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In their latest writing contest, Dictionary.com spotlights some haunting prose We love Dictionary.com for the vast store of ways they...
In their latest writing contest, Dictionary.com spotlights some haunting prose We love Dictionary.com for the vast store of ways they...
I had love expectations for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It is based mostly on the...
Ever wonder what you've got to look forward to? Has your favorite author inked a deal to bring their books...
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
From Flavorwire: Ben Blatt of Slate put together a great post on the adjectives, adverbs, and sentences that popped up...
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
The grammatically awkward in music, via Twitter Grammarians, beware. Over on Twitter, Patricia Smith—poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, and author—posed the...
For unagented writers seeking representation, be sure to check out the Twitter-based pitch event, #PitMad, where writers tweet a 280-character...
The National Book Critics' Circle, which honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature, will...
Born on this day in 1936, actor, director, and film icon Robert Redford—and in case you missed it, Redford, a...
We were thrilled to learn that LeVar Burton, actor and reading advocate, is podcasting classic and contemporary short stories. The...
We love this recent column from Lincoln Michel, a practical inventory of all the business points every writer needs to...
Looking for new titles to expand your TBR list? World Literature Today has just posted a list authored by the...
Phase 1, in most states, has already begun. People are rushing to beaches and stores. Some have already hurried to...
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri "How do you clothe a book?" is the how this small, but powerful...
There are many axioms that get tossed around writing advice columns and beginning writer's workshops. Show, don't tell is a...
SCI-FI/FANTASY Author of THE WOLF OF THE NORTH trilogy and THE SOCIETY OF THE SWORD trilogy Duncan Hamilton's DRAGONSLAYER, the...
New York Times’ Aptly Named “The Daily” Podcast Delivers Consistent High Quality Back in 2016, during the height of the...
One of the reasons I jumped at the chance to attend the recent NerdCon: Stories convention was the opportunity to...
Fun news! Penguin Random House has announced that they have won the bidding war, and will be publishing books by...
In September 2010, author and all around goddess Mary Robinette Kowal (The Glamourist Histories, Ghost Talkers) took a month off...
In an Entertainment Weekly interview published this week, Man Booker prize winner Marlon James opened up about the epic fantasy...
While the variety shows and special events were fun, and the panels and workshops were informative, while being around a...
It was my distinct pleasure to be able to attend the 2nd Annual NerdCon: Stories convention last weekend at the...
Well, another NerdCon: Stories convention has come and gone (held October 14 and 15 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), and once again,...
Thirty-five inches of rain in four days. That's how much rain has fallen in Louisiana in this last "episode." The...
To wrap up National Library Week, we revisit an essay from 2013, where a library book can be more that...
In honor of National Library Week, we give you a follow-up to Sharon's essay yesterday about being addicted to requests...
~ * ~ In honor of National Library Week, we at LitStack are running some of our favorite essays regarding...
April 10 - 16 is National Library Week, and this year's theme is "Libraries Transform", reminding all Americans that today’s libraries are...
Did you like the weird and provocative British television series Black Mirror? (Of course you did!) Do you adore Neil...
After "sitting on the news for over six months", author Victoria Schwab excitedly announced on Facebook on Tuesday that the...
So, when I took the parcel I was going to send out for the first day of the 2016 A...