Podcasting is an enormous industry, reportedly bringing in over $7 billion of revenue in 2024. Podcasts are not only ...

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On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces ...

Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick is Culpability by Bruce Holsinger.

In this ambitious mystery, the prolific and popular King tells the story of a serial murderer who pledges, in a note to Buckeye City police, to kill “13 innocents and 1 guilty,” in order, we ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

Greene (Mastery, 2012, etc.) begins with a big sell, averring that his book “is designed to immerse you in all aspects of human behavior and illuminate its root causes.” To gauge by this fat ...

Featuring 322 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special Graphic Lit issue: interviews with Alison Bechdel, San Nalamalapu, Raina Telgemeier & Scott ...

Short fiction is a wordful format. Many writing classes for kids and college students exclusively study short stories because ...

Vathy, on the Greek island of Ithaca, has been Virgil Colvin’s home for two years. He left the Chicago Police Department after his wife died and has since fallen in love with Eurydice Pantakalas, to ...

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