Can Rayne Fisher-Quann Shift from Internet Princess to Bestselling Author?
The publishing industry is hinging its hopes on a twenty-three-year-old with a Substack and a devout following. Can she deliver?
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“Made a Difference to My Whole Existence”: Why Childhood Reading Matters
Books are the platform on which everything else is built
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The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction
Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window
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Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time
Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust
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I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety
What if tallying up books at the end of the year was less about numbers?
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Why Alice Munro’s Biographer Left Her Daughter’s Abuse Out of His Book
An exclusive interview with Robert Thacker on the secret he carried for twenty years
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Are Millennials Ruining Divorce Too?
In a spate of new books, authors grapple with what separation means in the modern age
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“I Needed to Be Doing This”: When Writers Uncover Family History
Tanya Talaga and Sadiya Ansari discuss ancestors, the colonial project, and intuitive pings
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Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell
Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?
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IYKYK: When Novels Speak a Language Only Part of the Internet Gets
Every time the names of products or microcelebrities appear in a book, they prick us like a targeted ad
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