Sky Schaudt/KJZZ Just some of the books you can win in the KJZZ’s Word podcast Tiny Library giveaway. Enter to win a “Tiny Library” made up of books from authors interviewed on Season 10 of KJZZ’s Word podcast. There is an option to win a children’s book bundle as well as a bundle suited for…

Restless Books sets up shop in Amherst: Independent publisher started in New York City finds a new home in the Valley <!– –> <span class="lightgalleryimg" data-src="/getattachment/64854a74-e336-40e0-a1f4-a35c73bdb7f6/Restless-HG-120123-ph1" data-sub-html="Grace Talusan, a Filipino American writer, won a Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her memoir “The Body Papers.” One critic calls the book “an extraordinary portrait of the…

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I have read Annie Dillard’s classic essay “Total Eclipse” purely for the sake of the story—to stand on the hill beside her while the world howled itself into darkness and then reclaimed the light. I have read it to map its multitudes—the iterative ways in which…

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum acquires first-edition copy of Phillis Wheatley’s poetry collection Two hundred fifty years ago this week, a ship called the Dartmouth set anchor in Boston. One of the three Boston Tea Party ships, it carried heaps of East India Tea, and another special crate tucked between the fragrant boxes of…

Win Cló Iar Chonnacht Book Bundles – W/c 4th Dec 2023:   It’s that time of year again and we’re delighted to announce this Christmas competition to celebrate the Cló Iar-Chonnacht Christmas sale, which runs from 1 to 23 December.  Tune in this week to Kayte O’Malley on On The Move 3 -7pm for your chance…

Public fascination with con artists, scams, and heists has been on the rise, with stories of Anna Delvey, Rachel Dolezal, Caroline Calloway, and Elizabeth Holmes splashing across magazine covers in the last decade. Alongside it, my thirsty interest in literary scandals has grown, watered by “Bad Art Friend,” a mysterious manuscript thief, the pathological lies…

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the novel Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, which will be published by One World on June 18th 2024. A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies…

Official Aliens search-and-find puzzle book, based on the movie, featuring a host of highly detailed full-colour illustrations by artist Kevin Crossley set in familiar film locations. As one of the most highly regarded movie sequels of all time, Aliens quickly embedded itself in the minds of cinemagoers around the world when it was released in…

TODAY: In 1886, Rex Stout, American writer of detective fiction, is born.   The best audiobooks of 2023—or, 108.5 hours of entertainment for your holiday travels. | Lit Hub Here’s the Literary Film & TV You Should Stream in December, featuring a new season of Slow Horses, the film adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s Leave the…

Katherine Rundell, author I’ve been reading a superb and terrifying book: Fire Weather, by John Vaillant, which has recently won the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction. It’s the story of locals, lawmakers and firefighters, confronting a fire in Fort McMurray, Canada so intense it created its own weather systems: lightning, hurricanes, storms. It’s an account…