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Just had my first Christmas cookie of the season, and I can say without reservation that sprinkles are important.
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Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop
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Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.”
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/patricia-lockwood-reads-elizabeth-bishop
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More reason to support your local independent bookstore instead.
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Barnes & Noble Plans to Open 60 Stores in 2026 - Publishers Lunch
Barnes & Noble plans to open another 60 new stores across the US in 2026. New locations will include stores in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, Washington state, California, Virginia,…
https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/barnes-noble-plans-to-open-60-stores-in-2026/
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Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?
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Why Has Criticism Always Been Such a Good Side Gig for Artists?
There might not be a more natural, if also more fraught, complementary profession to artistry than criticism. Who, after all, would have a better perspective on the necessary background and unique …
https://lithub.com/why-has-criticism-always-been-such-a-good-side-gig-for-artists/
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Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
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Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/dyslexia-and-the-reading-wars
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The effects of gratitude are instant.
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Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
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Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
https://pen.org/announcing-the-2026-pen-america-literary-awards-longlists/
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Scholastic Sales Inched Up in Q2, Profits Rose 11%
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Scholastic Sales Inched Up in Q2, Profits Rose 11%
Gains in the company’s children’s book publishing and distribution, as well as international groups, offset declines in its entertainment and educational solution units, while lower costs helped…
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/99337-scholastic-sales-inched-up-in-q2-profits-rose-11.html
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The New Way of Seeing: In Anya Berger’s Archives
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The New Way of Seeing: In Anya Berger's Archives by Emily Foister
December 18, 2025 – "In an untitled fragment from the summer of 1974, after her separation from John, she begins: 'To live alone is, first and foremost, not to be seen. No interested eye observes…
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12/18/the-new-way-of-seeing-in-anya-bergers-archives/
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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State”
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Lawrence Wright on A. J. Liebling’s “The Great State”
For all the humor in his reporting, Liebling recognized Louisiana’s governor as something more than another political buffoon. That insight made the piece a classic.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/takes/lawrence-wright-on-a-j-lieblings-the-great-state
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The books quiz of 2025 – set by Mick Herron, Bernardine Evaristo, Ali Smith and more
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The books quiz of 2025 – set by Mick Herron, Bernardine Evaristo, Ali Smith and more
The romantic proclivities of the Shelleys, a notable corpse and a diner delight – test your knowledge with questions posed by favourite authors
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/21/books-quiz-of-2025-bernardine-evaristo-mick-herron-ali-smith-and-more
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I'm sure some folks out there enjoy a dog biscuit with their tea, but...
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What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?
If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-if-readers-like-ai-generated-fiction
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PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment
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PEN America’s New President, Novelist Dinaw Mengestu, on Books, Literary Culture, Free Expression, and Censorship in This Moment
New president of PEN America, novelist Dinaw Mengestu, speaks with striking clarity about the intertwined fates of literature and liberty.
https://pen.org/dinaw-mengestu-president-interview/
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After John le Carré's death, his son faced the 'daunting' task of reviving George Smiley
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After John le Carré's death, his son faced the 'daunting' task of reviving George Smiley
Nick Harkaway grew up hearing his dad read drafts of his George Smiley novels. He picked up le Carré's beloved spymaster character in the novel Karla's Choice. Originally broadcast Oct. 23, 2024.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5648326/after-john-le-carres-death-his-son-faced-the-daunting-task-of-reviving-george-smiley
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Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’
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Yael van der Wouden : ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cured my fear of aliens’
The Safekeep author on her secret childhood reading, falling in love with Elizabeth Strout and why she keeps coming back to Zadie Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/19/yael-van-der-wouden-the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-cured-my-fear-of-aliens
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An ode to the old-fashioned publishing holiday party, in photos.
Publishing people used to corner the market on yuletide bacchanals. You hear stories. Decadence was expected. HR, AWOL. In last year’s Cut, Emily Gould interviewed partygoers from previous ep…
https://lithub.com/an-ode-to-the-old-fashioned-publishing-holiday-party-in-photos/
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The Public Domain Review
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L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow. See the wonderful illustrations, and more on Denslow's eventful life, here:
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The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
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The Entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/press-room/the-entire-new-yorker-archive-is-now-fully-digitized
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The Best Short Story Collections of 2025
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The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Our favorite short story collections of 2025.
