The goal of censorship is to control what people think by controlling what they can read and learn. Book bans target and affect the most at-risk members of society. That's not a coincidence, either. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-19 11:30:00 UTC ]
“Crucially, The Living Mountain needs to be understood as a parochial work in the most expansive sense.” Robert Macfarlane on Nan Shepherd’s uniquely poetic memoir of life in the Cairngorm Mountains. | Lit Hub Criticism “I went home and obeyed those directions for some three months, and came so... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-19 10:30:35 UTC ]
This week, the hosts discuss Black Bag, Deli Boys, and the enduring legacy of Dave Eggers’ memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2025-03-19 07:20:00 UTC ]
Among this week’s deals are a study of primarily white U.S. churches, an exploration of spiritual questions about illness and dying informed by medical research, and a guide for doubters on how to reclaim faith. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
The anthropologist and professor at Brooklyn College discusses fitness, salvation, and her new book The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Religion publishers are offering women authors’ fresh interpretations of sacred texts as well as stories from the lives of Buddhists, Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award winner remembers drinking with John Berger and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner recounts the joys of reading Halldor Laxness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
We spoke with the author and former Christian camp true believer about her forthcoming book Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation (Broadleaf, Apr.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
Paralyzing indecision is a defining feature of modern life—but these forthcoming books from Christian authors promise help at the crossroads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
While most stores in the National Capital Region are still reporting steady sales, booksellers say the impact of the layoffs of federal workers who live and work in the area are beginning to affect their businesses. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]
This year's Bologna Book Plus 'Audio Forum' will feature some 20 speakers in eight sessions across four hours on April 2. The post Bologna Book Plus: An Afternoon Forum on Audiobooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-18 21:00:38 UTC ]
An executive order slashes much-needed federal funding for these services, but you can aid the effort to save them by signing a petition or joining a protest. On Friday, President Donald Trump issued yet another executive order aimed at gutting our federal agencies in the name of fiscal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-03-18 20:00:00 UTC ]
The 2025 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer honor in the United Kingdom goes to Harriet Baker. The post ‘Rural Hours’: Harriet Baker Wins the UK’s Young Writer Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-18 19:45:19 UTC ]
The most popular bookstore in the world, an aspirational lifetime reading plan, and more of the day's top book news. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-03-18 18:30:00 UTC ]
Image from the New York Public Libraries Digital Collections The hogmen and shock troops of the Trump-Musk administration have gone after another essential and beloved mainstay of public life: libraries. Trump signed a broad executive order last Friday that puts libraries in existential danger... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-18 16:54:24 UTC ]
In a franchise filled with convoluted additions, this animated anthology feels closest to the pulpy wonder of George Lucas’s first filmsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailSince the release of the first Star Wars film in 1977, lightsabers, Wookiees and the trumpeting blare of Darth... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-18 14:00:46 UTC ]
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—which just so happens to be National Small Press Month—a Lit Hub staff member will be recommending a small... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-18 13:15:56 UTC ]
Analysis of Nielsen billings reveals how creative and media agencies fared in 2024, with more than half in both sectors reporting increases. Media agencies in particular showed some bounceback from a gloomy 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Media Week | 2025-03-18 09:30:00 UTC ]
In “Changing My Mind,” the novelist Julian Barnes presents an argument for the joys of flexibility. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-03-18 09:00:55 UTC ]
How lucky, I thought, that spring break at the college at which I teach should be scheduled the week before the launch of my second novel. I wouldn’t have to cancel any classes to make the pre-publication interviews, furious essay-writing, bookstore signings, prep for the upcoming book tour.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-03-18 08:57:06 UTC ]