Pandemic Dispatches Photo by Burgess Milner / Unsplash Winnowing down to essentials during a pandemic, a writer with too much time to think cleans out her closet and immediately regrets letting go of a sweater. We’ve all been there, right? When a sweater isn’t just a sweater and our most rigorous tasks can’t bring the relief we seek. Within weeks the plague had winnowed our world. We kept in touch with only our closest friends. We wore only our comfiest clothes. Life had been pared down to the essentials. But I had nervous energy to spare. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat. And how much CNN could you watch? So one day I decided to clean out my house. What I no longer needed, I’d either trash or give away. First I tackled the kitchen. I dusted off my cookbook shelves. Then I kept the books splotched and spattered from years of use. Tucked in the back, totally neglected, was a row of virgin reads. Not a spine was cracked or a page sullied. The Portuguese Vegetarian. The Sugar Buster. The Yeast Dilemma. Out they went! Then I opened the cabinets and assessed my supplies. Three huge serving platters, five chafing dishes, assorted warming trays and crystal candlesticks. Assorted wedding gifts had been hiding in a hutch for over forty years. A set of aperitif glasses. Shrimp forks. Tablecloths of random sizes. I got married when I was nineteen. And, of course, when you’re nineteen your ambition has no limit. The goal was to look... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2021-09-27 19:31:27 UTC ]
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Faber is to publish a "definitive history" of British pop music from 1975 to 1985 by journalist Dylan Jones. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 13:24:17 UTC ]
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Best known for his work on such Black superhero series as Luke Cage, Cyborg and Naomi, comics writer David Walker is teaming with artist Marcus Kwame Anderson to produce 'The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History', which will be published by Ten Speed Press in January 2021. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S is to publish an illustrated gift book by nature writer and conservationist Simon Barnes next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-28 12:04:41 UTC ]
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Marisel Vera’s historical novel revisits the 1899 hurricane that decimated the island. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-22 11:06:04 UTC ]
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Two Roads has acquired three "glamorous social histories": Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans, The Barbizon by Paulina Bren and Kiki Man Ray by Mark Braude. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 18:44:38 UTC ]
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September Publishing is to release the "first comprehensive guide" to London's Afro-Caribbean history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 16:43:22 UTC ]
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Amazon UK country manager Doug Gurr is leaving the retailer to become director of the Natural History Museum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 02:28:53 UTC ]
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Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin UK, will publish Caste: The Lies that Divide Us, an exploration of social history by Isabel Wilkerson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 01:31:24 UTC ]
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Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) has leapt into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, making her the first black British author to hit the weekly overall number one in the Nielsen BookScan era. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 07:29:33 UTC ]
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David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea (Allen Lane), a global history of humankind told through our relationship with the world’s oceans, has won the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 10:43:11 UTC ]
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Oneworld will publish Inheritance: The Forgotten History of Mary Davies by historian Leo Hollis. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 05:25:51 UTC ]
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Author Bernardine Evaristo becomes the first black British woman to top the UK paperback fiction chart. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2020-06-12 11:06:56 UTC ]
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The charts success this week of Bernardine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge exposes 22 years of whiteness at the top of the charts Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-12 04:53:36 UTC ]
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Robert Dallek follows the common threads among 20th-century chief executives that led us here. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray is to publish Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden, director of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 22:22:06 UTC ]
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As soon as people discovered the pleasures of a diverting novel, some starchy scold swooped in to make them feel bad. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Television presenter and musician wins £1,000 prize for writers of colour, with ‘exceptionally thoughtful’ debut AfropeanExtract from Afropean: ‘It really was another world’Johny Pitts has won the Jhalak prize for his debut book Afropean, an examination of life in black communities across... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-05-26 18:44:35 UTC ]
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'It's so easy now to turn the past into myth,' says Pulitzer Prize -winning Cundill juror Anne Applebaum. She and her colleagues flag historical analysis amid a pathogen's assault and leadership failures. The post Canada’s Cundill Prize Jurors: History, Urgency, Trump appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2020-05-26 10:06:37 UTC ]
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“The Poster,” edited by Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, is a beautiful survey of the medium. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-21 14:34:13 UTC ]
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Gunn, who will remain as editor of the Weekend Australian, began her career as a cadet journalist at the News Corp titleThe weekday Australian has appointed its first female editor in its 56-year history in Michelle Gunn, the editor of the Weekend Australian since 2012.Editor John Lehmann is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-05-15 05:41:11 UTC ]
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