Joyce Carol Oates Goes to the Rack for Norman Mailer
She knows he stabbed his wife but loves him anyway
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Author: Katie Smith
Literary Twitter: The Year In Review
Every writer embroiled in a 2021 cancellation controversy is actually thriving
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Joyce Carol Oates Falls Down a Pronoun Hole
Literary Twitter roasts 83-year-old writer for wrongthink
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Eight Books to Take You Into Fall
And, no, Sally Rooney is not on this list
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Cormac McCarthy: Still Not on Twitter
The service verified a fake McCarthy account, not for the first time
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ABA Apologizes for ‘Anti-Trans’ Title
But what about an apology for the apology?
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Authors Warn About Content Warnings in Books
Carmen Maria Machado, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and others take to Twitter to decry censorship
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Literary World Reacts to Publishers’ Striking Questionable Lines
They pulled ‘offensive’ dialogue from authors Elin Hilderbrand’s and Casey McQuiston’s best-sellers
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Easttown and Down
A Philadelphian picks apart Kate Winslet‘s accent in ‘Mare of Easttown’
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Bookstagrammers Demand Publishers Pay Up
What does the book industry owe its influencers?
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Writer Lauren Hough Targets Goodreads Reviews
Hough’s online supporters turned her debut memoir into a New York Times Bestseller
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The Saga of ‘Detransition, Baby’
U.K. Women’s Prize nomination earns anti-trans backlash
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Amazon Pulls ‘When Harry Became Sally’ and Other anti-LGBTQ Titles
The move comes after Republican lawmakers complained to CEO Jeff Bezos—which backfired.
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Where ‘Search Party’ Went To Die
A former fan wonders why the HBO Max seasons suck
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‘A Spy in the Struggle’ is No Struggle to Read
Aya de León pushes the spy thriller into 2021.
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