I first read Carl Sagan’s Contact and Cosmos in high school, when I was working at a bookstore that let us borrow any book we had at least two copies of on the shelves. I loved them then and was excited to revisit these books in the course of my research for The Possibility of […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-18 08:54:28 UTC ]
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Average author earnings in 2018 were £10,497. This doesn’t have a lot to recommend it other than the fact that should it remain at this level, we’ll all be able to earn a further two grand doing other things before we have to pay any tax. Not that it’s likely to – it’s widely reported that it’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-15 09:01:08 UTC ]
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With Disclosure around the corner it is time to test your alien book knowledge. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Leaving our earthly bodies and living forever as a machine isn't just a thing of modern science fiction. These transhumanist ideas date back to the 18th century. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2021-05-17 05:22:55 UTC ]
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For her debut picture book Flora Delargy, an author and illustrator from Northern Ireland, decided to tell the lesser-known part of the “Titanic” story, about the brave captain who turned around his ship, “Carpathia”, to rescue survivors from the freezing Atlantic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-14 12:27:27 UTC ]
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The latest installment in MIT’s Twelve Tomorrows series toggles between utopian and dystopian. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-10 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Leone Ross’s third novel will appeal to readers who appreciate literary ambition and risk-taking. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-03 05:33:17 UTC ]
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It sounds like science fiction but the demonstration by Elon Musk’s neurotechnology company Neuralink is a brain-machine interface in action. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2021-04-15 02:20:13 UTC ]
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An astrophysicist argues that a strange object seen in space was made by extraterrestrials. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-29 13:00:00 UTC ]
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"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr., depicts an intense bond between Isaiah and Samuel on a plantation in unbearable and untenable circumstances. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-12-29 15:00:38 UTC ]
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A new edition of “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas” showcases another side of the Lord of the Rings author. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-22 08:00:00 UTC ]
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The book critic and Fake Accounts author says that smart readers are not being served by the publishing industry. The post Lauren Oyler on America’s Alienating Literary Culture appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2020-11-18 21:30:25 UTC ]
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Expecting the terror of darkness once the power goes out, we find instead the sepia tones of candlelight. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-10 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Interviews Ari Larissa Heinrich / Photo by Tara Pixley Ari Larissa Heinrich is the translator of Qiu Miaojin’s Last Words from Montmartre (New York Review Books) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). They... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-10-27 22:09:23 UTC ]
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The First Woman, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's powerful feminist novel about a headstrong young woman’s coming-of-age in 1970s Uganda, has had a long and fraught path to publication. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 17:05:04 UTC ]
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We take a look at the latest picture book collaboration from award-winning duo Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, which features a personal story about the stigma of incarceration. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Joseph O’Connor, author of “Star of the Sea,” has written another gorgeous historical novel. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-24 15:59:05 UTC ]
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Jonny Geller has advised publishers to see lockdown as a time of change and "experiment". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 17:27:45 UTC ]
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“Even years after the events,” Perrotta says of the characters he created, “they were trying to figure out how to process this grief.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-25 15:16:52 UTC ]
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“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-03-17 09:00:08 UTC ]
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The author of “Catch and Kill,” which was published by a division of Hachette Book Group, said he wouldn’t work with the company again after it announced plans to publish his father’s memoir. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-03-04 00:27:49 UTC ]
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