At This Grand Hotel, A Little Library Holds Secrets: Critical Linking, February 15, 2019
Sponsored by Flatiron Books. On a late-summer visit to West Baden Springs — after a hilly horseback ride through the grounds and an uneven meal at a...
The Extraordinary Enigmatic: Kathryn Davis’s ‘The Silk Road’
Wormholes, portals, wizards, dachshunds, geological time, haute cuisine: these are a few of the things you will find in Kathryn Davis’s fiction. “My sensibility as an...
Candlepin Bowling with Elizabeth McCracken
“When I think about it, I was really raised by independent bookstores,” Elizabeth McCracken tells Ann Patchett in a new interview for Patchett’s bookstore, Parnassus Books....
Summer Scares First Annual Reading List Announced
In celebration of National Library Lover’s Day, the Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Library Journal/School Library Journal, is delighted to announce...
Cry Out with a Woman’s Voice: Love, Resistance, and the Erotic Verse of Syria’s National Poet
When my grandmother’s sister was killed, my grandmother inherited her sister’s identity. Born in Saidnaya, Syria, in 1926, my grandmother entered the world three years after...
What to Read When You’re Infatuated
Books to keep on your nightstand when your crush is so bad you can’t sleep I n the first flush of infatuation, reading feels like an impossibility....
Maryse Meijer Thinks You Should Track Down These Books by Women
Five out-of-print titles to look out for, from the author of “Rag” Maryse Meijer by Lewis McVey Wandering into a used bookstore with no particular agenda, just to...
Find Out Your Romance Novel Title With This Handy Chart
The story of your love, or at least your extremely heteronormative fantasy, awaits! By Erica Smith Unlucky in extremely straight love? Looking for a little nudge to guide...
Stranger in a Strange Land: Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’
Someone once said, “Life”—or was it history?—“is one damned thing after another.” Whichever it was, and whoever said it, Dave Eggers’s The Parade—or any parade, really—is...
4 Ways to Create (And Maintain) a Writing Habit
When I wrote my first book in 2013, I was newly married and working a full-time job. While writing, that dream of every writer’s heart whispered...
