From ‘all the books I read this month’ pictures on Instagram to Goodreads targets, we are forgetting to read for pleasureHow long will it take you to read this article? It would almost certainly take me longer. On average, adults read about 240 words a minute, but I always exceed those pesky... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-12-31 09:00:13 UTC ]
How to bake black pepper snowballs… vengefully. | Lit Hub Food Costumes, plotting, mise-en-scène, monologues: Lyle Jeremy Rubin on how war becomes a (deadly) performance. | Lit Hub Memoir They lie to us, they weigh about as much as a hardback copy of Infinite Jest, and other fun facts... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-04 10:30:24 UTC ]
Books on sleep, education, American history, world growth and one novel made the cut this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-10 16:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir from actress Felicia Day, a favorite of Joss Whedon—and 2.5 million Twitter followers—debuts at #4 book in Hardcover Nonfiction. Plus ‘Devil in the White City’ and ‘Infinite Jest’ each get a boost from Hollywood, and new books from Jennifer Weiner and America’s Test Kitchen open strong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
In what looks to be the graphic publishing literary event of the year, Seven Stories Press will publish the first volume of the Graphic Canon: Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons in April, the first of a three-volume anthology of graphic interpretations of the world’s literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]