10 Questions for Hwang Bo-reum, by Michelle Johnson Interviews [email protected] Tue, 02/20/2024 - 10:01 Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was published on February 20 by Bloomsbury. In this independent bookshop in a residential neighborhood in Seoul, several characters find connection and work through life’s big questions. Q: Reading this book creates some of the comfort I feel upon entering a bookshop, which is where I like to shop for books. What do brick-and-mortar bookshops offer over online shopping? A: When we shop for books online, we’re mainly using our fingers and eyes. But in a brick-and-mortar shop, we use something else too—our legs. We walk to browse the shelves, and that’s what I love about physical book shopping. For those who’ve spent time weaving among the bookshelves, poring over the titles, you’ll know what I mean. It’s a lovely thing to do, and when we see a book that catches our eyes, it’s nice to be able to read the foreword, the synopsis, or sometimes we may just want to flip to a random page. Sure, some online bookshops offer an e-sample too, but in a brick-and-mortar bookshop, you can browse beyond the limits of the sample, and that’s what I love about book shopping in person. In a brick-and-mortar bookshop, you can browse beyond the limits of the sample. Q: The protagonist of the novel, Yeongju, opens a... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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“I pulled the Fitzgerald off a shelf in the bookshop where I had a summer job. It was so delicious and joyful to read, I could canter through it with such bright and sudden pleasure, that it felt almost criminal.” Continue reading at The Paris Review
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A dead-end question leads your book club nowhere. Here are eight common book club questions that you might find to be dead-enders. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Sally Rooney and Richard Osman were among the winners at this year's Nielsen BookData Bestseller Awards, which celebrate titles that passed sales landmarks in print in the U.K. Nielsen reported that 199 million print books were sold in the U.K. in 2023. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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This conversation is a combination of two discussions, one on November 9th 2023 at the event of Philip Pullman receiving the Bodley Medal at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the other on November 10th 2023 at a launch event for Philip Goff’s book Why? The Purpose of the Universe at Blackwells... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Inspire conversations, get discussions going, and create fascinating experiences with the best book club books 2024 has to offer! Continue reading at Book Riot
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Here are the books that all the book clubs are reading for January 2024, plus how to join in the discussion. Continue reading at Book Riot
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The #1 book in the country, 2018’s ‘Atomic Habits’ by James Clear, is joined by new books for resolution makers, including ‘Younger for Life’ and ‘The New Kitchen.’ Plus the January Reese’s Book Club pick, ‘First Lie Wins’ by Ashley Elston, debuts on our hardcover fiction list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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'Publishers Weekly' is proud to recognize Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, and Charley Rejsek, CEO of BookPeople in Austin, as our 2023 People of the Year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Strange Scrawls, by Connor Lee McLean Creative Nonfiction [email protected] Tue, 12/12/2023 - 16:11 Photo courtesy of the authorReading a secondhand copy of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a reader encounters another consciousness in the... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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Here are the books being read by all of the book clubs this month, as well as how to take part in the discussion. Continue reading at Book Riot
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The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end. Continue reading at The New York Times
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So you picked the book club book and it turns out you hate it. Whoops! A reader offers tips for what to do next. Continue reading at Book Riot
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A founder of the St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village, he prided himself on stocking titles that were not “too popular” and stayed in business for four decades. Continue reading at The New York Times
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To celebrate the launch of the new Guardian Long Read magazine this week, join the Long Read editor David Wolf in discussion with regular contributors Sophie Elmhirst and Samanth Subramanian• The Guardian Long Read magazine is available to order now• The best stories take time. The Guardian Long... Continue reading at The Guardian
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After 28 years, a book club in Venice, Calif., has finally finished reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce — but the club's founder Gerry Fialka would argue you're never really done reading it. Continue reading at CBC
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Fei-Fei Li, author of "The Worlds I See," and Joy Buolamwini, author of "Unmasking AI," join the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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12 Books for Tolerance and Understanding (2023), by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Tue, 11/14/2023 - 14:07 For years, a prognostication by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appeared on the masthead page of World Literature Today: “These... Continue reading at World Literature Today
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I first heard of Willa Cather as a teenage bookseller in North Denver, at a new, used, rare, and antiquarian bookshop that had once been a mechanic’s garage. At the bookstore, there was an entire section of Cather’s famous works, which I had labeled meticulously with colored markers on scraps of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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These are the books all of the book clubs are reading this month. Grab a copy and learn how to join in. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Sarah Anderson, who founded the Travel Bookshop in London before becoming a writer and painter, discusses the value of quiet in 'The Lost Art of Silence' (Shambhala, Dec.). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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