My most transformative reading experiences have been ones in which I see the worst parts of myself in full display on the page. From the time I was a teenager, I’ve gravitated toward women characters and writers whose behaviors, addictions, and ailments were at odds with their “potential.” Esther in The Bell Jar, Edna St.…

<img class="img-sized__img landscape" alt="A rotating bedside bookshelf, hand-poured soy candle that’s scented like old books and a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader.” width=”720″ height=”405″ src=”https://news.myworldfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/6385bc9c1f000067004f0f34.jpg”> Amazon, Etsy A rotating bedside bookshelf, hand-poured soy candle that’s scented like old books and a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader. Inside the pages of books, I’ve felt entire ranges of human emotions, explored…

The year in literature: 2023 was the year of the difficult second novel The best novel of the twenty-first century, Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2014), opens with a scene depicting the start of its own writing process. Its protagonist, also called Ben, celebrates selling an unnamed novel which sounds a lot like 10:04, joining his agent for an…

The year in literature: 2023 was the year of the difficult second novel The best novel of the twenty-first century, Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2014), opens with a scene depicting the start of its own writing process. Its protagonist, also called Ben, celebrates selling an unnamed novel which sounds a lot like 10:04, joining his agent for an…

The objective of the English Language Literature Bursary Award is to enable professional writers and picture book artists (working mainly through the English language) to spend more time on their creative work. The award seeks to provide writers and picture book artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect, create and write. It enables…

It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we’ve had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows. This year, there have been dozens of first-rate historical novels — so many that choosing even the 25 best would have been a chore. Which makes…

In “Flores and Miss Paula,” Melissa Rivero takes readers inside a Brooklyn apartment where family ties are uncomfortably snug. FLORES AND MISS PAULA, by Melissa Rivero Melissa Rivero’s sophomore novel, “Flores and Miss Paula,” is a familiar, if uneven, tale of generational disapproval and resentment. We meet Paula Flores, a Peruvian-born, religious mother, and Monica,…

In “Flores and Miss Paula,” Melissa Rivero takes readers inside a Brooklyn apartment where family ties are uncomfortably snug. FLORES AND MISS PAULA, by Melissa Rivero Melissa Rivero’s sophomore novel, “Flores and Miss Paula,” is a familiar, if uneven, tale of generational disapproval and resentment. We meet Paula Flores, a Peruvian-born, religious mother, and Monica,…

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, but at least the reading was good. Here are the Literary Hub staffers on the best books—both new and old, because why limit ourselves? Time is a flat circle, etc. etc.—that we read in 2023: Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A…

December 5, 2023, 4:44am The wheel of the year always keeps turning, and, no matter how unreasonably fast or glacially slow it seems to do so, it always, eventually, reaches December, that beginning of an end. But it’s also the beginning, looked at another way, of new beginnings, a symbol as much of a year…