For bookish Tumblrs, I suggest you start following Awesome People Reading, Writers No One Reads, and CoverSpy.
Looking for Some Literary Tumblrs?
Censoring an Iranian Story
Recommended Reading: Iranian novelist-in-exile Shahriar Mandanipour talks about censorship, religion, and love in Little Village.
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Project Book Deal
There are reality TV shows for aspiring designers, singers, and chefs, so what about writers? The Italian reality show Masterpiece will pit writers against each other in competition for a book deal. As judge Giancarlo De Cataldo said, “The book is dying, and we must do everything we can to save it. Even a talent show.” We expect a lot of dramatic crying at typewriters.
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Carving Out a Legacy
Recommended Reading: On Raymond Carver's birthday, his brother James stopped by Electric Literature to share his memories of what it was like growing up with the man behind such works as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Prison Prose
What inspired Wally Lamb's latest novel, We Are Water? Part of it came from his experience teaching writing at a women's prison in Connecticut for the past 14 years. He spoke to The Missouri Review about what it's like to teach "the incarcerated wounded" and how they have influenced his work. "With my fiction, I’ve never been afraid to go to the dark places, but I think the women have made me more daring."
O’Connell on Shields
Our own Mark O'Connell has reviewed How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields in this week's New York Times Book Review. "When you read David Shields, the first thing you learn is that he takes literature very seriously."
I would like to add:
Housing Works Bookstore, http://housingworksbookstore.tumblr.com/
Books Matter, http://booksmatter.tumblr.com
Books I Just Read, http://booksijustread.com/
Great finds, Tiffany.
I’ll tack on:
Bookshelf Porn (this IS safe for work, despite its title), http://bookshelfporn.com/
Proustitute, http://proustitute.tumblr.com/
Slaughterhouse 90210, http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/
NYPL, http://nypl.tumblr.com/
Dostoyevsky, http://dostoyevsky.tumblr.com/
McNally Jackson, http://mcnallyjackson.tumblr.com/
Also these publishers and magazines have good ones:
W. W. Norton, http://wwnorton.tumblr.com/
A. A. Knopf, http://aaknopf.tumblr.com/
Hobart Pulp, http://hobartpulp.tumblr.com/
NYRB Classics, http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/
LARB, http://lareviewofbooks.org/
The Missouri Review, http://themissourireview.tumblr.com/
Scribner Books, http://scribnerbooks.tumblr.com/
The Paris Review, http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/
Thanks for mentioning my tumblr “Writers No One Reads”! I’m embarrassed by the lazy name (at least I deleted the “f*ck yeah” after the first day), especially when learning of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 90210.
What about a literary tumblr of short stories from an aspiring writer who’s too easily enticed by the instant gratification of followers’ Likes to pursue real publication elsewhere? Does that count?
http://paintedfictions.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is a platform that encourages quick, image oriented scroll-down browsing anyway, but it is encouraging to follow the New Yorker and The Atlantic on it…makes me feel like I have a way closer relationship with them than is realistic!
The Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org) has consistently marvelous content. It’s a great and vital literary venture, though I don’t think it will be a Tumblr for much longer, since they’re supposedly launching a new site soon.