This week's new YA book releases include a fast-paced sports story, a secret society, a road trip through Malaysia, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-11-06 13:00:00 UTC ]
The enduringly popular comic book series about gods and the afterlife gets the big-bucks, amazing-cast Netflix treatment. And it’s good. Very good, in factNothing lets me know I’m in for a week of tedious emails like being tasked to write about a big-budget fantasy series for this fun TV column.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-08-06 06:00:07 UTC ]
Randa Jarrar’s memoir Love Is An Ex-Country focuses predominantly on the years leading to the 2016 election, a period, which, like now, was characterized by heightened Islamophobia, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism. Jarrar embarks on a road trip inspired by Tahia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-05-21 11:00:43 UTC ]
“Borges and Me,” a memoir by Jay Parini, recounts a young poet’s travels with Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine master. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-18 09:00:07 UTC ]
Nearly 100 million Americans will be hopping in the car for a road trip this year, according to AAA, with most of us embarking in the summer. A recent survey commissioned by the Audio Publishers Association reveals that 74 percent of audiobook readers prefer to read them in cars. Given those... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-02 08:50:47 UTC ]
Audible has made great strides toward cornering the coveted Thirsty Parents market today by announcing that Fleabag‘s Hot Priest Andrew Scott will be narrating an audiobook collection of Beatrix Potter stories. Well played, Audible! I don’t have any children, but you better believe that my next... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-25 15:30:56 UTC ]
The CEO sets himself a personal challenge every new year. But after a bruising 12 months, what should he do next? When Mark Zuckerberg began his annual “personal challenges” in 2009, he set the bar pretty low: he dressed like an adult every day for a year. Subsequent challenges were squarely in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jochen Anderweit, publisher of German newspaper Grafschafter Nachrichten, never met his grandfather Hans Kip. But 60 years after Kip traveled around the U.S., grandson Anderweit has posted all of the old articles and blogged two months' worth of his own duplicate travels via RV back and forth... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2017-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three editors, seven days, six bookstores in five states (and the District of Columbia), 2,500 miles, and countless hours of book talk and laughter add up to Tor's first-ever editors' tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Steven Dupin, author of 'The Trans Am Diaries: A Hillbilly's Road Trip from Stand Up Comedy to Cancer...and Back Again' (Headline Books, 9780938467908), will appear on 'WGN Midday News' in Chicago on Friday, December 5. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adi Alsaid has lived something of a nomadic life…which may be one of the reasons he was inspired to write about a road trip in his debut novel, 'Let’s Get Lost.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
After his bestselling love story about finding a partner, Nicholls' new book Us will look at holding on to oneIn his hugely popular novel One Day, David Nicholls explored the search for a soulmate through the long-drawn-out love affair between Em and Dex. Five years on, Nicholls is set to take... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]