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/18/the-best-short-story-collections-of-2025/
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When Kat and Woolf cross paths, it's hiss and growl...
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Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”
The long weekend that Katherine Mansfield spent at Garsington Manor, the home of Philip and Lady Ottoline Morrell near Oxford, from July 13-17, 1916, was a hectic one, with numerous literary and ar…
https://lithub.com/virginia-woolf-thought-katharine-mansfield-stank-like-a-civet-cat-taken-to-streetwalking/
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The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye
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The Strange History of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Las Vegas Private Eye
During my research for The Alaskan Blonde, a true crime book that reexamines the 1953 murder of wealthy Alaskan businessman Cecil Wells, I was amazed to learn that Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator…
https://crimereads.com/erle-stanley-gardner-las-vegas-private-eye/
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I would listen to Olga Tokarczuk's grocery list...🖤
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House of Day, House of Night Audiobook on Libro.fm
“Bewitching … Tokarczuk is an excellent storyteller.” —The New York TimesA novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of...
https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1765644&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9798217163489
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In the Reissue of “Nebraska” by George Whitmore, A Memorial for a Voice Lost to AIDS
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In the Reissue of “Nebraska” by George Whitmore, A Memorial for a Voice Lost to AIDS - Chicago Review of Books
In the prologue to his 1988 book of profiles of people living with AIDS in New York City, Someone Was Here, George Whitmore describes a photograph he saw in a magazine in a waiting room, a picture of…
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/16/in-the-reissue-of-nebraska-by-george-whitmore-a-memorial-for-a-voice-lost-to-aids/
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/16/noopiming-the-cure-for-white-ladies-by-leanne-betasamosake-simpson-review-startlingly-original
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Just books wrapped in wool socks this year, thank you.
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William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece
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William Golding: The Faber Letters review – the making of a masterpiece
Correspondence between the Lord of the Flies author and his editor reveals one of the great literary collaborations of the age
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/15/william-golding-the-faber-letters-review-the-making-of-a-masterpiece
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James Thurber, Consummate Doodler
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Navied Mahdavian on James Thurber
It wasn’t until I started cartooning myself that I realized he only made it look easy.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/navied-mahdavian-on-james-thurber
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A Deep Dive into the Rich History of Black Bookstores
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A Deep Dive into the Rich History of Black Bookstores
Black bookstores are and have always been not only retail spaces, but spaces for community and revolution.
https://bookriot.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-rich-history-of-black-bookstores/
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It's snowing in New York City today, and snow is always an opportunity for silent, calm reflection, something we all need more of. I hope it's peaceful where you are.
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Here’s hoping that Johnny Depp doesn’t ruin The Master And Margarita.
Pirate of the Caribbean Johnny Depp, who drifted out to sea after allegations of abuse, recently announced he’s producing an English language film based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margari…
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I guess this means we'll be seeing James Patterson in trade format at the drugstore now?
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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html
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It's Saturday, and there are so many things I won't be reading about today.
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I've gifted A Month in the Country and The Summer Book many times. Good list here...
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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone
Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone
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Forty Years Aboard ‘The Polar Express’
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Forty Years Aboard ‘The Polar Express’
Four decades have passed since young readers first climbed on the North Pole-bound Polar Express along with Santa and the narrator of Chris Van Allsburg’s Christmas classic. We spoke with the author…
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/99271-forty-years-aboard-the-polar-express.html
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds; Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle; All Tomorrows by CM Kosemen; The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson; The Witching Hour by various authors
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/12/the-best-recent-science-fiction-fantasy-and-horror-review-roundup
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Want to start a literary magazine? The original Paris Review offices are for sale.
George Plimpton, impresario founder of The Paris Review, has a literary legacy that keeps on giving. Now, fans of the man can peep into his old townhouse. Otherwise known as the OG offices of Ameri…
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