Browsing: Books & Fiction
Kiyosaki carries $1.2B in debt, Beowulf Sheehan remembers McCarthy, and booksellers debate whether reading is ending. A literary week in full.
Fall jackets yield receipts, ticket stubs, a 2021 dollar, and a striped rock — small objects that tell the kind of stories short fiction aspires to.
Mike Bove’s three prose poems in Electric Literature hold grief still through frozen owls, dying friends, and a seal pup on a Maine beach.
The 2026 Hugo Awards were presented at the 84th WorldCon in Los Angeles. Alix E. Harrow, Amal El-Mohtar, and John Scalzi were among the winners.
From Amazon destroying books for AI to Jason Arday’s death at Cambridge, the week of Aug 24, 2026 in books refused to stay comfortable.
Amazon destroys physical books after scanning them for AI training. Plus: biogossip novels, Tommy Orange on identity, and a self-published mystery writer who beat the odds.
Sarah Polley directs Billie Eilish as Esther Greenwood in a new Bell Jar adaptation, with Carey Mulligan co-starring and Ontario locations standing in for 1950s New York.
Amazon destroys books for AI training, Jason Arday’s memory gets debated, and Le Guin, Thoreau, and Miéville anchor a dense literary week.
August 21’s literary world spans grief essays, debut fiction, Twain’s publishing history, and the inexhaustible argument over Phantom of the Opera.
“Range” follows Gunn through a dusk encounter with neighbors Brit and Jenny. A quiet, precise short story about observation, adolescence, and what goes unsaid.