Shelby Van Pelt’s novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures, is available now in paperback from Ecco, so we asked her a few questions about writing, reading, routines, and more. * Who do you most wish would read your book? In Remarkably Bright Creatures, my main character, Tova, has a group of friends... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-29 08:58:17 UTC ]
Psychological thriller Eileen is an adaptation of the 2015 debut novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, who often writes about female loners, giving special attention to the parts of her characters that many would consider unbefitting of a leading lady. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-12-08 09:00:00 UTC ]
In this post-Fleabag world, publishing has become obsessed with the inner turmoils of messy millennials – but isn’t it time they pulled themselves together? Meet the novelists subverting the clichesYou’ve probably come across this woman: she is unfulfilled in her career, has been abandoned by at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-08 15:19:43 UTC ]
The main character in “The Lyrics” is his best friend and fiercest rival, John Lennon Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2021-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writer says they had not realised they should speak up about the title when the book was first published, but it will henceforth take the heroine’s female nameAlex Gino’s award-winning children’s novel about a trans girl, George, is being renamed Melissa, after Gino and publisher Scholastic said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-02 14:38:09 UTC ]
Yu Miri won a National Book Award for “Tokyo Ueno Station,” a novel whose main character is the ghost of a homeless construction worker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-11-27 10:00:27 UTC ]
According to UK study, just 5% of children’s books have black, Asian or minority ethnic protagonists – a small improvement from 1% in 2017Two years after the stark revelation that only 1% of British children’s books featured a main character who was black, Asian or minority ethnic, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-11 00:01:23 UTC ]
What could be better than a book about a library, or featuring a librarian as its main character? Find a book for every library lover. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-24 10:30:00 UTC ]
The author of “Mexican Gothic” offers a downloadable book club kit including a paper doll inspired by her main character. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-16 09:00:04 UTC ]
I May Destroy You skewers the weirdness of fandom and captures just how terrifying the publishing industry can beMichaela Coel’s critically acclaimed new TV series I May Destroy You (BBC One), the journey of a young woman uncovering and trying to deal with sexual trauma, is a show that I fall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-11 07:00:06 UTC ]
"Shadow of the Batgirl" author Sarah Kuhn wants young Asian American girls to see they can be the main character in superhero stories too. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-08 01:35:48 UTC ]
Penguin Random House teams with TBWA and Barnes & Noble to launch #DiversityEditions for Black History Month. During the Pequod‘s last voyage in Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick, Captain Ahab is 58 years old. Physically, he has a prosthetic leg made of whale bone, and a pale white mark or... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-02-05 09:00:42 UTC ]
This week, the author Curtis Sittenfeld tweeted that it feels like we are now living in her 2005 novel Prep—and she did not mean it in a good way. The book is set at a fictional elite New England boarding school, a place not altogether unlike Georgetown Prep, the Maryland high school that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York City looms large for debut novelist Hermione Hoby's main character, and on the Strick&Williams–designed book jacket. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Turtles All the Way Down is best-selling author John Green's first novel since 2012's runaway success, The Fault in Our Stars. While that book tackled the issue of teens with cancer, this book centres on a protagonist suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behaviour. Green,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
"It's funny, as people ask me that all the time, and I just wish I was more interesting." Min Jin Lee is talking about the similarities between herself and the main character in her 2007 debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires. Published again this month after the success earlier this year of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Children’s is set to publish a new novel from Elizabeth Wein, telling the story of Julie Beaufort-Stuart, the main character from her novel Code Name Verity, before the Second World War. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Abrams is to publish Mr Robot: Red Wheelbarrow, a book based on the journal of the main character of the US TV series. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nothing pains me quite as much as having to admit I might have been wrong about something. But news breaking last week may force me to reconsider my opinion of Dave Eggers' 2013 novel "The Circle."I don't think the book has gotten any better. The main character is still annoying and, worse, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the main section of today's print edition of The New York Times, readers will notice a whole lot of nothing on pages 9 and 10. The two virtually blank, back-to-back pages are actually an ad for 20th Century Fox's upcoming film adaptation of Markus Zusak's best-selling novel, "The Book Thief,"... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]