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November is the month of two huge memes – Novellas in November (#NovNov25) hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and Nonfiction November with five hosts! Add to that German Literature Month XV hosted …| AnnaBookBel
Dates: 10/27-11/2 Host: Heather @ Based on a True StoryTitle: Your Year in NonfictionCelebrate your year of nonfiction. What books have you read? What were your favorites? Have you had a favorite topic? Is there a topic you want to read about more? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November? Looking back over … Continue reading Nonfiction November 2025: Your Year in Nonfiction| Book’d Out
We all have authors whose every book we read. For me, Judith Hermann is one of those authors. She’s best known for her short stories but has also written novels and now, finally, her long awaited first memoir. Or rather a series of lectures on life and writing that reads like a memoir. We Would … … Continue reading →| Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
November is the month of two huge memes – Novellas in November (#NovNov25) hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and Nonfiction November with five hosts! Add to that German Literature Month XV hosted …| AnnaBookBel
Your body is not your own. You are not in control. It no longer wishes to serve you. In the span of a day, you’ve gone from fully able to a state of helplessness and pain you were not prepared for.…| trust not the eye; make of your meat an imaging device
We’re thrilled to share that this morning, on Thursday, October 23, the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction was announced, and included Baldwin, Styron, and Me […] The post BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
Want to get new excerpts, musings, and more from The Bibliophile right away? Sign up for our weekly online newsletter here! *** The introduction to Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide Last week […] The post The Bibliophile: A reminder of their humanity appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
We know that these feelings are unreasonable. We ideally know that comparison is the thief of joy. But it also doesn’t change the fact that people feel these things. I think that’s why I feel some comfort in having this story out there, because it’s necessary to discuss these themes.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Are you feeling overwhelmed by rising oppression and autocracy around the world? Whether you’re fighting a dictator or just trying to improve your neighborhood, Blueprint for Revolution is a worthw…| Unsolicited Feedback
Looking back over the process of a book can be really informative. So much is forgotten over the course of the several years it takes from idea to published. Here’s an interesting post from debut author Danna Zeiger on the journey of REWRITING THE RULES: HOW DR. KATHLEEN FRIEL CREATED NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR BRAIN RESEARCH … More Behind the Scenes: “The Evolution of a Picture Book Biography from Sub to Pub” by Danna Zeiger, Ph.D.| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
A review of author Stephen Harrigan's first essay collection since 2013.| Southern Review of Books
Where do I stand? First of all, I was disappointed. I was amongst The Salt Path's biggest fan, being fond of hiking and loving stories about real people overcoming adversity. I felt cheated. The post Nonfiction at its worst? The Salt Path Controversy appeared first on For Book Lovers and Random People.| For Book Lovers and Random People
The winners of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Nonfiction were announced earlier this week at what looked like a wonderful event. The post Sunday Post: Women’s Prize and Reading Catch-up appeared first on For Book Lovers and Random People.| For Book Lovers and Random People
The cold winter days have offered a good excuse to stay indoors and read. I have been in the mood for nonfiction recently and with one exception, I have thoroughly enjoyed it.| For Book Lovers and Random People
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson My rating: 4 of 5 stars “You might want to take them pants off your head before you go in.” Wise advice, and from the very first chapter a sure sign that me and this book just may get along. I suppose this is the quintessential Bryson, … Continue reading “Notes from a Small Island” by Bill Bryson| books are life
A girl rides west toward a new stepfather, a yellow bedroom, and a life she hadn’t asked for. June 1972 The train pulled out of the station in New Orleans at dawn and headed west over Lake Pontchartrain on a long stretch of track that led to Benson, Arizona. Our new home. At least for […]| Reckon Review
Looking for a new series to sink your teeth into? Melissa A. Watkins recommends All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu, the first in a new SF thriller series with a realistic tech near-future and a hopeful, but honest commentary on our current world.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
