Novelists Nadia Hashimi and Helen Benedict join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the mistakes American writers and culture made in depicting the United States’ wars Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and President Biden’s decision to pull US troops out of Afghanistan, have American fiction and […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-23 08:49:21 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#whitney terrell
#20th anniversary
#president biden
#american fiction
#novelists
Novelists Nadia Hashimi and Helen Benedict join hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the mistakes American writers and culture made in depicting the United States’ wars Iraq and Afghanistan. In the wake of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and President Biden’s decision to pull US... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-23 08:49:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#whitney terrell
#20th anniversary
#president biden
#american fiction
#novelists
James L. Swanson's bestselling book is the basis for Apple TV+'s "Manhunt," but the cast and creator also turned to historical documents from the real people depicted. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-03-15 10:00:15 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#civil war
#apple tv+
#bestselling book
In two books, a narrative of the efforts to overturn the election and a warning for the future. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-01-06 15:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as “good,” Elizabeth Samet writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-12-10 13:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The New-York Historical Society award goes to a study of fractures in American society a year after Pearl Harbor, which resonates amid the pandemic today. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-03-15 16:00:06 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#american society
#pearl harbor
#pandemic today
#history book
Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. What would happen if Jesus’s second coming occurred in America, and he believed the best way... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-01-01 09:00:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#dion graham
#editors recommend
#audiobook listening
#audiobook clips
#featured listens
#audiobook
An overworked archaeologist confronts a mysterious intruder in Phillips’s fifth novel. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-09 17:39:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The memoirs of former Iraq envoy Jeremy Greenstock, initially blocked in 2005 for his efforts to reveal "certain truths" about the conflict, are to be published by William Heinemann this November. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#william heinemann
A former US Marine wins the biennial Warwick Prize for Writing for his book of short stories dealing with American experiences of the Iraq War. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#iraq war
William 'Wild Bill' Guarnere fought in some of Europe's toughest battlesWilliam "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the second world veterans whose exploits were dramatised in the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, has died. He was 90.His son, William Guarnere Jr, confirmed on Sunday that his father died... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#best-selling memoir
Two more books drawing buzz at the fair include a debut novel by Joshua Ferris's wife, and a co-authored book about friendship and the Iraq war. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#joshua ferris
#iraq war
I feel a cultural shift in the way the publishing world is accepting Cambodian American stories. In 2021, Ecco Press posthumously published the groundbreaking story collection, Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So, opening new doors for Khmer American writers. The next year the University of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-26 08:55:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#reading list
#publishing world
#treasure trove
#anthony veasna
We already love Dolly Parton, not just for her powerhouse songwriting and iconic hair but also for her championing of American literacy—her Imagination Library sends over 1 million free books per month (that’s one book every two seconds!) to children ages 0-5 in the United States, Canada, the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 18:00:10 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#dolly parton
#literary hub
#free books
If you pick up the newest edition of Oxford American, the quarterly general-interest literary magazine founded in 1992 and best known for its annual Southern music issues, you’ll notice a bold design aesthetic: the conspicuous dearth of cover lines, a prominent masthead, a thick, granular... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-11 20:06:33 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#oxford american
#ll notice
#literary magazine
Even the most horrific photos are not able to prevent wars happening, they remain decoration for our conscienceThis week the Guardian published the kind of picture that deserves to change the world. The front page of Thursday's print edition was dominated by an epic scene of human suffering,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
"We know from history that a way you control a nation is by controlling what its citizens read" — Jodi Picoult Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-11-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#history book
Watergate reporter says Trump is far worse than Nixon and ‘most reckless and impulsive president in American history’The Middle East and Ukraine are ablaze, the US mired in turmoil. An octogenarian president recedes from view. The threat of a second Trump term hangs like the sword of Damocles.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-20 15:39:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#schuster
#vladimir putin
#fourth book
#inflection point
#middle east
#american history
The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncannyJoy Williams, 80, has written five novels and four story collections and is the recipient of numerous awards. Her most... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-19 17:00:20 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#recent book
#published earlier
#numerous awards
#story collections