'Powerfully intelligent' Attenberg novel to Serpent's Tail

Serpent’s Tail has acquired Jami Attenberg’s "powerfully intelligent and wickedly funny" new novel All Grown Up. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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Hutchinson has pre-empted Power Hour by podcaster, wellness professional and TEDx speaker Adrienne Herbert. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Surreal Stories of “Lake Like a Mirror” Show How Power Distorts Reality

Ho Sok Fong is without a doubt one of the most lauded Malaysian short story writers working in Chinese. Since winning her first literary prize in 2002, she has authored two story collections, namely Maze Carpet and Lake Like a Mirror, both published in Taiwan. Lake Like a Mirror is now available... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2020-04-28 11:00:09 UTC ]
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In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege

Souvankham Thammavongsa’s debut collection investigates how work shapes the immigrant identity and how erasure and invisibility lead to isolation. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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For codependents — yes, many of us are women — a book that feels like a powerful strike back

“Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls,” by Nina Renata Aron is both harrowing and essential. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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How to turn your Kindle on or off: Finding the power button

Turning your Amazon Kindle on and off is as easy as finding the power button—except the location of that button has varied from model to model over the generations. Our handy guide will help you, and we've included photos of a variety of models, working our way from the latest down to some... Continue reading at PC World

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Mirror Books acquires 'powerful and twisty' debut

Mirror Books will publish The Weight of Small Things by debut author Julie Lancaster.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces

Albert Camus’s “The Plague” and J.M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” deliver variations on a timely theme. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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The Cold War roots of Putin’s digital-age intelligence strategy

The Soviet Union’s fall shapes the Russian leader’s espionage aims, Gordon Corera writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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S&S to publish 'powerful, beautiful and personal' book from Tom Percival

Simon & Schuster Children's UK has acquired two picture books from author and illustrator Tom Percival.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hope Is the Most Powerful Arrow: A Conversation with Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng, by Tiffany Hawk

Interviews Tiffany Hawk In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surprised the world by successfully... Continue reading at World Literature Today

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How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

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S&S Children's wins 'powerful' Holocaust novel

Simon & Schuster Children’s UK has won Liz Kessler's “powerful” Holocaust novel Chasing the Light at auction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Winston Churchill and the power of English myth

In his history of the Blitz, Erik Larson buys into some of the British leader’s propaganda. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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How to work with someone who isn’t emotionally intelligent

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Whistleblower Has a Hidden Power

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Delia Owens’s debut novel has sold more than four million copies — an astonishing trajectory for any new writer, much less for a 70-year-old wildlife scientist. Continue reading at The New York Times

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“The Dolphin Letters” explores the tumultuous relationship between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, through their correspondence. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Father Gregory Boyle talks hope, homelessness and the power of kinship

Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, shared "Barking to the Choir" with the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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HQ buys 'powerful' third novel from Hello! editor-in-chief Nixon

HQ has bought the "powerful, hilarious and deeply emotional" new novel from Hello! editor-in-chief Rosie Nixon in a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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