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Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review
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Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review
Reality is twisted and sanity jumbled in Sam Munson's surreal psychological novel, The Sofa. Reviewed by Nick Rees Gardner.
https://independentbookreview.com/2025/11/07/book-review-the-sofa-by-sam-munson/
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A Writer Embraces the Chaos—and Comedy—of the Classroom
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A Writer Embraces the Chaos—and Comedy—of the Classroom
Raquel D’Apice, Emmy Award-winning comedy writer and author of the picture book 'I Am a Highly Dangerous Warrior!,' shares how her messiest and wildest experiences as a substitute teacher help fuel…
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/99038-a-writer-embraces-the-chaos-and-comedy-of-the-classroom.html
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Making Bookstores a Safe Haven for Communities: An Interview with Char Adams
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Making Bookstores a Safe Haven for Communities: An Interview with Char Adams - Chicago Review of Books
I’ve always loved books about books and books about social movements, so when I came across Black Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore, which combines both of these topics, I knew I…
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/06/making-bookstores-a-safe-haven-for-communities-an-interview-with-char-adams/
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Taking Stock: Patti Smith Looks Back on Everything
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This Week's Old Bread
Read them before they go stale.
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Ocean Vuong on how failing business school led him into literature
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Ocean Vuong on how failing business school led him into literature
Ocean Vuong describes his way into writing. The story includes an exceptional teacher. Vuong has been named to the TIME100 Next 2025, placing him among the world's most influential rising…
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Finding the Truth In the Imaginary: On “Accurately” Writing About Time Travel
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Finding the Truth In the Imaginary: On “Accurately” Writing About Time Travel
When I began writing Lightbreakers, I hoped it would be much easier to write than my previous novel, The Ensemble, about a classical string quartet. I grew up playing cello but am not a professiona…
https://lithub.com/finding-the-truth-in-the-imaginary-on-accurately-writing-about-time-travel/
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“will our heads, full to bursting with machinery, have any room left for the thin trickle of dreams and escape?”
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‘The Inventors’
The poet René Char, a hero of the French Resistance, said after the war that although totalitarianism appeared to have been defeated with the Nazis, it was in fact only asleep. What he saw as “colossa...
https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/poem-of-the-week/the-inventors-rene-char-alan-bold-andrew-mcculloch
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Real writing is an author plumbing the depths of their mind, not scraping the dregs of some data mining server in a storage facility by the interstate.
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Lactose Intolerance
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Lactose Intolerance | Lisa Borst
Thomas Pynchon, who has so frequently returned to the primordial clash of fascism and anarchy, found his groove in the detective genre.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/lactose-intolerance-borst
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‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
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‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/margaret-atwood-interview-handmaids-tale-author-new-memoir
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In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
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In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-librarians-in-dangerous-times/
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Deliverables is a stupid word. As you were.
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Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
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Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
“I do not believe in ghosts (very much)” –Anne Sexton, “Leaves that Talk” * In her 1959 letter to Frederick Morgan, one of the founding editors of The Hudson Review, Anne Sexton beamed: “I wrote th…
https://lithub.com/reading-anne-sextons-rejected-horror-stories/
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“Mother of Men,” by Lauren Groff
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“Mother of Men,” by Lauren Groff
I saw someone coming toward me through the twilight on the road ahead, a skinny man in a glowing white shirt, and dread rushed into me.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/mother-of-men-fiction-lauren-groff
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‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
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‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/02/its-not-just-a-book-its-a-window-to-my-soul-why-were-in-love-with-literary-angst
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A new cookbook shows what to do with old bread using recipes from peasant traditions
A new cookbook drawing from different peasant traditions focuses on using bits of old bread to create delectable and economical dishes.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/02/nx-s1-5552282/a-new-cookbook-shows-what-to-do-with-old-bread-using-recipes-from-peasant-traditions
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Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers
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Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers
King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/31/writers-boycott-british-library-striking-workers-joe-hill-tales-of-the-weird
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How ‘House of Day, House of Night’ by Olga Tokarczuk Got Made
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How ‘House of Day, House of Night’ by Olga Tokarczuk Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the Nobel Prize winner’s classic novel.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/98982-how-house-of-day-house-of-night-by-olga-tokarczuk-got-made.html
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New Olga Tokarczuk and other awesome picks...
