Staff Picks: Menace, Machines, and Muhammad Ali
Anna Kavan. Anna Kavan’s short story “Ice Storm” begins in winter, with the narrator leaving Grand Central Terminal to visit friends in Connecticut, to clear…
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Pants Used To Be a Bad Word: Critical Linking, February 11, 2020
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by Get Booked: The Handsell. “Another bad word…
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Do-It-Yourself: OUTLANDER Style
Outlander is now it its fifth season on Starz, meaning there’s another new batch of fabulous knitwear to drool over. I’ve gathered some of the…
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Make Money from Again
It began with a simple longing, born in the humid 105 degree Austin summer: I just want to wear clothes that do not touch my…
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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for February 7, 2020
Sponsored by Penguin Random House Library Marketing. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot!…
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197,539 B.C.
On Kawara, Moon Landing (detail), 1969, from the Today series (1966–2013), acrylic on canvas, three panels, each 61″ x 89″. Installation view, Glenstone Museum. ©…
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Denouement: Definition and Examples of the Literary Term
How do good stories end? In tragedy or triumph? With a wedding or a funeral? That is the question of the denouement, a literary term…
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Merry Goodman on Using Real-Life Experiences to Come Up With Story Ideas
Ever wonder how to come up with story ideas? Ask any writer and invariably they will tell you “life.” A writer’s greatest source of ideas…
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The Best Bookish Games For Your Interests
If you’re a reader and/or have befriended one, you’ve probably also played Scrabble—or UpWords or Bananagrams, for that matter. I grew up playing and loving…
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Literary Paper Dolls: Sula
Illustrations © Jenny Kroik When I was a girl, I had a friend. Some years I used honorifics and some years she was my only…
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