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Book Club Picks for June 2022

Oprah picks a book written by a teenager, two books by Akwaeke Emezi make the list, Salma El-Wardany's debut makes it twice, and more in this month's book club picks roundup. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Hitting the Books: 'Miracle Rice' fed China's revolution but endangered its crop diversity

Feeding the planet's 8 billion people is challenge enough and our current industrialized commercial practices are causing such ecological damage that we may soon find ourselves hard-pressed to feed any more. For decades, scientists have sought out higher yields and faster growth at the expense... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2022-02-05 16:30:43 UTC ]
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Emancipatory Queerness in the Work of Roberto Bolaño, by Erika Almenara

Book Reviews   Antoine-François-Jean Claudet, [Multiple Exposures of the Moon] (1846–52), daguerreotype, 2019.47, ​​​​​Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel / Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Queer... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2022-02-01 20:37:36 UTC ]
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Did you know that Sylvia Plath wrote a rhyming children’s book about silly beds?

Sylvia Plath was born 89 years ago today. A published writer from age at, she left behind a vast catalogue of poetry and prose, especially given her short life. One of her most charming works was a rhyming children’s book written in 1959 (before either of her children were born) and published in... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-27 17:44:35 UTC ]
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21 Books for the 21st Century: The Results of Our Readers’ Poll, by The Editors of WLT

Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. We published... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-06-28 13:32:05 UTC ]
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21 Books for the 21st Century: The Longlist, by The Editors of WLT

Lit Lists Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate one book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with a brief statement explaining their choice. Now it’s your turn... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2021-03-31 20:04:23 UTC ]
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What Richard Wollheim Taught Us About the ‘Finished State’ of a Person

Germs: not only the dirty little things you can’t see but also seeds. In his sensuous and melancholic memoir, Richard Wollheim attempts to collect the seemingly insignificant, lost little kernels of his life—the most powerful impressions of his younger self—that then germinated and made the man.... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-02-02 09:48:41 UTC ]
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The Festival Five with NSK Juror Tanita S. Davis, by The Editors of WLT

Interviews Get to know the jurors for the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature in this series of short interviews. First up: Tanita S. Davis! Tanita S. Davis was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Mare’s War, which was a Coretta Scott... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2020-09-01 14:10:14 UTC ]
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Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize

A book written in a child's voice wins the 2020 International Booker Prize, its author from a devoutly religious Dutch farming family. The post Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-26 16:17:28 UTC ]
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The Discomfort of Evening has won the International Booker Prize.

The International Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. It comes with a whopping £50,000—shared equally between the author and translator. This year, the judges read 124 books in 30 languages. In a... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-26 16:02:37 UTC ]
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Column: Horror clouds every page of Mary Trump's book about her Uncle Donald

'Too Much and Never Enough,' a book written about President Trump by his niece, is dark right from the get-go. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-09 18:03:41 UTC ]
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The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is mostly women (again).

Today, the Booker Prize committee announced the shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize—awarded annually to the best book written in any language, translated into English, and published in the UK or Ireland. The prize, £50,000, will be split evenly between author and translator of... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-02 13:21:22 UTC ]
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Post-National Europe and Other Bureaucratic Fantasies: On Robert Menasse’s “The Capital”

FOR A BOOK WRITTEN in the past five years, Robert Menasse’s The Capital, published for the first time in the United States last month in a translation by Jamie Bulloch, feels strangely dated. In the time it’s taken the novel to win the 2017 German Book Prize and be translated into English, the... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-11 19:00:17 UTC ]
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Re-Covered: Margaret Drabble’s 1977 Brexit Novel

More than any of the contemporary so-called Brexit novels, it’s ‘The Ice Age,’ a book written more than forty years ago, that offers the most haunting portrait of our current era of unrest. Continue reading at 'The Paris Review'

[ The Paris Review | 2019-09-12 17:14:06 UTC ]
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North Canterbury author up for best International business book award

A book written by a North Canterbury author is up for a special international business book award in London next week.  Continue reading at 'Stuff'

[ Stuff | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Detainee wins major literary prize for book written through WhatsApp

Messaging apps aren't just useful for everyday communication -- in at least one case, they've enabled an influential book. Kurdish-Iranian author Behrouz Boochani has won Australia's top literary award, the Victorian Prize for Literature, with a boo... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2019-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK to press for release of Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar

Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt says case of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is a top priorityThe foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has pledged to make the fight to release of two Reuters journalists imprisoned by the Burmese government a top priority for the coming year.Last week, Hunt met the human rights... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poetry on proposed third Heathrow runway to Nine Arches

Independent poetry publisher Nine Arches Press is to publish Heath, a new book written in collaboration between poets Penelope Shuttle and John Greening. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UFO Sightings Inspired These Eerie Photos

When Maria Lax discovered a book written by her grandfather about UFO sightings in her hometown, she knew she had to learn more. The post UFO Sightings Inspired These Eerie Photos appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Desmond Elliott prize reminds us that authors need long-term support

With her prizewinning debut, Claire Fuller could be following in the footsteps of Ian Rankin and Hilary Mantel who found success with their later work – but only with the support of her publisherAs one of the judges for the Desmond Elliott prize for best debut novelist this year, I couldn’t help... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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