Can We Truly Be Free of Our Past? A Conversation with Wendy Chen, by Xixuan Collins Interviews [email protected] Mon, 04/29/2024 - 15:10 An epic family saga that spans over one hundred years and two countries, Wendy Chen’s powerful, lyrical debut,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-04-29 20:10:46 UTC ]
Imprint’s Green Ideas series begins with 20 short books by writers from Rachel Carson to Greta Thunberg it believes are ‘the classics that made a movement’From Greta Thunberg to James Lovelock, publisher Penguin Classics has come up with a “new canon” of the environmental literature, which it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-26 07:00:42 UTC ]
In this week’s episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Jenny Offill and literary and film critic James Plath. First Offill shares her reaction to the insurrection and attempted coup at the Capitol last week, and discusses her latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-14 09:49:01 UTC ]
It kept happening. On Twitter, on Facebook, in your WhatsApp chats. The bookish people you know, the introverts, declaring that lockdown would give them more time to read. Or the people who know you, and know that you might be bookish, declaring that you’d got a head start on them in terms of... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-05-29 15:15:00 UTC ]
The real question at the heart of this novel is how a woman is supposed to prepare for the apocalypse when everyday life is so maddening. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-27 22:49:38 UTC ]
‘Hair Love,’ based on the Oscar-winning animated short, enjoyed a spike in sales after the awards show. Plus Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ debuts in hardcover fiction, and Harlan Coben’s ‘The Stranger’ becomes a Netflix series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
With ‘Weather,’ the novelist strays from the precepts of autofiction, even as her fragmentary style remains intact. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]