The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...
Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...
The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...
Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, genre blending literary fiction, nonfiction and other genres. Smith uses Twitter to make connections, and believes being an ...
It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...
TikTok's popular BookTok channel has been buzzing about a new genre called "romantasy'' that is spawning whole sections in bookstores. Jeffrey Brown visited the stacks and talked to author Rebecca ...
As any consummate reader knows, the more you read, the less, you realize, you have read. So much has been created. So much is waiting, ready to be consumed at the library or bookstore or in a ...
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