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Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance? Hello, hello! Welcome back to another thrilling installment of everyone’s favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, a place where you can have a beer along with a tasty side of literary g…

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“Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t actually care about romance?” A love-letter to real passion vs. fake chemistry — and all the messy feels in between. 💘📚
buff.ly/cM65uOk #RomanceBooks #LitHub #BookTwitter #BookDiscussion #WritingCommunity

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Here Are Your Guides Through the Opaque World of Book Publishing Unfortunately for aspiring authors, there are no easy guidelines for how to publish a book successfully, no key to ensuring bestseller status by following six simple bullet points. Much of the way …

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Navigating book publishing feels like decoding ancient hieroglyphics? 📚🔍 LitHub lays out the best guides to help you through the opaque maze from pitch to print. Essential for every writer plotting world domination. buff.ly/BnBhsfX #publishing #amwriting #WritingCommunity #LitHub #WritersLife

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BuriedInPrint

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1 month ago

Letter From Minnesota: “Mad Means Something” The greatest poem ever written about Minneapolis is a curse on the city. It‘s by James Wright, who wrote “The Minneapolis Poem” and published it in Shall We Gather at the River in 1968. He hated th…

I feel like I've been on that bus, as described here. That sense of solidarity, the feeling you didn't have until you boarded that bus.
Beautiful.
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Letter From #Minnesota:
“Mad Means Something”
#CharlesBaxter on the Rage of the #Poet, and Its #Power
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lithub.com/letter-from-... Via #lithub

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Kathleen Boland on Getting Lost (as a Writing Practice) This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The advice to “write what you know” presumes you know what you know. From Jesus to Wordsworth, people wandered into the wi…

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Sometimes getting lost is exactly where good writing begins. Kathleen Boland explores why wandering in your work can lead to surprising discoveries and better stories. buff.ly/Gd4hOtD #amwriting #WritingProcess #CreativePractice #LitHub #WritersLife

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Writing Toward the Void: Larissa Pham on Facing Your Fears in Fiction What’s the scariest scenario you can imagine? Mine goes something like this: Imagine a woman wrote a book—no, a revenge fantasy—about a mentor who abused his power. What if that book’s subject enco…

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Facing fear in fiction isn’t a bug — it’s the point. Larissa Pham writes about leaning into the void in your stories and why that’s where the magic lives. buff.ly/wUbtgYe #amwriting #WritingTips #Fiction #WritersLife #LitHub #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Nancy Quinn

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1 month ago

George Saunders, Heather Ann Thompson, Stephen Fishbach, and more: 20 new books out today! A new George Saunders out today: what more could anyone possibly want? And yet, that’s just the beginning of our week’s delivery of thrilling new titles: there’s another rigorous …

George Saunders, Heather Ann Thompson, Stephen Fishbach, and more: 20 new books out today! lithub.com/george-saund...

#booksky #newrelease #lithub

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Funny

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1 month ago

Maria Tureaud on Translating the Trauma of Colonialism into Horror Stories I can’t remember when I first noticed the ridges, but it was likely sometime between the ages of eight to twelve, at an ...

#Essays #Features #Gothic #Horror #International #Lithub […]

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#Minnesota Madness

#space #democrats #republicans #aliens #asmsg #indiedev #bookbub #lithub #indiegamedev #gamedev #science #police #mystery #fascism #sciencefiction #scifibooks #MCU #DCU #bookboost #story #amreading #romance #superhero #cosmic #goodreads #insurrectionact #MAGA #ICE #resist #danger

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The Porn Generation

#indiegamedev #gamedev #science #bookbub #lithub #booksky #mystery #adventure #sciencefiction #scifibooks #MCU #DCU #bookboost #story #amreading #romance #superhero #cosmic #goodreads #dating #men #women #relationships

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Lace up your skates, the next horny hockey book is coming. Used to be that if you saw steam coming off a hockey rink, it meant a Zamboni had just cruised by. But lately it’s more likely because a sports romance book is getting someone hot and bothere…

1 month ago

Lace up your skates — the next horny hockey book is coming and it’s about to give fans all the queer romance, heat, and locker-room feels we’ve been waiting for. 🏒🔥 buff.ly/aXoaAyf #QueerBooks #LGBTQ #HockeyRomance #AmReading #LitHub

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Resolved to finish more books in 2026? Here’s your guide to the web’s best reading challenges. Tis a truth universally acknowledged that in the second week of January, resolutions made in earnest over champagne toasts fizzle out like fireworks. This is the rubber meet road week, when we (or,…

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Resolved to finish more books in 2026? Here’s your guide to the web’s best reading challenges — fun ways to stay motivated and explore new reads all year long.
buff.ly/4DNjdz7 #ReadingGoals #BookChallenges #AmReading #LitHub #2026Reads

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Cops On I.C.E. ...

