Today’s Special Book Deal $2.99 monsoon is increasing By Thea Guanzon GET THIS DEAL $1.99 silver sparrow By Tayari Jones GET THIS DEAL $2.99 mighty red by Louise Erdrich GET THIS DEAL $2.99 Maid By Stephanie Land GET THIS DEAL $1.99 Who is Maud Dixon? by alexandra andrews GET THIS DEAL $2.99 cujo by stephen
The best of literary internet today: in 1966, Delmore Schwartz dies. Lisa Owens explores the “taboo” ways in which women writers balance creativity with family. | Lit Hub Craft How Jane Austen destroyed the romance she had mastered by writing it emma. | lit hub biography How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary Internet,
from the collection Ax in Blossom: Final Poems and Fragments So, I thought,as soon as the door was openedAnd the landlord disappeared (no,he really disappeared)and i have to checkRoom invisible.there it stoodIn its gray corner-narrow bed sheetsThe color of old aspirin.maybe all this had happenedsomewhere inside mealready,Or was just about to happen.Is there any difference
It stars Rachel Aviv, Daniel Mason, David Thompson and others Rachel Aviv’s You will not be free from thisDaniel Mason’s people of the countryand david thompson sudden flicker of light All of these are among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by book marksLit Hub’s home for book reviews. * Imagination
As we look back at 2026 so far, much of the year has been incredibly scary. And when the real world becomes a scary place, many of us become fearful. This may sound strange to people who don’t understand it, but how else can you explain how good 2026 has been so far for horror
In his classic memoir of the Soviet state terror of the 1930s, hope against hopeNadezhda Mandelstam recalled the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they fled from town to village, relying on help from a few brave friends and strangers, exiled from their Moscow home as enemies of the state.
Library friends, welcome back. I’m the first to get the massive update. These include the deadly shooting at a California library, censorship updates, and the long battle to fund IMLS. But there is other news here too. there is an upcoming dungeon crawler carl The series adaptation, as well as an AI controversy related to
This first appeared in Lit Hub art of writing Newsletter—Sign up here. Article continues after ad A typical song begins with a short introduction that establishes the setting, moves into a verse that moves the narrative forward, moves through a bridge or B-section that complicates matters, and arrives at a chorus that provides emotional release.
At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets ever published. He wrote dozens of collections, and many highly quotable bangers that a reader would be as likely to see on a family bookshelf as the SAT. With champions like Oprah and Maria Shriver,
Today’s Special Book Deal $2.99 A guardian and a thief By Megha Majumdar GET THIS DEAL $2.99 honey and spice by bolu babalola GET THIS DEAL $4.99 missed connection by tia williams GET THIS DEAL $2.99 There is no antiemetics division by QNTM GET THIS DEAL $1.99 My friend By Hisham Matar GET THIS DEAL