While we celebrate queer literature and history all year long at Lit Hub dot com, we also love a good book list. This year, in honor of Pride, we reached out to some of our favorite librarians, booksellers, and authors and asked them about the queer books they find themselves recommending over... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-24 08:52:38 UTC ]
Lee is set to appear in conversation with Lynn Nguyen from the Los Angeles Public Library. The live stream is set for Tuesday, July 5th at 1 PM ET. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
He was best known for his semiautobiographical first novel, “In the Castle of My Skin,” which he wrote at age 23. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-21 01:26:51 UTC ]
Forefront Books and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives are teaming up to form Frederick Douglass Books, a publishing imprint meant to “establish a pathway for Black and Brown authors” into the publishing industry, the two organizations announced in a press release last week. The imprint... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-06-16 13:04:40 UTC ]
The 75-year-old writer has penned more than 300 titles, sold more than 500m copies and is worth an estimated $800mThe bestselling author James Patterson has apologized for saying white male authors face “another form of racism”.In an interview with the Sunday Times, Patterson said white male... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-06-15 18:35:13 UTC ]
“I absolutely do not believe that racism is practiced against white writers," the bestselling author said. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-06-15 06:32:10 UTC ]
“It’s even harder for older writers," Patterson, whose net worth is estimated to be $800 million, told the Sunday Times. "You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-14 14:28:52 UTC ]
The author, who is white, told British newspaper The Times that job difficulties were "another form of racism." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-06-13 08:03:37 UTC ]
Savor the mastery of "The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka," "533 Days," "The White Room" and "The Lure of the Unknown." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-01 14:00:37 UTC ]
The sixth installment in the AAPI Communities in Conversation series, featuring Malaka Gharib, author of 'I Was Their American Dream,' is now set for Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at 1:00 pm ET. Register here. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Nina LaCour's first novel for adults, "Yerba Buena," follows a promising and complicated lesbian love story in the mold of Sarah Waters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-05-26 13:00:31 UTC ]
Sisters confront racism with humor, a fantasy novelist delves into short stories, a military history expert salutes the civil rights movement, and a movie star's memoir goes behind the scenes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Art of Losing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) by French novelist Alice Zeniter has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, a prize which comes with a handsome glass trophy and the world’s largest purse for a single novel published in English—a whopping €100,000. Nominations for the Dublin... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-24 16:21:57 UTC ]
She spent decades campaigning for social change, fighting to limit air pollution in New York City and to rethink conventional yardsticks for economic development. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-23 23:59:08 UTC ]
She was accused of ‘betraying motherhood’ when she was revealed as the author of the Guardian’s Living With Teenagers column. Will her novel about a child with addiction issues reopen old wounds?Few writers have published and been damned with quite the ferocity Julie Myerson was back in 2009 for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-21 08:00:14 UTC ]
Being fired as an advertising executive freed him to write a blistering memoir about his Southern family and an erotic novel that became a best seller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-05-21 00:03:50 UTC ]
As fiction editor, he helped mold the stories of generations of writers. As a sportswriter, he was enshrined in the writers’ wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-20 21:24:22 UTC ]
His books about the Great Chicago Fire and America’s first epidemic were Newbery Honor winners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-19 22:43:48 UTC ]
His 1975 novel, "Beyond the Bedroom Wall," was considered among the best of its time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-17 02:04:35 UTC ]
Like William Faulkner or Thomas Hardy, and not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Edith Wharton loved some milieus too much for just one story. In its setting and characters, The Old Maid is quintessential Wharton, the New York-born author who wrote fifteen novels and novellas and became the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-12 08:51:03 UTC ]