Before George R. R. Martin was famous for his leather hats and his creation of the sexy/bloody fantasy series, A Song of Fire and Ice (and his continuing struggle to finish writing A Song of Fire and Ice), he was penning serialized novellas that…

When the winners of the Mystery Writers of America's (MWA) 2019 Grand Master award were announced on Nov. 27, writer Attica Locke recognized a familiar name: Linda Fairstein. Locke, whose novel Bluebird, Bluebird won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best…

There is a specific kind of way people look at you when they learn you're from Ohio. It's a look I've learned well, having spent my formative years in Cleveland and my college years in rural central Ohio. As the opioid epidemic has pushed its way…

Last night, iconic Chilean author Isabel Allende took the stage at the 2018 National Book Awards to accept The Distinguished Contribution to American Letters award — and she asked for an encyclopedia to stand on, told her own origin story as an…

There’s something about autumn that makes me crave poetry. Maybe it’s residual, first day of school nostalgia; maybe it’s that pesky seasonal affective disorder creeping in and begging for the emotional immediacy of a well written stanza. Either…

In response to the White House's decision to revoke CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass, J.K. Rowling has taken to Twitter, posting a chilling quote from 1984. The Harry Potter author retweeted a video posted by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, which…

It's the mark of a good writer to create a work that stands the test of time. Head into any library, any high school English class, and you'll almost certainly encounter the works of "the greats" nestled on the bookshelves: Jane Austen, Maya…

It's become a common refrain on social media: You counter a post about a mass shooting, a police shooting, or threat of a devastating executive order with "VOTE" or #GoVote or "Oh my god please, I'm begging you, vote." It absolutely makes sense.…

It's a Tuesday night in New York City's East Village, and all around Abby Adesanya, young women are moving in closer. Some sit on the floor of the bar, others perch on tables or crane their necks above the crowd. Adesanya takes a deep breath, leans…

Listen up, true crime fans: Killers of the Flower Moon is coming to the big screen, and Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are the ones bringing it there. Get ready for some dramatic lighting, spooky scoring, and a lot of close-up shots of Leo's…

It seems that recently women writers who tackle terror, violence and gore are pushing further into mainstream literary discussions. Check out these 10 female horror novelists you definitely need to be reading — because Stephen King isn't the only…

When the upcoming Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House launches on Oct. 12, fans may be compelled to track down the inspiration, the revered 1959 Shirley Jackson novel of the same name. But be warned; the ending of The Haunting of Hill House…

There's something about the calendar turning from September to October that makes us inexplicably into getting really, really, really scared. Like, hide under the covers, sleep with the lights on, jump at the slightest floor creak scared. And we've…

Another year, another Narnia adaptation. On Oct. 3, Netflix announced they would be resurrecting C. S. Lewis' beloved book collection in a parcel of films and a series. It's hardly the first time a big screen (er, in this case, small-er screen)…

On any given day in the United States in 2018, nearly 2.3 million people are incarcerated. Our country is the largest jailer in the world. On September 27, the National Book Foundation announced the establishment of its new Literature for Justice…

As autumn pushes the last bits of summer into the past and Halloween grows closer, our contemporary obsession with "witches" is renewed. People love to talk about witches, write about them, build long running television shows around them. And it's…

For diehard fans of the Game of Thrones books, the past few years have been... frustrating, to say the least. The last entry in the Song of Fire and Ice series, A Dance with Dragons, hit shelves nearly seven years ago. The plot of the award-winning…

No matter the subject — or the intended audience — J.K. Rowling, perhaps better known, in this instance, as crime author Robert Galbraith, is an expert at world building. Even if the world is the seedy underbelly of contemporary London and not…

The power of the National Book Awards rests in its simple mission: to honor the best books in America. Now in its 68th year, the National Book Awards honor the brightest in fiction, nonfiction, young people's literature, poetry, and works in…

It's the bookworm dream: being able to cruise through multiple books at the same time. I mean, not literally at the same time. But to be like Rory Gilmore, with a bus book and a lunch book and a book of poems when you're in a poetry kind of mood and…