There’s an established trope that magic can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing, and I thought, what if I really push that? What if someone without the proper training is a live wire, shocking everything and everyone around them? In that case, you don’t want these kids to know magic until they are emotionally ready to control it.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Be sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's great content.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Space is such a fertile ground for interesting world-building, and I thought this idea of characters living in asteroids to be a fascinating and also somewhat plausible world-building tool. I didn’t think so much of where to place them, so much as I knew where they would be based on the kind of people they are. I always think character first, and everything is in service to that.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Raised in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, known for the uncanny woods one oughta avoid at night, I know fear. Growing up, fireside ghost stories (i.e., oral horror storytelling) felt too real. At church, I swore the shadows . . . lingered down corridors.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
As I mentioned in my post about dragon book and podcast recommendations, I wanted to read The Penguin Book of Dragons. It’s not that commonly available, but I had a free afternoon so I went to the library to get this book and a few others. The Penguin Book of Dragons collects texts about dragons… Read More Book Review: The Penguin Book of Dragons edited by Scott G. Bruce The post Book Review: The Penguin Book of Dragons edited by Scott G. Bruce appeared first on Eustea Reads.| Eustea Reads
Hello friends! After posting my update, I pretty much disappeared and basically, after a great honeymoon, I came back and immediately plunged into work – we are adopting new ERP software so that has pretty much consumed my waking hours. But I had a great trip and managed to read lots of books, so now… Read More Book Review: Dress Codes by Richard Thompson Ford| Eustea Reads
If you struggle to look up from your phone or step away from your desk, read this practical guide to productivity and creativity.| BOOK RIOT
We’re in the home stretch on reading challenges, so here’s an update on where I am. I still have a lot to read in three months, but I would like to close these out. If you’re working on any of these challenges, I’d love to hear what you have left or what you’re struggling with.…Read more →| The Book Stop
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. – Laurie Halse Anderson We are once again in the midst of Banned Books Week, a week in which we celebrate our right to read. According to the American Library Association, “a challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of … Continue reading Read Dangerously: Banned Books Week 2025→| Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub
A couple of weeks ago an essay that Hallie Rubenhold had presented for the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2020 as part of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Lecture came to my attention, and I slid it into the TBR. The Problem with Great Men hits on so many of the things that are bothering me professionally these days and reminds me why I got […]| faintingviolet
Are you looking for a primer on how the enforcement of what became known as the Hayes Code on the movie business in the 1930s impacted what came before and after 1934? I might have the bo…| faintingviolet
Bestselling nonfiction writers provide expert insights on the finer points of writing nonfiction, plus more from Writer's Digest! The post Expert Advice on Writing Nonfiction appeared first on Writer's Digest.| Writer's Digest
Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.| Longreads
It’s almost time for Novellas in November, hosted by Cathy of 746 Books and Rebecca of Bookish Beck. There are no categories this year, although participants are invited to start the month with a My Year in Novellas retrospective looking at any novellas read since last NovNov, and finish it with a New to My … Continue reading →| booksaremyfavouriteandbest
Want to get new excerpts, musings, and more from The Bibliophile right away? Sign up for our weekly online newsletter here! *** An introduction to Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers by Marcello […] The post The Bibliophile: Welcome to work but not to remain appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
We’re thrilled to share that on September 25, 2025, the shortlist for the 2025 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize was announced, and included Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and […] The post CROSSES IN THE SKY shortlisted for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize! appeared first on Biblioasis.| Biblioasis
We always try to pull out the stops in our birthday issues, and this year is no different. There’s no real theme this month---although regret and reparation loom large---but every single piece is out to squeeze your heart or slap you across the face.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
In an interview, the iconic drag queen Sasha Colby said something like---drag for her was a tool to empower people who had been disempowered. And that sparked the essence of Courtney’s character and her journey.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Advice for living abounds in the latest essay collection from poet and jazz musician Joy Harjo.| Southern Review of Books
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Daphne: I’m confused. I thought “Whatnots” were for Wednesdays… but Yummy Human has a Whatnot post and it’s still Tuesday. She said some…| Teagan's Books
A British war correspondent recalls his experiences during the Great War.| Standard Ebooks - Newest Ebooks
Author Andrea Wang’s latest book is beautiful in text and art, and at the same time heartbreaking and inspiring. The path to the heart of WORTHY: THE BRAVE AND CAPABLE LIFE OF JOSEPH PIERCE s…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
