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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Knockout 2025 YA Debuts, Excellent Nonfiction, and More YA Book News: Let's wrap up 2025 with a look at the YA book news that's dropped in recent weeks, including several updates on forthcoming adaptations. bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

6 Regency-Era Novels that Aren’t Romances: These Regency-era set novels look past the time's glitter to show the reality of social classes, capital punishment, and the Napoleonic Wars. bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This isn't a set from Harry Potter — it's Gladstone's Library in Wales, the *only* residential library in the UK. You can literally sleep among the books. #Library 📍Hawarden, UK

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The First Step in the Writing Process: Be Kind to Yourself: Often I am asked—as all writers are asked—what is my process. I think we all want… lithub.com/t... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

What the Work of Literary Production Reveals About the Resonance of History: The work: at first the work is difficult. Later, the… lithub.com/w... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How Mr. Darcy Became One of Jane Austen’s Most Memorable Creations: Begun in the 1790s, Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813. Its context is… lithub.com/h... #CraftandCriticism #Features

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How Delayed Desegregation Deprived Black Children of Their Right to Education: Carlton Terry was twelve the year Prince Edward County schools… lithub.com/h... #Features #History

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

An Integral Part of the Story: A Short History of Short Fiction by American Women: Women writers from 1830 to 1926 turned to the… lithub.com/a... #CraftandCriticism #Features

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther: The letter he carries is dated March 1878 and brings the news that there is nothing to be done: the whaleship Dromo… lithub.com/n... #DailyFiction #Excerpts

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Carvell Wallace on Changing Perspective: This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down,… lithub.com/c... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Race Made Radioactive: How Yuko Tsushima Fused Multiracial Identity and Military Occupation: In the author’s note… lithub.com/r... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: It’s not all good. I mean, I adore being a clown, regardless of anyone else’s feelings about it. But there are times when it wears me down to a… lithub.com/s... #DailyFiction #Excerpts

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

On the Colonial Power Struggle That Would Give Birth to the City of New York: New York is all about water. Reasonable people may disagree with… lithub.com/o... #Features #History

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Must-Read Daredevil Comics If You’re Watching Daredevil: Born Again: Are you watching the new Daredevil: Born Again series on Disney+? While you’re waiting between episodes,… bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

America’s Declining Literacy Rates and the (Alleged) End of Reading: Plus, Roxane Gay and Saeed Jones in conversation, Jeff interviews Scaachi Koul, and the Plutarch Award… bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Banned Historical Fiction Books: The goal of censorship is to control what people think by controlling what they can read and learn. Book bans target and affect the most at-risk members of society. That's… bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A Small Press Book We Love: Children of the Ghetto by Elias Khoury: Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to… lithub.com/a... #LiteraryCriticism #NewsandCulture

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Literary Locomotives: Nine Books Set on Trains That Show How They Changed the World: Why set a novel on a train? The… lithub.com/l... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

8 Science Fiction Novels by Authors of Color for the End Times: Are these the end times? Who knows! Settle into this current quasi-dystopian reality with recent… bookriot.com... #ScienceFiction #DystopianFiction

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

7 Comics About Trauma: When I first told people I was working on a comic about trauma, I sometimes got funny looks. I can’t be certain, but I think the correct translation of this type of… electriclite... #Comics #Trauma

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The London bookstore just named the most popular in the entire world: The most popular bookstore in the world, an aspirational lifetime reading plan, and more of the… bookriot.com...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trump is trying to destroy libraries.: Image from the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections The hogmen and shock troops of the Trump-Musk administration… lithub.com/t... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Backlist’s Back, Alright! 5 Great Older SFF Books To Revisit: What older SFF book do you want to read again soon? bookriot.com... #BacklistBooks #SciFi

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trump’s Latest Attacks on Publishing, Libraries, and Schools: We’re less than two months into Trump’s second presidency, and the negative impact he and Elon Musk have… bookriot.com... #Trump #Publishing

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How Interviewing Celebrities Helped Me Write My Debut Novel: There is typically (hopefully!) a moment during a celebrity magazine interview when… lithub.com/h... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“Never Boring, Never Easy.” How the Writing Life Goes on Amid the Chaos of Publishing: How lucky, I thought, that spring… lithub.com/n... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Kristen Arnett! Amy Shearn! Emma Donoghue! 25 new books out today.: March has already been a month of manias and mind-boggling political… lithub.com/k... #CraftandCriticism #LiteraryCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How to Meet Your Mystery: Thomas Merton on Solitude and the Soul: "It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of… www.themargi...

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.: After a thorough excoriating by Democrats who are… lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Most Interesting AI-Generated Story Yet: A provocative LLM-generated story, Percy Jackson Season three is a go, and more of the day's top book news. bookriot.com... #AIStorytelling #PercyJackson

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A Small Press Book We Love: Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton: Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we… lithub.com/a... #LiteraryCriticism #NewsandCulture

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now: What the Executive Order slashing the Institute of Museum and Library Services means, how it will impact… bookriot.com... #LibraryFunding #SaveIMLS

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: And The Winner Is…: The thrilling conclusion to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best… lithub.com/t... #Features #FullwidthSlider

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

6 Queer Thrillers to Enjoy This Springtime: Torn between her girlfriend, Magdu, and her best friend, Daphne, Finn is looking forward to a day of rock climbing ... bookriot.com... #QueerThrillers #SpringReads

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare: The video starts with ominous, staticky music interrupted… lithub.com/w... #Features #NewsandCulture

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life: By the summer of 1913, it had been nearly a year since Kafka and… lithub.com/w... #Biography #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“The False Friends” and “Braggart,” Two (Mean) Poems by Dorothy Parker: “The False Friends” They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my… lithub.com/t... #Features #FictionandPoetry

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

5 Essential Books For Better Understanding African Folklore: The birthplace of the human race. The oldest inhabited landmass on the planet. Ancient.… lithub.com/5... #CraftandCriticism #Features

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“So Long to the Rearview”: The next curve is a tricky one. Too much pressure on the gas and the van could tip. Not enough, and the truck a cigarette-length from your fender will send you… lithub.com/s... #DailyFiction #Excerpts

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Helen Garner on Henry Green’s Party Going: The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize… lithub.com/h... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Terry Brooks is Retiring from Writing, Delilah S. Dawson Will Write Shannara: Terry Brooks published the first book in the epic fantasy series Shannara in 1977. After writing dozens of… bookriot.com... #TerryBrooks #Shannara

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Playing With Paradoxes: Utilizing Time Travel as a Part of Plot and Process: I graduated from the University of Cambridge in June… lithub.com/p... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

When an (Extremely Prolific) Author Shares Your Name: One evening I went to Nob Hill Foods, the large grocery store near my house, to try to find ripe… lithub.com/w... #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers: The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five… lithub.com/l... #CraftandCriticism #Features

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

12 Book Club Picks for March 2025 To Start Your Spring Reading: Welcome to spring and a new round of “what did the book clubs select this month”! I have a roundup ... bookriot.com... #BookClub #SpringReading

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques: “Is there a way to end on a positive… electriclite... #DisabilityAwareness #ChronicIllness

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Nicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan Collaborate, and More News For Libraries: Hey there, cool library cats. I have a mega roundup of important links and… bookriot.com... #NicholasSparks #MNightShyamalan

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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Sarah Lyn Rogers Turns Ugly Feelings into Poetry: Cosmic Tantrum opens on incantation: “If in place of a mentor you had a hostile mirror” begins the… electriclite... #Poetry #CosmicTantrum

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