A Rastafarian memoir for fans of Educated, a final girls thriller, a love letter to bookstores, and more of today's best book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-07-02 15:05:00 UTC ]
It's a book in a library that helps a young girl break free of the repressive and conservative world her parents raise her in. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
Pop culture feeds on romantic couplings, but we all know the truth about who keeps us alive. Our friends, what would ever we do without them? It is passionate platonic friendship that concerns Lilly Dancyger in her second book, First Love: Essays on Friendship. A collection of personal and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2024-06-06 11:00:00 UTC ]
If you're in the mood for a raucous graphic novel with perfect summer vibes, we got you. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-05-01 11:30:00 UTC ]
“I took refuge in the public libraries early and began a life-long love affair with them, one which has sustained me ever since.” Stephen McCauley’s love letter to the places that made him a writer. | Lit Hub Hisham Matar, Aube Rey Lescure, Nathaniel Stein and more take the Lit Hub... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-01-09 11:30:07 UTC ]
In 1926, with the General Strike looming and the right warning of a Bolshevik revolution, the BBC found itself in a dreadful dilemma. Writer Jack Thorne on why he turned this into ‘a love letter to people in authority’Jack Thorne is a furiously busy scriptwriter and, although he’s celebrated for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-06-05 07:00:22 UTC ]
The acclaimed science-fiction writer turns his hand to nature writing in a book that’s part hiking journal, part history lesson Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-21 11:00:28 UTC ]
Interviews Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s astonishing debut novel, The House of Rust, winner of the inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize, arrived in October as if on a magical wave, imbued with an assortment of creatures—human and animal, real and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-11-15 21:42:08 UTC ]
Writer Emma Forrest is switching from Bloomsbury to Weidenfeld & Nicolson with a new memoir, Busy Being Free, which is billed as "a love letter to being alive or alone". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 05:07:04 UTC ]
Cassava Republic is to publish Unbury Our Dead, a literary novel by Mukoma Wa Ngugi, described as "a love letter to beauty, music and the imagination". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-14 07:38:11 UTC ]
A National Book Award nominee's new children's books for Easter 2022, Matthew Paul Turner adds more kids' titles, podcaster Faitth Brooks has "a love letter to Black Women' in the works, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
The latest addition to film historian David Thomson’s opinionated take on the film industry is notable for what it says — and what it doesn’t. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-12 07:00:00 UTC ]
A “love letter to all the Black dancers that have paved and continue to pave the way”, Amber Barbee Pickens’ coloring book showcases stunning illustrations that also serve to educate about Black history in the arts. Learn more about the notable and inspiring historical figures from Blooming in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-23 05:00:00 UTC ]
Aged 15 I got a Christmas job at my local bookshop in Battersea so I could save to go interrailing. My parents’ bookshelves were brimming with mostly Black writers: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, Terry McMillan, and I was surrounded by ‘consciousness’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-30 21:25:59 UTC ]
Quercus is publishing a new book by cycling pro Geraint Thomas, Mountains According to G, described as a love letter to the sportsman's favourite climbs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 06:51:27 UTC ]
How to write a millennial character: Emma Jane Unsworth wades in where lesser mortals dare not go. | Lit Hub A love letter to The Catcher in the Rye: Mary O’Connell on her favorite book and its conflicted legacy. | Lit Hub Thirteen ways of looking at flash fiction: Grant Faulkner on the infinite... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-21 10:30:03 UTC ]
ERIN KHAR’S TENDER, at times desolate, yet boundlessly hopeful memoir Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me is, in many ways, a love letter to her oldest son, Atticus. Startled by a story he’d heard on the news about a successful dermatologist who had died of a drug... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-25 20:00:40 UTC ]
LOS ANGELES–BASED AUTHOR Mark Z. Danielewski recently published a strange picture book called The Little Blue Kite. The project marks an unexpected pivot from his most recent experimental quintet, The Familiar: Volumes 1–5 (2015–’17), which Danielewski described as a “love letter” to his home... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-14 20:00:12 UTC ]
The former defense secretary on what guided his decision-making over four decades in the military. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-24 12:19:31 UTC ]
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Ad Age sat down with some of the brightest minds in advertising and marketing to discuss some of the bravest and most talked about ideas of this year, some of which also scored big Lions last week. One of the most celebrated campaigns... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-06-24 17:00:00 UTC ]