Welcome to Issue #152 of Nightmare Magazine! And if you’re a subscriber reading this on release day, then happy May Day---a day where many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the high point of spring, a day of fertility and growth.| Nightmare Magazine
Adam-Troy Castro recommends a movie and two new books. Find out what he's excited about!| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
A Meditation on the Witch The witch is a shapeshifter, a marvelous creature who evolves with the times. Those who fear her have burned her at the stake, hung her body from the gallows, and drowned her in the sea—none of which were able to properly kill her because the witch is more than a […]| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Growing up in a small town in southern West Virginia, I’d always heard that a man wasn’t supposed to show his feelings. I mean, think about it, the Mountain State in those days was where generations of males put on hard hats, work boots, and brave faces before heading into the bowels of the earth to mine coal.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
I think this is a story about thinking too much. Stop thinking and you become less human, more like an animal; that involves scars, and predators, and living outdoors, and for certain animals it sometimes involves eating garbage.| Nightmare Magazine
To celebrate the publication of Beacons In The Darkness, we’ve polled Agate staff for some of their favorite memories involving their local newspapers. David Schlesinger, Publishing Director Hometown: Portland, Oregon... READ MORE The post Community Newspaper Memories appeared first on Agate Publishing.| Agate Publishing
Ramsey Lewis died yesterday. He was a Chicago son and unsurprisingly generous enough to write a foreword for our book Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life. Join us here at Agate in celebrating... READ MORE The post RIP jazz pianist and Agate contributor Ramsey Lewis appeared first on Agate Publishing.| Agate Publishing
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction by Leanna Renee Hieber My rating: 1 of 5 stars I knew this wasn’t working for me about two chapters in, but I stubbornly stuck with it just to confirm that I’m not the right reader for this book. Sometimes perseverance doesn’t pay off. In the interest … Continue reading “America’s Most Gothic” by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes| books are life
I had the strangest dream last night. I was running through a Beauty and the Beast-esque castle while being chased by a cartoon policeman. A life-long lucid dreamer, I immediately knew this was a dream, not because the law was on my heels in a Disney-inspired castle, but because I was too tall—a miraculous six feet—and also deaf. I was carrying a small grey backpack with a frozen baby inside it. Despite being rock solid in its frozen cage, the baby was somehow alive. My mission was to tak...| Defenestration
Like many of the American musicians who helped create rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, The Everly Brothers were instantly influential, popular almost from the beginning of their careers, and doomed to be misunderstood in the light of 1960s rock. Their country-rock synthesis was partly a product of the technological and songwriting capacities of Nashville,… The post Musical Pioneers first appeared on Chapter 16.| Chapter 16
"Ghosted" by Alice Vernon investigates 200 years of ghost hunting and our enduring quest for the paranormal.| The Longest Chapter
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein's influential 'Abundance' makes the FT/Schroders shortlist, as does Eva Dou's 'House of Huawei.'| Publishing Perspectives
It was 98 degrees with 90% humidity, and my thighs were sweating through a beige knee-length pencil skirt. He had to choose yesterday to kill himself, in the middle of summer, during a pandemic. It felt like a final fuck you. One last gag from a man who’d always had a dark sense of timing. […]| Reckon Review
I wrote the bulk of the first draft while I was on a cruise ship and experiencing the deep ennui that comes from being on a cruise ship. So that’s intrinsically buried deep in the DNA of this narrative in many mysterious and arcane ways. The second piece of inspiration is that a couple of years ago, on social media, I had seen an image of a mermaid in a bathtub with a bunch of tally marks written on the wall, and that painting really struck me. It’s always fun to take things seriously, an...| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
If you immediately understand this phrase, and you get it on an emotional level, then these stories will probably speak to you in ways that they might not otherwise.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
I wrote “The Girlfriend Experience” while attending Clarion West last year. I masochistically put my hand up for Monday critiques, so it was one of the stories in our very first day of workshops. In retrospect, it might’ve been a subconscious litmus test to find out which of my classmates were prudes. (As it turns out, none of them; Clarion West Class of 2024 is wall-to-wall perverts, and I could not be happier.)| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
ELI RODRIGUEZ FIELDER The gods must have been giant children squeezing drip sandcastles from their palms, back when this land was at the edge of a sea. This used to be a mouth, I say. It feels impossible that this peculiar landscape should suddenly emerge among farms and Dairy Queens.| The Common
