Mureall Hebert
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She/her. Writer and editor. Tweeting about books, lit. events, writing, and chocolate. It always comes back to the chocolate.
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The European cities most written about in literature www.timeout.com/news/the-eur...
The European cities most written about in literature, ranked
One capital makes for particularly good inspo, according to this study
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November 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The European cities most written about in literature www.timeout.com/news/the-eur...
New Mr Poirot and Little Miss Marple books to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
New Mr Poirot and Little Miss Marple books to be published
Agatha Christie’s popular detectives feature in new Mr Men and Little Miss stories – Mischief on the Nile and Muddle at the Vicarage
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November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
New Mr Poirot and Little Miss Marple books to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Buy Books And Never Read Them? There's A Japanese Term For That. www.huffpost.com/entry/tsundo...
This Japanese Term Captures An All-Too-Common Experience For Book Lovers
Bookworms with a "to read" pile, this is for you.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Buy Books And Never Read Them? There's A Japanese Term For That. www.huffpost.com/entry/tsundo...
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists lithub.com/meet-the-202...
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists
The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hil…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists lithub.com/meet-the-202...
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The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
'Flesh' wins 2025 Booker Prize: 'We had never read anything quite like it' www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
'Flesh' wins 2025 Booker Prize: 'We had never read anything quite like it'
David Szalay uses spare and sparse language to follow one Hungarian-British man from his teen years through middle age. The prestigious prize honors the best English-language novels published in the U...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
'Flesh' wins 2025 Booker Prize: 'We had never read anything quite like it' www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's Skid Road led to a literary city www.cascadepbs.org/mossbacks-no...
Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's Skid Road led to a literary city
Henry Yesler's sawmill, and his unconventional marriage, helped make the city a leader in literature and gave us one of the great 20th century writers.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Mossback's Northwest: Seattle's Skid Road led to a literary city www.cascadepbs.org/mossbacks-no...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
Winner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/
Winner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/
Book Award
The American Library in Paris Book Award honors English-language books that explore French culture through original and significant ideas.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
Winner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/
Winner of the 2025 American Library in Paris Book Award americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Researchers Have Recreated A Mysterious Blue Ink From Medieval Manuscripts allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-blu...
Scientists Just Figured Out How To Recreate Lost Blue Ink From Medieval Manuscripts
The long-forgotten natural blue dye was called "folium."
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Researchers Have Recreated A Mysterious Blue Ink From Medieval Manuscripts allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-blu...
Why a beloved literary publisher is running out of a backyard shed in New Brunswick www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Why a beloved literary publisher is running out of a backyard shed in New Brunswick | CBC Radio
Gaspereau Press, a boutique Canadian publishing company and printing press, is changing hands and moving to a new base of operations — a converted garage in Keagan Hawthorne’s backyard in Sackville, N...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Why a beloved literary publisher is running out of a backyard shed in New Brunswick www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
Laurent Mauvignier Wins France's Top Literary Award For Family Saga www.barrons.com/news/laurent...
Laurent Mauvignier Wins France's Top Literary Award For Family Saga
French writer Laurent Mauvignier on Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for a 750-page family saga spanning more than a century.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Laurent Mauvignier Wins France's Top Literary Award For Family Saga www.barrons.com/news/laurent...
Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime - Electric Literature
Many people arrive looking to meet someone and enjoy a shared cultural experience
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November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Readings Might Be Turning Into America’s New Favorite Pastime electricliterature.com/readings-mig...
Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories lithub.com/reading-anne...
Reading Anne Sexton’s Rejected Horror Stories
“I do not believe in ghosts (very much)” –Anne Sexton, “Leaves that Talk” * In her 1959 letter to Frederick Morgan, one of the founding editors of The Hudson Review, Anne Sexton beamed: “I wrote th…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“I have to eat a Thanksgiving dinner with Tabitha King and if I cross a picket line to sell a book, it’s not going to be a good one.”
Lovely to see widespread solidarity with the striking workers at the British Library.
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Lovely to see widespread solidarity with the striking workers at the British Library.
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Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers
King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action
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November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“I have to eat a Thanksgiving dinner with Tabitha King and if I cross a picket line to sell a book, it’s not going to be a good one.”
Lovely to see widespread solidarity with the striking workers at the British Library.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Lovely to see widespread solidarity with the striking workers at the British Library.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The new $50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits apnews.com/article/lite...
The new $50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits
A coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund to support independent publishers and nonprofit organizations.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The new $50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits apnews.com/article/lite...
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts
A coalition of charitable foundations are creating the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute at least $50 million to various organizations over 5 years.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A new fund will route millions to the literary arts www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Unpublished, Newly Discovered Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out in 2026 www.today.com/popculture/d...
Unpublished, Newly Discovered Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out in 2026: EXCLUSIVE
Get ready to "Sing the 50 United States!" with Dr. Seuss.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Unpublished, Newly Discovered Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out in 2026 www.today.com/popculture/d...
The hitchhiker's guide to literary sci-fi: A trivia quiz! www.space.com/entertainmen...
The hitchhiker's guide to literary sci-fi: A trivia quiz!
From dystopian futures to interstellar adventures, this quiz explores the classics that dared to imagine the impossible—and the authors who made it unforgettable.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The hitchhiker's guide to literary sci-fi: A trivia quiz! www.space.com/entertainmen...
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal
Exclusive: The newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his home
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October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Aracataca, Colombia: The Source of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Genius colombiaone.com/2025/10/26/c...
Aracataca, Colombia: The Source of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Genius
The town of Aracataca, in Colombia, is where Gabriel Garcia Marquez was inspired to create his fantastic literary Macondo.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Aracataca, Colombia: The Source of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Genius colombiaone.com/2025/10/26/c...
If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists
Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier was dismissed as merely a “romantic” novelist.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award
Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
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October 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
London, Paris, and Rome Top Europe’s Most Written-About Cities: Literary Tourism Rewrites the Future of Global Travel www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...
London, Paris, and Rome Top Europe’s Most Written-About Cities: Literary Tourism Rewrites the Future of Global Travel - Travel And Tour World
Literary tourism is one of the most exciting trends in the global tourism industry, turning imagination into real-world adventure.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
London, Paris, and Rome Top Europe’s Most Written-About Cities: Literary Tourism Rewrites the Future of Global Travel www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...