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The Best English-Language Literary Blogs

...also know as  LitBlogs. (That's Literary Blogs ...not Lite Blogs.)

Journals, Diaries, Rants and Raves...

...Of Bookworms, Bibliophiles, "Booksluts", Bibliomaniacs

...and other Cyber Literati.

(Listed here in Random Order.)

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ARTS & LETTERS DAILY    by Denis Dutton   Denis's daily blog about "philosophy, literature, language" and whatever strikes his fancy.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS    by Phil Gyford    If a 17th century Lodon writer could blog, it would look like this.

BOOKSLUT     by Jessa Crispin   A legendary literary blog. (Does Jessa actually read in the nude?)

BOOKFINDER.COM JOURNAL  by Anirvan Chatterjee  A window into the fertile brain of the Bookfinder guy.

PHILOBIBLON  by Natalie Bennett    A London journalist blogs about women's history, books, and current events. (Philobiblon is also the title of the landmark medieval book about book collecting by a British bishop who was accused of spending too much money on books.)

COLLECTED MISCELLANY  by Kevin Holtsberry and David Thayer   Literary "News. Views. Reviews. Interviews."  

THE ELEGANT VARIATION  by Mark Sarvas  A Los Angeles novelist and "Scotchgard Enthusiast" blogs about literary stuff.

GOLDEN RULE JONES  by Sam in Chicago  Literary events and discussion, in the Windy City.

GRUMPY OLD BOOKMAN  by Michael Allen   A British blogger writes about books and publishing. (Just don't say anything to make him grumpier.)

THE MILLIONS  by Max, Andrew, Emre, and Patrick   U.S. and Canadian guys write intensely about books.

MUSINGS FROM REDWING MARSH  by Judith from Boston  The journal of a "book-crazed individual."

BEATRICE  by Ron Hogan  Smart literary news from New York.

BOOKANGST 101  by Mad Max Perkins  A senior executive in a major publishing house maintains an award-winning literary blog.

BOOKNINJA by Peter Darbyshire and George Murray   Book Guys from Canada do "inverse omnibus" book reviews.

BUZZ, BALLS & HYPE  by M. J. Rose  A novelist / book reviewer blogs fast "because there are over 175,000 books published a year."

CHEKOV'S MISTRESS  by Bud Parr   Literature is his mistress.  His wife is his Siamese twin.

MAUD NEWTON  by Maud Newton    A Manhattan editor blogs on ...despite her "pallid complexion."  Maud is "the unquestioned doyenne of the literary blogosphere." (Denver Post)  (But don't mention that to Jessa Crispin.)

TINGLE ALLEY  by Carrie Frye  "Litblogs  (literary blogs) are the way to gate crash, to make yourself a part of a conversation you'd never get to be part of otherwise."

RAKE'S PROGRESS  by Traver Kauffman      "No sacred cows here" (Traver)

THE LITERARY SALOON by Michael Orthofer   Literary news and views with an "occasional tirade."

GALLEY CAT by Nathalie Chicha   A New York writer blogs about books and publishing.

OLD HAG  by Lizzie Skurnick  A Baltimore writer does "book reviews, sundries, culture, and intelligensia."

BOOKSQUARE by Kassia Krozer  All about authors, books, publisher and NaNo Talk.

I LOVE A GOOD MYSTERY by Tania with an I    "I love forensic psychology and criminology."

STORYTELLING by Dr. Rosina Lippi  An award-winning writer and professors writes about "storytelling on the page and off of it."

BOOKLUST by Patricia Storms  A cartoonist and former peanut butter addict muses about books etc.

CONFESSIONS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC MIND  by Sarah Weinman  Sarah is an editor and columnist who is really into crime fiction.

MOORISH GIRL by Laila Lalami   A Moorish girl does literary news, views, and interviews in Portland, Oregon.

BRANDYWINE BOOKS by Phil Wade  Phil is a Georgia Chattanoogan who writes about books "with occasional diversions about coffee and tea."

CONVERSATIONAL READING by Scott Esposito  Scott says he blogs so that people won't be "forced to listen to me in the lunchroom."

JAMES TATA  by ...James Tata  An electrical engineer / technical writer in the Pacific Northwest discusses his "recent enthusiasms."

MOBY LIVES by Dennis Loy Johnson and Becky Cowser   Dennis and Becky's slick-smart, black-and-blue Litblog.

THE MUMPSIMUS by  Matthew Cheney   Matthew's "displaced thoughts on misplaced literatures."

SCRIBBLING WOMAN by Miriam Jones  Miriam teaches English in New Brusnwick, Canada.  She blogs about "books, c18, detritus, parenting, poaching, print, sf, or writing."

THE READING EXPERIENCE by Daniel Green  Daniel is an ex-Missouri writer living in Maine, where he does this "literary literary weblog."

READY STEADY BLOG by Mark Thwaite  Mark has been doing book reviews and commentary here since December 2003. "