Sometimes a title just does it for you. A Libertarian Walks into a Bear – as a title – makes me smile every time. Make of that what you will. Its author’s writing style is also sly and occasionally funny which works to balance out the serious nature of a lot of what is being […]| faintingviolet
Notes from an Island, by Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä (Illustrator) Anteckningar från en ö was first published in 1996. Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal in 2021. I read it in the Tin…| Words And Peace
I had a dream about my son, S, a few days after he was born not breathing. I was in the bathroom and his brain was a monster and it was dying. Or it was being eaten by a monster and dying. I never …| Rejection Letters
Here’s another fantastic book from one of the Kid Lit for Growing Minds members! In this post for educators and librarians, author Lisa Rogers, a former library teacher, shares how WOODY’S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS can be used as a springboard for students to practice a growth mindset. GIVEAWAY! … More Especially for Educators: “Who Helps You Shine? Embracing a Growth Mindset to Reach Your Dreams” by Lisa Rogers| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
It’s quite amazing when you find primary sources that provide the seed, or acorn, that allows you to tell a story that for a while seemed lifeless. Check out this great post from debut author…| Beth Anderson, Children's Writer
I was so happy when I got a copy of this book. I learned about it from the author and booktuber Jen Campbell a few years ago and was able to get myself a copy shortly after. GENRE Nonfiction — memo…| Zezee With Books
Inherent in saving face, there’s a backdrop of protectionism. A fear of losing your community, in losing everything. There’s pressure to be fastidious and appear too powerful to mess with. Many families, mine included, have a history of keeping their heads on a swivel to survive war.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
There’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon from 1954 called “Baby Buggy Bugs.” Maybe you’ve seen it? It’s the one with the extremely short bank robber who disguises himself as a baby and tricks Bugs into taking care of him while he searches for his lost loot.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
If there’s one thing I learned this summer, it’s that we need each other more than ever. There are so many terrible things happening, and there’s no way we can survive all of them without a helping hand. We must invest our time and our energy into our relationships.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
The thing that got me excited to write this story is the jaded and familiar voice of Bangkok taxi drivers. They’re my biggest driver, literally. Taxis decorated for spiritual protection aren’t such an uncommon sight either. This voice became irresistible when I was playing Cyberpunk 2077.| Nightmare MagazineRSS - Nightmare Magazine
Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir by Craig Mod My rating: 3 of 5 stars I thought I liked walking, but compared to Craig Mod I might as well be a sedentary sedimentary rock. Mod takes it to new heights, putting dozens of kilometers per day walking a Japanese peninsula, walking with passion and … Continue reading “Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir” by Craig Mod| books are life
The title of this post shows that I haven’t kept up-to-date in reviewing the books I have read this year! The three books in this post are by traditionally published authors. Two are fiction and th…| Sue's Trifles
John McPhee Truly astonishing that it took me this long to read this book; it’s thoroughly right up my alley.1 To start with, it’s McPhee, and he’s my favorite nonfiction author. And after that, it’s about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and proliferation… with a solid digression into nuclear rocketry, which has long been an interest of mine.2 Nothing in the rocketry section was new to me—I’ve read up enough on that to the point that everything was familiar, although the persona...| Grey Patterson
Explore new books by Joan Silber and Kiran Desai, along with other notable recent releases in this literary roundup.| The Longest Chapter
All animals have blood hearts Omnia animalia sanguine* corda All animals have blood in their hearts Sanguine is no longer meaty. We have squeezed out the blood. Lobbed off ventricles and arteries to leave just an outline <3 Our animal hearts once bloody / bloodthirsty now tamed to optimism. * Sanguine, adjective 1: marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic 2: bloodred...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
One morning, as we ate sandwiches—mine had apples on it—a hawk appeared outside the hospital cafeteria window. Or no, it was not a cafeteria, it was a cafe. Which was meant, perhaps, to conjure a sense of normalcy. You could order paninis and mochas and bowls of soup. My husband and I sat there talking over our sandwiches, about what I can’t recall. The words are lost to me now, and yet it feels like only yesterday. When my mother arrived for her visit she immediately burst into tears. ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I know the sweet shape of sugar, tang, and the soft sweep of cat, mao. I know wo e le, I’m hungry; I know wo bu zhi dao, I don’t know. I know wo yao, I want; wei shen me, why; dui bu qi, I’m sorry. Last March, I learned the word ai zheng, cancer. My parents, of course, knew the word already, as native speakers who immigrated to America when they were in their late twenties. My father’s English was decent—he’d come here for grad school on scholarship—but in Chinese he was king. H...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
