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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fact-Checking Chicken Soup for the Soul Readers who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely […]
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1972, Betty Smith dies. “Remember that every bit of worldbuilding that makes it to the page adds to the set, and stage space is limited.” Erika Swyler on the art of worldbuilding. | Lit Hub Craft James H. Sweet chronicles the mystery of the Black […]
Everand—a company that offers a monthly subscription for access to ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, and more—just released their 2025 State of Reading Report. They gathered data on why we read, how and what we read, our beliefs about books, and the evolution of reading by interviewing 1,500 US consumers aged 18-64 who had paid for an […]
January 15, 2025, 12:50pm A special collection landed in the Hamptons this week, care of Tom Hanks—the world’s one true pleasure to have in class. As real ones know, Mr. Hanks has long nursed a fetish for typewriters. He spotlit the technology in his debut story collection, Uncommon Type. And recently appeared in a documentary […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 100 Books to Look For in 2025 It’s always a good day when the folks at The Millions […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s most anticipated books of the year season, and I’m here to add my list to the mix! For the last few weeks, I’ve been wading through endless tabs of lists, recommendations, and sources for upcoming queer books—and […]
January 13, 2025, 11:00am This morning, The Story Prize—which seeks to recognize the best short story collection published every year—announced its three 2025 finalists, chosen from a total of 107 submissions. “Each of these three story collections is so original in conception and brilliantly executed that only the person who wrote them could have done so. […]
Getting up to speed on the review sources being used and given legitimacy outside of BookLooks matters because in order to effect actual change, we have to be aware of the various ways these tools are being used and implemented. Certainly, get to know BookLooks. But if your knowledge ends there, you’ve got a lot […]
TODAY: In 1928, Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy dies. Megan Craig examines the poetry of geology: “Oddly, perhaps, it is the late physician, neurologist, and author Oliver Sacks who offers the most poetic assessment of rocks.” | The American Scholar How romance readers rallied towards fighting book bans. | The Guardian Greta Rainbow chronicles a year […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A Big List of 2025 Books By Women of Color Electric Literature rounded up 48 books by women […]
