One of Ours by Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1923. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available […]
I woke up to an inbox full of self-publishing delights that dropped overnight. Back in the Smashwords days, if you didn’t want your furry erotica pseudonym publicly linked to your middle-grade adventure pseudonym (for example), you had to have separate accounts. This was their own policy, not a shady workaround some scammer came up with.
UPDATE: As of April 11, 2026, I can now can see 1- and 2-star reviews on Amazon. They did not send me an “oops, our bad, you’re actually approved” email, so there’s no explanation for the change. I’m leaving this post up for posterity because who knows who’s still being blinkered, when it might happen
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1922. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free
The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919. The prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free
UPDATE: Now on YouTube, only 5 months later! (I’m not embedding video here because it spoils my “no tracking, no cookies” policy.) This text is the script for that video, so you’re missing nothing if you stick to one medium. On winter solstice, the birds disappeared, and the mist arrived. The inhabitants of Nebulah quickly
I’ll be relying on Project Gutenberg for a fair amount of my reading in 2026. As it says at the top of their home page, “Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks,” which is a number too large to browse without getting fatigued. (That’s how I “watch movies”: scroll for 20 minutes,
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. The prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free
I’ve been using StoryGraph for a full year, so I have book-nerd stats. Books Read I read 74 books and 28,075 pages in 2025. One book was a paperback; the rest were ebooks. Did Not Finish DNFs aren’t included in the “books read” count, but pages read before quitting are included in pages read. I