According to the US census, more than one-quarter of older adults live alone, one out of five men and one out of three women Nearly half of women over 75 live by themselves. 1. I live alone. Husband dead. No kids. My dog can’t hear anymore. God is the only one left who might be listening. He doesn’t answer, not in words. I can’t go out to lunch with God. He’ll never bake me a birthday cake. I can’t ask Him to fix my laundry room light or the gate that won’t stay shut. He’s no...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
In Tokyo, they measure death in hours. Nako’s began with stomach pains at a wedding reception—her own. The cake hadn’t been cut yet, but something else was already dividing inside her, multiplying with the precision of a cell gone wrong. Three hundred and twelve days from “I do” to “Time of death:” The numbers feel important somehow. Like if I could solve them, arrange them differently, I could find the equation that explains how a body becomes a battlefield so quickly. Twenty-n...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’m nine. I stand behind a leather couch in the larger area of the daylight basement everyone calls the rumpus room. It’s Easter Sunday and cool and hazy outside but not enough so that my grandfather will need to ignite the fists of coal already mounded in the grate of the fireplace. Three of my cousins play Monopoly. The dice on the game board fall like whispers. The broader family argues and chats upstairs: My mother and sisters, my grandparents—the six who live here along with me—a...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Click here to jump to recipe. Otherwise, notice the tippy milk crates stacked two-high under your five-year-old feet, the white chef’s apron knotted behind your neck, draping down past your shoes, between you and the oven door of the ten-burner stove in your grandfather’s diner, the two flats of eggs, thirty to a flat, ready for you and the egg and parsley fritters you’ll sneak pieces of later under your grandfather’s approving wink, those back burners turned off so the eggs don’t o...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Your mother won’t forget you right away. There will be plenty of time to prepare logistically and emotionally for this event. You’ll become accustomed to the usual symptoms over the course of months or years: forgetting appointments, tripping over the names of acquaintances, the first missed birthday. When she begins to fumble overlong with her seatbelt, you will buckle it for her without overthinking the sad poetry of this role reversal. Next come the bills. Then the pills. You will noti...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
(after Hanif Abdurraqib) I remember guns were a private thing we only used at camp beginning with the potshots my cousins and I took at empty Miller Lite cans the white cans with the red emblem and the time David yelled at me after I discharged the lever action BB gun across the water because I didn’t know the pellet could skip all that way and hit someone and I remember the smart satisfying crack of the pump action .22 rifle with little recoil and while it was thrilling it was safe and it ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
He switched the headlights off and urged her up, into the night air. “Go on. Stand up,” he said, pointing at the Toyota’s open moon roof. The car rolled slowly down a country road, somewhere deep in the valley of quakes. Soon enough she would be too old for this. “Really?” the little girl asked, wide-eyed. He reassured his daughter that he had everything under control even as he knew this wasn’t true. Beyond the green glow of the dashboard, the stars seemed to hang over the Chol...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Yesterday, I couldn’t find my passport, not that I needed it, I wasn’t going anywhere, hadn’t gone anywhere in ages, not since my partner and I decided to pack up the house we’d lived in for ten years and move to another (smaller) house, in another (larger) city, with car alarms and sirens and helicopters circling our neighborhood every Saturday night, a world that’s turned mine upside down (this is what I tell myself when I can’t find my keys or my phone or the pair of glasses I ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I keep a catalogue, a mental inventory. There are mothers who paint portraits of cats dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte and mothers who fall asleep drunk on patterns for XXXL pajama pants, and mothers who mouth “fuck you” to their daughter in the backseat when they get lost in the family car and the daughter is trying her best to calm everyone down. Mothers, man. Every time I meet someone’s mother, I think: Fuck. I’m glad my own mother’s dead and that I never knew my mother after I was ...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Against a backdrop of spruce trees at the far end of a small beach, a large boulder squats at the edge of the bay. Its top half is dry and pale. The lower half is damp and dirty-bronze. It’s too big to be jostled by the tides. In the foreground of this photo, dozens of smaller stones lie half-buried in sand. Beyond the boulder, a dead spruce has been partially uprooted. Its bare branches look brittle against the other, still upright, lushly-needled trees. From the photo, it’s impossible t...