The following is from Hwang Bo-Reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop . Hwang Bo-reum wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop has sold over 150,000 copies in Korea and been sold into 9 territories. Before […]
Barbara Dee is the author of 14 middle grade novels, including Violets Are Blue and Maybe He Just Likes You . In her essay for PW , Dee reflects on her creative process and her forthcoming book, Unstuck , about a girl who struggles with anxiety and writer’s block. Every writer knows the feeling: you’re […]
We’re back for round three of the internet’s favorite drunken biweekly “news” report, Am I the Literary Asshole—the only advice column that asks you to consider the fact that BOGO wine isn’t just a lifestyle, it’s also a state of mind. Today I ask you to join me for a glass (or three) as we […]
Photo by Mark Olsen on Unsplash A California Towhee bounced across the deck, its brown feathers tufted like a baby chick’s, proud and naive-looking all at once. I sat very still, fingers poised on my keyboard, silently watching, not wanting to spook it away. I knew its name—towhee—because I had recently become obsessed with birds, […]
Writing can get kind of lonely sometimes. Not only that, but it can get stale. Sometimes we fall into a formula when we write books, or we can’t get ourselves past the first few chapters of an idea, or we’re stuck in the dreaded middle section of our novel for what feels like forever. It […]
Our writers and editors share some of their favorite bookshops in the city, including where they go to find classic fiction, art and design books, vintage editions, comics and zines, and writing in languages other than English. Freebird Books Cobble Hill A sign in the window of this shop, situated on a quiet stretch of […]
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 reviews. * Fiction Kelly […]
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 daughter to her death; […]
In four new graphic novels, the world is changing, and our heroes are making changes of their own. Near the beginning of “Wally’s Gang,” the story that takes up most of FRANK JOHNSON, SECRET PIONEER OF AMERICAN COMICS, VOLUME 1 (Fantagraphics, 608 pp., $49.99), edited by Keith Mayerson and Chris Byrne, one character, George, gets […]
The Archive of Feelings by Peter Stamm IN A 2017 INTERVIEW with The White Review , Peter Stamm remembered a “special cookie” he loved as a child. As the Swiss novelist explained: “I had the feeling that wanting these cookies so much weakened me. So I bought a whole packet and ate all of it […]
