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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it The post The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem first appeared on...

26.09.2025 10

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Tajja Isen

Are Women Allowed to Be Happy in Their Marriages?

Literature often describes matrimony as banal or repressive. That’s a shame The post Are Women Allowed to Be Happy in Their Marriages? first...

12.06.2025 10

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I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety

What if tallying up books at the end of the year was less about numbers? The post I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety first...

10.01.2025 10

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Bluesky Promised Writers Freedom. Now It’s Feeling a Lot Like Work

A bout a week after the US presidential election, I signed into my account on Bluesky, the social media platform with the strongest claim to being...

19.12.2024 4

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Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell

E arlier this year, the New York Times released their list of “The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” The splashy interactive project was equal...

26.11.2024 10

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Tajja Isen

What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?

I n mid-August, academic Leigh Claire La Berge posed a question on X about epigraphs: “do [they] ever work?” While she enjoys “finding them and...

09.10.2024 2

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Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable

F ifty pages into her debut memoir, Men Have Called Her Crazy , multidisciplinary artist Anna Marie Tendler describes a recurring dream. In a...

03.09.2024 3

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The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design

W hen Lisa began brainstorming concepts for the cover of her forthcoming non-fiction book, she wanted to give the creative team a lot of space. The...

14.08.2024 3

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Tajja Isen