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For years, I convinced myself I couldn’t grasp the sense of a sentence without paper and ink. The same letters, flashed on a screen, never seemed...

Charles Dickens wrote, in his novel David Copperfield, “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in...

Back in 2012 or so, I discovered FictionPress (the sister site to FanFiction.Net). This was the first major repository of original fiction I’d ever come across,...

I like to joke sometimes that I was a history major in a past life. Or in the middle of the night, when I’m trying to...

Are you in the market for some mystery book club suggestions? Mysteries and thrillers are fun picks for book clubs because they offer plenty of suspense...

What makes a great sex scene in fiction? I checked in with readers, authors, and editors to find what gets readers’ engines revving in romance and...

When Ralph Ellison introduced himself to the 1966 Pen Congress, an international conference for arts and letters, he said: “I am an American novelist. I sometimes...

Love a side of swords with your fantasy? Enter swashbuckling fantasy! Find some great recs here. What Even is Swashbuckling Fantasy? Swashbuckling fiction has been around...

Welcome to Book Fetish: Volume 447, your weekly round up of bookish clothing, art, accessories, reading tools, and more from around the web! Break In Case...

A classic piece of writing advice is, “Don’t wait for the muse.” But I’ve always felt this is dismissive of muses. You need the muses to...