#space #democrats #republicans #aliens #asmsg #indiedev #bookbub #lithub #indiegamedev #gamedev #science #police #mystery #fascism #sciencefiction #scifibooks #MCU #DCU #bookboost #story #amreading #romance #superhero #cosmic #goodreads #insurrectionact #MAGA #ICE #resist #danger

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In 2025, most Americans read fewer than four books. According to a YouGov poll released at year’s end, American reading habits stay in the toilet. Four in ten Americans didn’t read a single book during our last spin around the sun. And o…

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In 2025, most Americans read fewer than four books — a sobering look at reading habits, attention, and what it means for readers and writers alike. buff.ly/RVZ6xci #ReadingStats #BookCulture #AmReading #LitHub #WritersLife

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1 month ago

Don't Pull Over?

#space #democrats #republicans #aliens #asmsg #indiedev #bookbub #lithub #indiegamedev #gamedev #science #police #mystery #fascism #sciencefiction #scifibooks #MCU #DCU #bookboost #story #amreading #romance #superhero #cosmic #goodreads #insurrectionact #MAGA #ICE #resist #danger

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The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs For nineteen years, until his retirement in 1885, Herman Melville would awake, slick back his dark hair and unsnarl the snags from his beard, don a uniform of dark navy pilot cloth and affix to his…

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Loved this piece on the work behind the writing — how day jobs, routines, and real life shape the stories we tell. buff.ly/dD6b2dj #WritingLife #AmWriting #WritersRoutine #LitHub #Creativity #authorslife #writingcommunity

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Marisa Silver on Exploring What Strikes You First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, …

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Loved this piece on exploring what truly strikes you — thoughtful writing about attention, curiosity, and what keeps us hooked as readers and creators. buff.ly/FEKpDaq #AmWriting #WritersLife #ReadingDeep #LitHub #Creativity

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Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand Amit Chaudhuri’s novel, A New World, is available now from New York Review Books, so we asked him a few questions about writing routines, writers block, rereading, and more. * What time of da…

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Amit Chaudhuri still writes his novels longhand, and honestly? I love this reminder that there’s no single “right” way to write. Pens, notebooks, slow thinking, deep attention—it all counts. buff.ly/8wQA2pT #WritingProcess #AmWriting #WritersLife #LitHub #Authors

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Harlequin France is firing its human translators and replacing them with—welp, you guessed it. Harlequin France, which is owned by HarperCollins, has just confirmed that they’re shifting away from human translators with an eye to robot replacements. As The Bookseller reported this morn…

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Harlequin France is reportedly ending contracts with human translators and shifting to AI-assisted translation — a move that’s sparking major debate about quality, craft, and the future of literary work. buff.ly/kXUKTxm #PublishingNews #AIinBooks #Translation #WritersLife #LitHub #BookIndustry

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Five Steps to a Better Writing Process This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. Give Yourself Time The time of writing is different from the time of daily life. In daily life, our time is not free: w…

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Want to sharpen your writing craft? Lit Hub lays out five practical steps—from giving yourself time to write, to multiple drafts and feedback, to mastering both big picture + micro detail. buff.ly/ZAHOhdd #WritingAdvice #AmWriting #WritersLife #LitHub #WritingProcess

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Jazmine Bell

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2 months ago

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

ICE murdered a prize-winning poet. A mother and a poet. Not a terrorist.
Winning poem in the #lithub link below.
#poetry
#ICE
#murder
lithub.com/renee-nicole...

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Eve Castle

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2 months ago

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Found this article. Have not verified this with anyone or with any other organization. RIP Renee Nicole Good #poet #LitHub

#MinneapolisShooting #ICEMurder #TrumpGestapo #Minnesota #Politics #ETTD #NoemLies #TrumpLies #DemandJustice #PeacefulProtest

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

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DCRbooks

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2 months ago

TODAY: In 1945, “I’m Crazy” by J. D. Salinger (the first appearance Holden Caulfield) is published in Collier’s. —via #LitHub

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@thehauntedpulpit.bsky.social

2 months ago

The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List Happy List Season, children. I hope you’ve been good. Just like every year, I have arrived to present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all (or at…

Usually, there is at least one "it"—meaning a super popular book—for the year, but this year it seems like there isn't one? Tell me, friends, am I missing an obvious title?

Lithub's list is a good example.

Look at the range.

#Books #Libraries #Trends #Reading #LitHub

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Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025 It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…

3 months ago

Round out your reading year with Lit Hub’s list of 43 favorite books of 2025. So many great picks to add to your TBR stack! buff.ly/wJSMd4S #BookLovers #YearEndReads #ReadingList #LitHub #BookRecommendations

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Finland

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3 months ago

Why Harry Truman Didn’t Trust the U.S. Military with Atomic Bombs In the first few months of 1948, the new Cold War began warming up. A Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia had led to the Communi...

#Features #Genres #Historical #History #Lithub #New […]

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Finland

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3 months ago

Why Harry Truman Didn’t Trust the U.S. Military with Atomic Bombs In the first few months of 1948, the new Cold War began warming up. A Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia had led to the Communi...

#Features #Genres #Historical #History #Lithub #New […]

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