On Sunday, October 29, the The Tata Literature Live! Mumbai Litfest announced the winners of Book of the Year – Fiction, Book of the Year – Nonfiction, First Book – Fiction, First Book – Nonfiction, Business Book of the Year, and Publisher of the Year. Along with them, achievements in a lifetime of writing were…

This year, I embarked on organising the Black British Book Festival while carrying a significant secret – my pregnancy. Initially, I kept this fact hidden, reflecting the pressure society places on working women. This feels particularly acute in fields traditionally dominated by women, such as publishing. However, as the festival took shape, I realised it…

Anytime I crack open a horror book, I know I’m taking a risk. I’m the kind of person who, upon hearing the floorboards creak, automatically assumes it’s a ghost stopping by to say hello. While we often relegate our scary movies and spooky songs to the month of October, in our mind, horror literature should…

Before the American revolution, independence, or the United States of America there was literature; there were pamphlets, newspapers, almanacs, and books.  Then as now people often compiled information from literature other than books and reprinted it in books.  Books contain an enormous range of thought and human experience, and literature of all kinds documented and shaped the…

“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s genre. Through Gothic literature, women writers have developed and dominated horror storytelling since the 18th Century to discuss social issues…

★★★☆☆ In the Kitchen, collected and published by Daunt Books, is a collection of thirteen essays from thirteen authors that embolden the shared hub of culture and community across borders and disparities: the kitchen. Yet it ultimately fails at providing a unique perspective on the kitchen’s role outside of its function.  The book is divided…

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Grady Hendrix, the modern master of literary horror and a writer whom the Wall Street Journal has called “a national treasure,” will discuss his groundbreaking work at the next installment of the Exhibit X Fiction Series, an annual event hosted by the University at Buffalo Department of English, which for nearly 20…

Grady Hendrix, the modern master of literary horror and a writer whom the Wall Street Journal has called “a national treasure,” will discuss his groundbreaking work at the next installment of the Exhibit X Fiction Series, an annual event hosted by the Department of English that for nearly 20 years has been showcasing the work…

Exeter City of Literature is running a fundraising campaign to raise money to purchase new books that will be sent to designated Warm Spaces in Exeter and Devon. The campaign will run from 30 October to 16 February. Warm spaces will include community centres, churches and parish halls. In England, 5.1 million adults lack the…

On July 22, 2022 Texas prison authorities banned the second edition of Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary, purportedly because there was an image of a weapon. This banned title was added to the 10,265 others that incarcerated people can’t read in Texas prisons. Unfortunately, dictionaries aren’t the only kind of books banned by Texas corrections officials and…