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Maryland Passes Freedom to Read ActFrom Book Riot: Late last week, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed the Freedom to Read Act into law. The legislation is a massive step toward...
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Muse of FireFrom The Wall Street Journal: World War I has passed out of living memory, but its carnage remains seared in our minds. For the writer...
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Or Maybe It Just Wasn’t GoodFrom Colin Dodds: The other day, I tried to fob off the critical and commercial failure of my book What Smiled at Him on a marketing...
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I refuse to attend Support GroupMe: “I refuse to attend Support Group.” Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.” Me: “Please just let me watch...
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The Older Wiser Writer: The Virtues of a Looong Path to PublicationFrom Women Writers,Women’s Books: Who remembers 2012? Major news that year: the shooting death of a Black teenager named Trayvon...
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Character Type & Trope Thesaurus: Nice Guy/GirlFrom Writers Helping Writers: DESCRIPTION : Nice guys and girls are decent, kind, morally upright, and are generally liked by everyone....
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A Middle School Book Club Makes Good Trouble, on a National ScaleFrom Publishers Weekly: Good Books Young Troublemakers, a book club for middle graders that highlights potentially controversial content,...
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Own only what you can carry with youOwn only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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Writers: Do You Know Your Audience?From Writers in the Storm: I thought I had a pretty good idea who my readers are, but I was surprised to learn I have some fans I never...
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On Elias Canetti’s Book Against DeathFrom The Paris Review: Quixotic is a word that comes to mind when thinking of Elias Canetti, not just because Cervantes’s novel was...
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A Body Made of GlassFrom The Wall Street Journal: The first time it happened, Caroline Crampton was on a bus. Rain lashed the windows as the breath of weary...
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Authors Guild Supports FTC’s Proposed Ban on Non-Compete ClausesFrom The Authors Guild: On April 19, the Authors Guild submitted comments in support of a new rule proposed by the Federal Trade Commission...
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One of us had loved the other more perfectlyHe went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people who have loved each other however...
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A Secret Letter to the KGB Turned A Lost Family History Into a NovelFrom Electric Lit: Journalist Sasha Vasilyuk’s debut novel Your Presence Is Mandatory is a poignant look at the reverberating effects of...
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The Grip of GenreFrom Substack: Not everyone goes to a book looking for surprise. This was a surprise that was waiting for me. A few years ago, I was out...
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Book Ads on French TV? Publishers Differ With GovernmentFrom Publishing Perspectives: In France, publishers don’t want to advertise on television, even if doing so has become acceptable. To...
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In Praise of Episodic EnthusiasmFrom Writer Unboxed: Greek on the Rosetta Stone. By 1814 he had completely translated the inscription. You read that right: he decided...
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The VortexFrom The Economist: T he book is on the minds and lips of presidents. Recently Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s leader, praised “La Vorágine” (“...
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Gid and Man on My iPhoneFrom The Wall Street Journal: I was finishing a text message when I accidentally typed “Gid bless you.” Rather than fix the typo by inserting...
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Science is a way of thinkingScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Carl Sagan
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HarperCollins confirms redactions to UK edition of Rebel Wilson memoirFrom The Bookseller: The UK edition of Rebel Wilson’s forthcoming memoir, Rebel Rising (HarperCollins), will be published with passages...
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Entangled Publishing Soars into the EmpyreanFrom Publishers Weekly: It’s been quite a run for indie press Entangled Publishing. The first two books in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean series,...
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50 Euphemism Examples + Why You Should Use ItFrom Making a Living Writing: In the realm of language and literature, euphemism serves as a linguistic tool that softens the impact of...
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How to protect an endangered languageFrom The Economist: Of the world’s 7,000-odd languages, almost half are expected to disappear by the end of the 21st century. Two culprits...
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No one buys booksFrom Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent...
