A Summary and Analysis of ‘Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers’

A Summary and Analysis of ‘Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers’

Reading Time: 1 Min. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers’ is a 1949 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Published when he was just twenty-two years old, it is one of his earliest stories. It’s also one of his shortest, running to just four pages. Narrated by the […]

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Reading Time: 1 Min. Book Marks logo Kelly Link’s The Book of Love , Calvin Trillin’s The Lede , Diane Oliver’s Neighbors and Other Stories, and Ed Zwick’s Hits, Flops and Other Illusions all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to you by Book Marks , Lit Hub’s home for book […]

The Legacy of Beatrix Potter

The Legacy of Beatrix Potter

Reading Time: 1 Min. Rachel Syme Staff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. So far, 2024 has been light on blockbuster films—most studios wait to release their juggernauts until late spring, so as not […]

A Feminist Retelling of the Medusa Myth, for Middle Graders

A Feminist Retelling of the Medusa Myth, for Middle Graders

Reading Time: 1 Min. Credit…Jennifer Dahbura MEDUSA (The Myth of Monsters, Book 1), by Katherine Marsh When I teach contemporary rewritings of Greek mythology, I begin with a warning: The world these myths conjure is especially brutal for women. We read fiction about Iphigenia, sacrificed by her father, Agamemnon; about Clytemnestra, duped into sending her […]

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