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Matterist Picks
Because Books Matter.
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For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge
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The Sacred Scrolls of Doom Have Lost Their Power
But not the mighty Jack-o'-lantern...
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Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
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Essay by Patti Smith: Art Rats in New York City
Finding my own words.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/art-rats-in-new-york-city
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Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’
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Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’
The writer on bingeing Henry James, his friendship with Benjamin Zephaniah and a confidence-boosting classic
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/31/derek-owusu-i-never-read-a-book-until-the-age-of-24
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XO, pumpkinheads.
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The Sacred Scrolls of Doom Have Lost Their Power
But not the mighty Jack-o'-lantern...
https://open.substack.com/pub/matteristbooks/p/the-sacred-scrolls-of-doom-have-lost?r=6bnmy6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Mini Horror Stories for Literary People
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Mini Horror Stories for Literary People - Electric Literature
Ghosts? Been there, done that. Someone writing their own marginalia in a book you leant them? Petrifying!
https://electricliterature.com/mini-horror-stories-for-literary-people/
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Good intentions and historical/political ignorance can be a disastrous combination.
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Happy Halloween! Here's to more chocolate and less dumb stuff in your bag. 🎃
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How to Endure Authoritarianism
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How to Endure Authoritarianism
A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of East Europe’s dissidents.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism
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Ha Jin Returns to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in His New Novel
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Ha Jin Returns to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in His New Novel - Electric Literature
“Looking for Tank Man” sharply examines authoritarian regimes through the eyes a college student uncovering facts suppressed by her government
https://electricliterature.com/ha-jin-returns-to-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-in-his-new-novel/
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Nothing puts me off a new book like an AI generated cover.
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Stories Matter Foundation Statement on Social Justice
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Stories Matter Foundation Statement on Social Justice - Chicago Review of Books
Stories Matter Foundation, through StoryStudio Chicago, The Chicago Stories Project, and the Chicago Review of Books, stands in solidarity with immigrant communities in Chicago and beyond. We condemn…
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/30/stories-matter-foundation-statement-on-social-justice/
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Writer Oliver Lovrenski: The Story of My Generation
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Writer Oliver Lovrenski: The Story of My Generation
“When I wrote the book, I knew it wasn’t going to be my story. I wanted to write Oslo’s story. My generation’s story.” We met the Norwegian writer, Oliver Lovrenski, to discuss his critically…
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Authors’ Class Action Lawsuit Against OpenAI Moves Ahead
A New York judge dismissed an attempt by OpenAI to throw out a class action lawsuit that consolidates suits from a number of authors charging the company with copyright infringement.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/98961-authors-class-action-lawsuit-against-openai-moves-forward.html
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Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety
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Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith review – essays for an age of anxiety
From cultural appropriation to gender, Smith nails the politics of creativity. But on actual politics, she is less assured
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/29/dead-and-alive-by-zadie-smith-review-essays-for-an-age-of-anxiety
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Longlist Revealed for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
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Longlist Revealed for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction | Book Pulse
The longlist for 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction is revealed. The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize shortlist is announced. Wreck by Catherine Newman is GMA’s…
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/andrew-carnegie-longlists-2026-book-pulse
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The Art of Uncertainty in “The Devil is a Southpaw”
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The Art of Uncertainty in "The Devil is a Southpaw" - Chicago Review of Books
From the first page of Brandon Hobson’s The Devil is a Southpaw, readers are warned they may be entering a false narrative. The book opens with a foreword that casts doubt on its own reliability,…
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/28/the-art-of-uncertainty-in-the-devil-is-a-southpaw/
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A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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A new fund will route millions to the literary arts
A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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Propaganda only has power when we believe it.
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