates, Maggie Nelson, and Lauren Groff among National Book Critics...
On Monday, the National Book Critics Circle announced the 30 nominees for their 2015 awards. Nominees are divided into six categories, autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and...
View ArticleFairy Tales Might Be Thousands of Years Older Than You Think
A new study shows that famous fairy tales like Beauty and The Beast and Rumpeltiltskin might be thousands of years older previously assumed. Dr. Jaime Tehrani from Durham University worked with...
View ArticleAmy Tan Has a Leech Named in Her Honor
Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York decided to name a species of leech after author Amy Tan, who mentions jungle leeches many times in her hilarious novel Saving Fish from...
View Article#1000BlackGirlBooks Drive Is Here to Counter Books About White Boys and Dogs
11-year-old Marley Dias from New Jersey has achieved a lot in her decade plus long life, from receiving a Disney Friends for Change Grant to volunteering at an orphanage in Ghana, and now she is...
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Classic Novels by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf Contain Mathematical...
Academics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Poland put over 100 famous novels through a detailed statistical analysis and found that an “overwhelming” number of the books had a fractal structure....
View ArticleThe Association of Small Bombs Sheds Light Where You Would Never Think to Look
With The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Mahajan succeeds in the difficult task of describing the immense, unbearable consequences of a terrorist act. The novel begins with a small bombing, it kills...
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