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’m on a miniature riverboat or a Chinese junk, or a wooden houseboat with a paddle wheel. I’m captain and crew. The inlet is crowded with vessels from earlier ages of sea-going vessels: hollowed out canoes, reed boats, a schooner, a pinnace. There’s an old dock and a pier and it’s crowded with vendors hawking their wares, but I can’t tell what they’re selling, and I don’t care. I have to take a piss, desperately. There’s nothing more important than that. As my boat floats clo...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Dad answered and put me on speakerphone, then placed a plastic plate divided into five colored sections in front of mom at their kitchen table and said, it’s Laura, time for your morning medicines; I said, Mom, pick up the biggest oval white pill in the center of the plate and she said, “which one?” and I said the biggest oval white pill in the center of the plate, and she said, “I didn’t know it was my job to take it,” and I heard her lift the glass of iced water, so I read aloud...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Buying baby socks and three onesies and one newborn outfit on the way to the appointment where the fetal doppler told us you were dead, the same newborn outfit I now see in the box on the closet floor every day when I drag out a sweater. My parents driving across five states to stay with our four-year-old who would have been your sibling, his hand waving out the car window when they drove him to preschool the morning we left for the hospital, as if waving you goodbye. Canceling the baby books...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
The Start of It A friend of D’s wife G says there’s been a bad accident. “That’s all I know,” she says, “except that it happened on Rte. 15 and Laurel Road.” She lowers her voice as if she doesn’t want to be overheard. “D is in surgery right now as I’m telling you this. G is at the hospital. Their kids are on their way.” A Bit of It Hours later, a posted photo of the accident site on Facebook shows one car destroyed, the front end crushed, the rest damaged by fire. D’s...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
I’ve been hanging around a lot of elderly folks recently, very elderly, and I don’t know what to say to them. I am so much younger. The techs put me on a completely different treadmill way off in the corner (at one point I am actually running), and on totally different resistance settings on the cardio-bike.| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
Jeremy B. Jones’ most recent work Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries will come out in September 2025 with Blair Publishers. Cipher follows Jeremy’s fourth great-grandfather’s encoded writings while simultaneously grappling with the author’s own role in his family, particularly as a parent. This book offers a raw, honest look at the role of […]| Reckon Review
Maybe her philtrum is intact. The skin between her nose and lip a gentle slope, leading to a rosebud smile. She could have nursed from her mother’s plump breast with a strong suck, no whistling holes in her cat’s mouth. At school, perhaps Dawn held hands with her at recess instead of luring her into […]| Reckon Review
If you’re looking for a quick, absorbing read with a lot more depth than you’d expect from a novelette, check out Novic by Eugen Bacon.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
When I sat down to write “Apeiron” I had a decent sense of what I wanted it to be. A lot of the thinking about the story happened off the page, over years. I knew I wanted it to feel like a fable, but with more modern elements. I knew I wanted to expand on creation myths and delve into the psychology of gods. I knew I wanted it to be dreamy. What form all of that would take was the part I was least sure about. I figured I would work that out as I went.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
We’re supposed to take care of one another, empower and uplift one another, hold one another accountable, show interest in one another’s histories, present experiences and dreams for the future, keep the home we share safe and clean for all of us who live here now and will live here in the future.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Feeling contemplative or in the mood for something poignant? Chris Kluwe recommends Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura and translated by Yuki Teijima.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Be sure to read the editorial for a rundown of this month's great fiction.| Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine
Discover how Elite Author Justin Chase redefines leadership by emphasizing value and collaboration over mere results.| selfpublishing.com : The #1 Resource For Self-Publishing a Book
Our review of Devoney Looser's new scholarly work on novelist Jane Austen, "Wild for Austen."| Chicago Review of Books
These memoirs by Black celebrities share their journeys to becoming the icons they are today, and what they had to persevere to get here.| BOOK RIOT
Rainer Maria Rilke’s "Letters to a Young Painter" explores how art, cats and the paradox of possession illuminate the creative life.| The Culturium
In this fabulously written book, Robert Macfarlane journeys to rivers in three very different landscapes -- the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the city of Chennai, India, and the wilderness of northern Quebec -- seeking answers to the question are rivers alive and what would it mean if they were? Continue reading →| Unsolicited Feedback
Sixty years later, I often find myself deep within our den in my dreams. The post The Lost Dens of Leicester by Sharon Tyers appeared first on Little Toller Books.| Little Toller Books
