7 Excellent Adventure Stories
This list of adventure stories is sponsored by A Trick of Light by Stan Lee, published by HMH Books & Media. From Stan Lee, the pop-culture legend...
88-Year-Old Grandmother Was World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief: Critical Linking, September 18, 2019
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Rebel by Marie Lu, with Fierce Reads. “In...
The Universe in a Sentence: On Aphorisms
“A fragment ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.” —Friedrich Schlegel,...
2019 National Book Awards Translated Literature Longlist Announced
The National Book Foundation announced the 2019 National Book Awards Translated Literature longlist. This prize, which represents a permanent fifth National Book Award category, was added last year...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 17th, 2019
Sponsored by our giveaway of the year’s best mysteries and thrillers so far! These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so...
Goodnight World-Building
There’s no plot to Goodnight Moon, no characterization, no conflict. Every word written by Margaret Wise Brown and every detail illustrated by Clement Hurd is designed...
How to Write a Book Proposal: A 19-Step Guide for Nonfiction Writers
As a literary agent at Trident Media Group, a plethora of nonfiction book ideas come across my desk. So many people think they have a book...
Indiana’s Opioid Crisis Seen Through the Eyes of a Teenager
Brian Allen Carr is a writer known for his highly surrealistic fiction. His debut novel, Sip, was an allegory about addiction. The majority of his earlier...
A Love Letter to the Girls Who Die First in Horror Films
In middle and high school, my best friend Heather and I would stay up until sunrise watching every slasher flick we could carry home from Blockbuster....
We Are Writing Against Our Own Erasure
On September 12, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards celebrated its 25th anniversary. The program was created by novelist Rona Jaffe to identify and support women writers...
