As Mrs Dalloway turns 100, here’s a guide to the greatest hits of one of the most celebrated British novelists of all time. Read more
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Year: 2025
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?
Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms. Read more
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12 Famous Writers From History and Their Favorite Cocktails
In researching the drinks of choice for some of history’s greatest writers, I realized that many of the cocktails they once enjoyed now offer a fascinating glimpse into their individual personalities, preferences, and even their writing style. Read more
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Announcing the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards Winners
The 2025 Literary Awards conferred nearly $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, poetry, essay, translation, and more, these books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence. Read more
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The Hobo Handbook
The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page reads. An older edition bears a similarly anodyne title: From Birmingham to Wendover. Both are a misdirection, intended to keep the wrong people—cops, journalists, nosy normies like me—from realizing what they’re holding. The Crew Change Guide is a set of best practices and guidelines for hopping freight trains anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. A “crew change” refers to a train’s personnel shift, a brief window of opportunity for those brave enough to take it. In the heist movie, this is that ten-second gap after the night watchman clocks out and before his replacement takes over. For a train hopper, it’s a rare chance to clamber up a wagon undetected. Read more
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The Polish Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
In September 1940, the Polish underground resistance fighter Witold Pilecki undertook a monumental act of bravery: He volunteered to allow the Nazi forces occupying Poland to arrest him, in the expectation that they would incarcerate him in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Read more
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Pulitzer Prizes 2025: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
“James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” Read more
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Winston Churchill’s London Bachelor Pad Is Selling for £3.75 Million
Churchill moved into the Mayfair apartment in 1900 when he was 25 years old, leasing it from his cousin Charles “Sunny” Spencer-Churchill, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, according to Wetherell, which is marketing the property along with Clifton Property Partners. Read more
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Winners of the 2025 Edgar Awards Announced
MWA is proud to announce the winners for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024. The 79th Annual Edgar Awards were celebrated on May 1, 2025 in New York City. Read more
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RFK Jr. Said Autistic Children Will Never Write a Poem. He Ignores the Rich History of Neurodivergent Poets and Writers.
There’s a remarkable corpus of poetry written by autistic people, who have also written novels, plays and virtually any kind of literature imaginable. The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project catalogs 133 collections of poetry authored by autistic individuals, which represents only a fraction of the work created by autistic poets throughout history. Read more
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