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In their latest writing contest, Dictionary.com spotlights some haunting prose We love Dictionary.com for the…

  One of our favorite thing about literature is the impact it has on our…

A few years back, we discussed our favorite five literary monologues and you LitStackers seemed…

From Flavorwire: Ben Blatt of Slate put together a great post on the adjectives, adverbs,…

A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in…

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando is a fantastic park to visit for…

Fiction is an amazing tool of escapism. With it, we dive into worlds that exist…

It’s happened to you before. You’re invested in a great book, in the flux and…

The grammatically awkward in music, via Twitter Grammarians, beware. Over on Twitter, Patricia Smith—poet, spoken-word…

It’s such a wonderful time to be a writer. Years ago- not that long ago,…

Sometimes, when we love a great book, we feel the smallest bit of dissatisfaction at…

For unagented writers seeking representation, be sure to check out the Twitter-based pitch event, #PitMad,…

The National Book Critics’ Circle, which honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about…

Born on this day in 1936, actor, director, and film icon Robert Redford—and in case…

We were thrilled to learn that LeVar Burton, actor and reading advocate, is podcasting classic…

We love this recent column from Lincoln Michel, a practical inventory of all the business…

Looking for new titles to expand your TBR list? World Literature Today has just posted…

Some people, for whatever reason, rub us the wrong way. It happens in fiction as…

The books closest to our hearts become a part of us. We love them for…

It would be a superlative world if the collective “we” would fess up. We’ve done…

  Ah, books. They’re not like TV shows. Your favorite characters never age; there are…

Phase 1, in most states, has already begun. People are rushing to beaches and stores.…

There are seven stories in the world. It’s a well used maxim and not necessarily…

The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the…

Sometimes, it isn’t all that difficult to sort out what will happen in a novel.…

When you put yourself out ‘there’ as a writer, when you lasso the title of…

There are many axioms that get tossed around writing advice columns and beginning writer’s workshops. …

New York Times’ Aptly Named “The Daily” Podcast Delivers Consistent High Quality Back in 2016,…

Death and taxes, as the old cliche goes. Both are unavoidable, and while we won’t…

One of the reasons I jumped at the chance to attend the recent NerdCon: Stories…

Fun news! Penguin Random House has announced that they have won the bidding war, and…

In an Entertainment Weekly interview published this week, Man Booker prize winner Marlon James opened…

So, when I took the parcel I was going to send out for the first…

Today is Ursula K. Le Guin’s 86th birthday,  and what better day to celebrate this…

Sometimes the truest friends aren’t those sitting next to you in class or skipping rocks…

There’s something about settings of the past that just grabs us. We love the escapist…

Some authors love to pull whammies on us. Sometimes, there’s nothing better than an evil…

New York, March 10, 2014 – The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today…

Well, Litstackers, it doesn’t look like winter is going to hurry on its way. For…

                  We love this post from USA…

Angry Robot announced their deal for Worldwide Rights, for The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of…

The Bookseller is reporting that details on the second mystery novel penned by Robert Galbraith…

It seems, (in this editor’s opinion anyway), that there are a lot of really great…

We were just a bit too excited when we came across this post from Screen…

We love, love, love this awesome kickstarter from Lightspeed magazine. It’s an issue completely written…

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of getting our hands on a book we’ve been…

Yesterday, the long-silent Harry Potter fandom received a bit of a shock when news leaked…