I’ll just say it straight: book awards are ridiculous. They are the garden gnomes of the literary landscape – fun, provocative, but ultimately ornamental. They have no more meritocratic substance than judging jambalaya over jelly at the village fete – it’s all a matter of personal taste. My disdain partly hearkens from a philosophical objection to the self-congratulating futility of judging art against itself. But mainly it’s because I don’t win them. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-19 20:01:30 UTC ]
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The Nobel Prize winner talks about the pandemic, his novel “Klara and the Sun,” fatherhood and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-22 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Jason Reynolds has won the 2021 Carnegie Medal for 'Look Both Ways,' and Sydney Smith has won the 2021 Kate Greenaway Medal for his picture book 'Small in the City.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-16 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A former Obama speech writer travels the world to uncover how we’re seen, and whether it matters Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The children’s books I was raised on, and decades later those I read with my own kids, spoke little to the world I knew—and that change must come. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 20:47:21 UTC ]
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Japanese writer Haruki Murakami offers a collection of imaginative short stories with skewed elements that his many fans are sure to applaud. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-04-06 22:11:04 UTC ]
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Find joy — and escape — in books like “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Cold Comfort Farm” and “The Lunatic at Large” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-03-31 07:44:49 UTC ]
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The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has the potential to touch every part of the industry, including how much authors get paid and how bookstores are run. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-02-25 10:00:22 UTC ]
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Walker Books leads the pack in the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals longlists for the third year running. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 00:08:32 UTC ]
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The awards, which were established in 2012, have become a highly coveted literary honor, reflecting the expert judgment and insight of library professionals and booksellers who work closely with adult readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographerGeorge Orwell died at University College Hospital, London, on 21 January 1950 at the early age of 46. This means that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-01-01 11:00:08 UTC ]
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ANDREA HAIRSTON IS A playwright and theater director, a novelist, a critic, and the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. Her previous books include science fiction (Mindscape) and what can best be described as magical realism (Redwood and Wildfire and... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-26 18:00:34 UTC ]
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Han’s debut novel follows a Chinese couple reaching for the American Dream while raising their children in Texas. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-30 16:27:21 UTC ]
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Short stories are a complex form, one that author and professor Danielle Evans continues to show herself adept in. The ever-shifting opportunities of short fiction are evident in Evans’s work, from her debut collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self to her latest, The Office of... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-11-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The two medal winners will be announced by selection committee chair Bill Kelly at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards (BMAs) event, which will take place online on February 4, 2021, 3-4pm CST. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Let’s start our morning right with the latest book news. Today, the American Library Association announced the shortlist of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, which honors the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 15:48:43 UTC ]
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In all, a total of 46 books (26 fiction, 20 nonfiction) were selected, with a six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—to be announced on November 17. The two medal winners will be announced during an online event set for February 4, 2021. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
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As her work broke new ground, the composer faced ridicule and threats, writes Amanda Sewell. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-23 12:00:00 UTC ]
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I started writing this post as a counterpoint to the “describe your favorite book in the most boring way possible” trend. It was meant to be something along the lines of “describe a plotless book in the most exciting way possible.” But more I thought about the books below, initially attempting... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-16 20:13:40 UTC ]
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Anthony McGowan has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal with Lark (Barrington Stoke), the fourth in his Truth of Things series of novellas, and Shaun Tan has claimed the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration for Tales from the Inner City (Walker Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 18:08:14 UTC ]
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