10 Great American Novel Contenders From the Past Decade
This morning, we woke up to a poll over at Publisher’s Weekly‘s blog, PWxyz, asking readers to identify the Great American Novel. Fun! While we have no beef with the books on PWxyz’s list, we did...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers each recommend the cultural object or...
View Article‘Red Moon’ Author Benjamin Percy’s Favorite Wolf Stories
Next week, Benjamin Percy’s great werewolf novel, Red Moon, will come howling into bookstores with a fury, possibly destroying everything in its path. Percy’s novel manages to be blockbuster-style...
View Article10 New Must-Reads for May
Another month, another pile of books accumulating on your bedside table, threatening to spill over while you sleep. This list will not help with that. But in case, despite all else, you’re looking for...
View Article10 Essential Neo-Noir Authors
What is neo-noir fiction? It’s contemporary dark fiction. It was built on the backbone of classic noir and hardboiled fiction, but it’s evolved to be so much more than that. It is a genre-bending...
View Article20 Highbrow Books to Read on the Beach This Summer
For even the most seasoned of book nerds, a trip to the beach can raise some difficult questions. After all, you don’t want to waste your precious vacation minutes reading something you’ll forget by...
View Article50 of the Scariest Short Stories of All Time
It’s that time of year again, when the pumpkins come out, the fake cobwebs are hung and we feel that dormant urge to be chilled, thrilled and spooked to our bones. Get out your flashlights, because a...
View Article50 Great Genre-Bending Books Everyone Should Read
Sometimes, it seems as though the arguments about genre — be it poetry vs. fiction, fiction vs. nonfiction, literary fiction vs. SF vs. fantasy vs. mystery vs. vs. vs. — will never end. So why not just...
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