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Opinion: Roxane Gay Books should serve as model for publishing industry

June 7, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

Grove Atlantic has announced that Roxane Gay — author of the essay collection "Bad Feminist," the memoir "Hunger" and the novel "Untamed State" — will lead a publishing imprint, one...

Kiese Laymon’s ‘Long Division’ reissued: Here’s why you should buy it again.

June 1, 2021 at 11:21 a.m.

It is rare that I will purchase a second copy of a book that I already own and have read more than once, but I am making an exception with...

Biblioracle columnist John Warner had a recent crisis of confidence surrounding his habit of hoarding books, but then some readers reminded him of some good reasons why we should keep even the ones we've already read.

Opinion: Why keep all those old books? Readers answer.

May 24, 2021 at 2:46 p.m.

Walking around the house recently, looking at the books shelved and stacked various places, I had a crisis of confidence: What am I even doing with all these things? Don't...

Biblioracle columnist John Warner offers advice for how best to appreciate stories (hint: the key is to forget about analyzing them).

Opinion: Here’s one key thing to know about reading stories (no analysis required).

May 17, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

I have recently been informed that May is Short Story Month, and my feelings are mixed. On the one hand, short stories are and have been important to me as...

Opinion: Deesha Philyaw’s ‘Secret Lives of Church Ladies’ best publishing story of the year, but who else is going unrecognized?

May 10, 2021 at 12:35 p.m.

There is no better publishing story this year than what has happened with Deesha Philyaw's "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies." Published by West Virginia University Press, the collection of...

Author Blake Bailey wrote a biography of Philip Roth, which has now been taken out of print by his publisher, W.W. Norton and Co.

Opinion: Blake Bailey story isn’t about cancel culture. It’s about making the world safe for women.

May 3, 2021 at 1:39 p.m.

I wanted to write a lighthearted column about "Philip Roth: The Biography" by Blake Bailey. I thought I'd cite the omission of Philip Roth's clock radio and its role in...

Biblioracle columnist John Warner uses literary analysis to help think through the plot twist that is the COVID-19 vaccine.

Opinion: COVID-19 vaccines make for a plot twist, but how do we get on with our stories?

April 27, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

By the time anyone reads this, I will have received my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and will be just over week away from full-powered antibody protection. I know...

Megan Prokott, 23, of Chicago, shows us the photo she has chosen for her instagram account @the_spines which features books at her home on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019 in Chicago. Prokott has 29,000 followers and posts about 5 times a week. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

The rise of bookstagrammers and booktokkers: A new generation of influential readers

April 19, 2021 at 11:50 a.m.

Are "bookstagrammers" and "booktokkers" going to save book culture? Or is the center of gravity for book publicity— and perhaps by extension, book publishing — moving toward the necessity of...

Opinion: We’re not reading as much Leon Uris and James A. Michener — and that’s a good thing

April 12, 2021 at 2:46 p.m.

For weeks, I have been concerned about a particular copy of the 1976 novel "Trinity" by Leon Uris. The copy has been in a neighbor's Little Free Library for at...

Column: That’s not my Encyclopedia Brown! Charting the generational divide in children’s book covers

April 5, 2021 at 2:08 p.m.

Under normal circumstances I am not a believer in privileging nostalgia over progress. Just because something is different than it once was does not mean it is de facto worse,...

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