Wide-ranging in their subjects and sensibilities, these collections aim to celebrate past literary trailblazers while also capturing the current moment and serving as reminders of what poetry can offer its readers in uncertain times. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
There is so much to complain about in the book world at the current moment, from Amazon’s stranglehold on book retail to the increasing usage of generative AI to replace writers and artists of all kinds. But you’re reading this column on Thursday; I turned it in on Tuesday, Election Day. I have... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-07 12:52:28 UTC ]
Picador has acquired Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel, a "novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-19 00:13:35 UTC ]
Doctorow’s speculative fiction may not have predicted our current moment, but it’s still savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-10-13 13:00:00 UTC ]
Renowned poets Jericho Brown (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner) and Nikky Finney (2011 National Book Award winner), formerly student and teacher, reunite to address the current moment of uprising and solidarity in the face of anti-Black violence, in a visceral conversation about art, identity, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-09 17:00:01 UTC ]
Michael Christie’s novel also delivers an uncanny metaphor for our current moment Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-30 15:00:00 UTC ]