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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 28m ago

The Seekers of Deer Creek: 1998 They are running again. Deep into the seam of the Wisconsin woods, through the gaps in the spruces and pines. Along the golden jog of the creek. They fly past the yowling of dogs, the hiss of fat catching #DailyFiction #Excerpts

The Seekers of Deer Creek

1998 They are running again. Deep into the seam of the Wisconsin woods, through the gaps in the spruces and pines. Along the golden jog of the creek. They fly past the yowling of dogs, the hiss of fat catching

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 4h ago

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare: The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike talks with 2026… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike talks with 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction recipient Gwendoline Riley about Mark Van

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 7h ago

Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama.: Some good old-fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. Pairs well with mint juleps and malaise, I think. This week, those of this opinion were darkly pleased to learn that Rachel Cusk’s… #BookNews #Events

Everything you need to know about the Rachel Cusk/Natalie Portman drama.

Some good old-fashioned literary drama is just the thing for late summer. Pairs well with mint juleps and malaise, I think. This week, those of this opinion were darkly pleased to learn that Rachel Cusk’s new novel (Life of M)

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 11h ago

Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.: Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this year’s “Booker Dozen”: a longlist of 13 books nominated for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize, which this year celebrates longform fiction written in English and… #BookNews #NewsandCulture

Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.

Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this year’s “Booker Dozen”: a longlist of 13 books nominated for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize, which this year celebrates longform fiction written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland between

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 12h ago

An English Language Debut That Translates the Violence Beneath a Neighborhood: Set during a sweltering summer in 1977 Guadalajara, a serpent girl weeps in a carnival glass box. A neighbor’s dog is dangled repeatedly from a tree. A ghost sits on a bed in a sinister house, returning night after…

An English Language Debut That Translates the Violence Beneath a Neighborhood

Set during a sweltering summer in 1977 Guadalajara, a serpent girl weeps in a carnival glass box. A neighbor’s dog is dangled repeatedly from a tree. A ghost sits on a bed in a sinister house, returning night after night. Cecilia Eudave’s The Summer of the Serpent moves among six narrators—children and adults who witness […] The post An English Language Debut That Translates the Violence Beneath a Neighborhood appeared first on Electric Literature.

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work: Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in literary history, one of the literati of the post-Toni Morrison era, trained at elite schools (Trinity School, Harvard), highly attuned to nuances of race… #CraftandCriticism #Features

What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in literary history, one of the literati of the post-Toni Morrison era, trained at elite schools (Trinity School, Harvard), highly attuned to nuances of race and gender bias. He is gifted with a wild

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump: If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a… #Biography #CraftandCriticism

On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump

If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a makeshift stage, after descending

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?: I am often challenged about what sort of canon I am engaged in the creation of—about what the totality of the books I work on means together, what translating Vladimir Sorokin plus Michael Lentz plus… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness?

I am often challenged about what sort of canon I am engaged in the creation of—about what the totality of the books I work on means together, what translating Vladimir Sorokin plus Michael Lentz plus Antonio Moresco plus Constance Debré

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t: At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia… #Biography #Features

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t

At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova a rare reprieve from years of harsh exile. Inside, daily life settled into

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer: There is one conversation I remember most distinctly from my MFA in literary translation. I was chatting with a nonfiction student about the novel I was translating at the time when she said with… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

How Translating Korean Literature Made Me a Better Fiction Writer

There is one conversation I remember most distinctly from my MFA in literary translation. I was chatting with a nonfiction student about the novel I was translating at the time when she said with a slight air of amazement, “I

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.: Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” The Fellowship of the Ring… #CraftandCriticism #Features

W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring.

Seventy-two years ago this week, the godfather of high fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, published the first novel in a proposed three-volume epic “largely concerned with hobbits.” The Fellowship of the Ring has, in the decades since publication, shifted over

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!: Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw… #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism

Valeria Luiselli, Emilee Hackney, Annie Jacobsen, and more: 20 new books out today!

Rounding out the end of the month with some long-awaited arrivals: namely, Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli finally hits the shelves. We also have a riveting and raw memoir by Emilee Hackney, and a horrifying “scenario” by Annie Jacobsen.

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 2d ago

I Made You Up Inside My Head: Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where no particle of any kind has ever #DailyFiction #Excerpts

I Made You Up Inside My Head

Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where no particle of any kind has ever

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story: Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

Sarah Stillman on Finding the Story

Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 3d ago

Why Virginia Woolf is having a moment in Hollywood.: Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations. Though her work is famously cerebral—and, well, literary—this is far from… #BookNews #Events

Why Virginia Woolf is having a moment in Hollywood.

Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations. Though her work is famously cerebral—and, well, literary—this is far from Virginia’s first celluloid rodeo.

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Bookchat@bookchat.bsky.social · 3d ago

There Is More Than One Way to Read Tarot in the French Quarter: “The Hanged Man” by Katherine Conner Roman spots the flyer on his way to read palms in Jackson Square. Taped to the window of a coffee shop, Have You Seen Me? above a photo of a dark-haired girl, maybe fifteen, sixteen. He can’t tell,…

There Is More Than One Way to Read Tarot in the French Quarter

“The Hanged Man” by Katherine Conner Roman spots the flyer on his way to read palms in Jackson Square. Taped to the window of a coffee shop, Have You Seen Me? above a photo of a dark-haired girl, maybe fifteen, sixteen. He can’t tell, doesn’t have time to stop because it’s almost dark and he […] The post There Is More Than One Way to Read Tarot in the French Quarter appeared first on Electric Literature.

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