Winter 2023

What if the 20th century professional-managerial class read obscene books not to get off but to get down with bureaucracy?

Utopian societies popped up all over the United States in the 1840's and for one Ozarker, Columbia-based novelist Steve Wiegenstein, it was a chance for him to combine his love for an area of Missouri in which his family goes back 5 generations with his fascination for these 19th century egalitarian communities. He talks about his Daybreak series of novels with Diana Moxon and how the history of a legendary and terrifying guerilla fighter intersects with his own ancestors. And in Act Two of the show, Diana chats with metal sculptor, butch Murphy, who went from a career in the sanitized world of medicine to a retirement of rust, oil and the grime of scrapyards. Opening and closing musical credits with thanks to guitarist Yasmin Williams (www.yasminwilliamsmusic.com).

“I’ve been collecting these theories of why writers write because so many writers have written about it.”

Caution! Poison Snake On Premises! So read a handwritten sign posted at the entrance of our house. Our house was in the outskirts of Tokyo, in a town called Ōizumi in a district called Nerima. The …

Twelve years ago these days, in early July 2010, I put aside print books and began reading only ebooks. The transition to digital allowed...

In Kaitlyn Tiffany's sharp and funny 'Everything I Need I Get From You,' online fandom is serious business.

From the Beatles to One Direction — her new book on the history of fans

If you're examining how reliable an ancient or mediaeval text is, the app crit is your best friend. But reading it takes practice.

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

It looks like Amazon will be allowing you to put EPUB books onto your Kindle devices. Historically, only MOBI formatted books were allowed on the Kindle, so this is an excellent (if not overdue) update. This change, as noted by 9to5 Mac, will still not allow you to put EPUBs purchased on the Apple Books Store on... Continue reading →

“It isn’t a memorial for the burned but for those who burned them.”

75% of U.S. adults say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2011.

Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties. ”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts

George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life.. ”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review

Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing …

In August 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, AAWW’s digital literary magazine The Margins launched a new Flash Fiction project. One year into the fortnightly series, after reading over almost…

The author talks to writer James Greig about her debut novel – a sharply-observed satire meets horror about the modern-day trans experience and the insidious creep of fascism.

Two years spent in an MFA program, in other words, constitute a tiny and often ineffectual part of the American writer’s lifelong engagement with the university. And yet critics continue to bemoan the mechanizing effects of the programs, and to draw links between a writer’s degree-holding status and her degree of aesthetic freedom. Get out of the schools and live!

I should state up front that I am not a fan of programme fiction. Basically, I feel about it as towards new fiction from...

There’s no doubt that Amazon transformed the publishing industry. But has it done the same for literature itself?

Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.

Kaveh Akbar talks to Craig Morgan Teicher about recovery, social media, and building silence into the poetry collection ‘Pilgrim Bell.’

Philip Roth reviews his own biographer