Yes, You Have To: 6 Legitimate Reasons to Create a Book Outline
Writing a book is beyond hard. Those of us in the thick of the book writing process know that. Which means if there’s something that can...
Classroom Censorship in Mat-Su Alaska School District Latest In Long Line
The Matanuska-Susitna School Board (Mat-Su) pulled five classics of American literature from high school English classrooms in a sweeping 5-2 vote. Pulled from curriculum are Invisible...
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Writing with Empathy
For NPR, debut novelist Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai discusses her book, The Mountains Sing, which follows four generations of a Vietnamese family and centers on a...
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is Getting New Adaptations
Good news Pratchett fans! Narrativia, Pratchett’s production company, has signed on with Motive Pictures and Endeavor Content to develop the Discworld series. Key word there: develop. It’s...
Pandemic Journal
The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Amanda Fortini in Livingston, Jeet Thayil...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 29, 2020
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Get This Deal $2.99Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Get This...
Parenting in the Smog of Industrial London
“On Growing Ferns and Other Plants in Glass Cases, in the Midst of the Smoke of London”by Daniel Mason 1. Sometimes, during the night, she wakes...
We’re All Living in the Bathroom Now
When I was nine, I sat on an Amtrak somewhere in Northwest Montana, melting into my coach seat. Another train had derailed ahead of us and...
Shakespeare Cross-Stitch Patterns Are Indeed Violent Delights
Shakespeare may have foretold that violent delights have violent ends, but when it comes to stabbing canvas with a needle and thread, it’s simply not true....
Why I Married a Book Nerd
Eight years ago, one of my colleagues asked if I’d go to the library with him on our lunch break. While we wandered the aisles, he...
