hHow do you feel about exclamation marks? Otherwise known as gasps, howlers, dog cocks, or screams. In his Modern English usage, Fowler said that too much usage betrays an “uneducated or unpracticed writer”. Martin Amis called them “joke badges”, and Theodor Adorno called them “soundless cymbal-crashing”. Novelist Elmore Leonard specified that you’re only allowed two
Children’s book fans, I have a quick challenge for you: Close your eyes, clear your mind, and imagine an illustration from a picture book you loved as a child. (Please open your eyes again, so you can read the rest of this column.) Ok. How’d it go? Do you remember the colors of your illustration
Featured books by Cal Flynn, Eyal Weitzman, Michael Cunningham and others From the world’s wildest places to the origins of American fascism to memoirs of grief and recovery, July’s nonfiction has something for everyone. * savage landscapeCal Flynn flynn’s 2021 book, island of abandonmentThere was an amazing, compelling exploration of the planet’s abandoned places, previously
have you heard? A24 is taking over Hollywood. Possibly the world. The indie company that initially promoted itself as a charming underdog has become a pillar/last bastion of extra-Marvel movies. Not so disgusting anymore, a gang of cinephiles are probably after you latest favorite taking name and make deals. Behind Production and Distribution Company Marty
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers For fiction, generously provided, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores across the country American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. Article continues after ad * 1. disaster club By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)2. john’s john by Douglas Stuart
Hello friends! Welcome to another great installment of Am I a literary ass?An alcoholic advice column who is very happy to be here. I’m your host, Kristen Arnett, and I’m proud to announce that it’s officially Miller Time. That’s right, I’m about to go my entire way through a twelve pack of beer. Would you
The best of literary internet Today: Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977. Why we should revisit Frederick Douglass’s speech this July 4th is not clear. | Lit Hub History These 10 best books for children coming out in July include new works from Jacques Jource, Celeste Pewter, Sumiah Beck, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Frederick Douglass’s great speech “What’s the Fourth of July for a slave?” The speech, delivered before a predominantly white audience at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852, reflected the contrasts that remain in the nation’s Fourth of July celebrations, then and to this day. The nation’s founding documents may have declared that “all men
“Not many people these days appreciate that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very different thing to what we have now. There are almost no similarities. Apart from questions of legality, health and safety, etc., there would be no point in revisiting the vast majority
The Windham-Campbell Awards Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Award The winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Article continues after ad Christina Anderson, recipient of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Award for Drama, talks to Michael Kelleher about Wallace Shawn’s seminal, strange, and recently revived 1990 monologue