It’s okay to admit it: We’d all like to be living in an Elin Hilderbrand novel

The queen of the beach read has built a bond among her readers. It feels more vital — and in greater jeopardy — in a time of social distancing. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-28 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Rachel Held Evans’ Wholehearted Faith Lives On in New Book

The bestselling progressive Christian writer died in 2019 but “a vision doesn’t die with one person,” says her husband who is orchestrating the publishing of Evan’s remaining manuscripts. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Return of Live PNBA Delights Pacific Booksellers, Publishers

The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association convened the first in-person fall regional conference to take place since the start of the pandemic in Portland, Ore., this week, attracting 180 booksellers, 150 publishers and 50 authors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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PEN America Goes Live Again at 2021 Gala

Literati and Hollywood royalty alike were back at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on October 5 for the PEN America Literary Gala, one of the first major indoor and in-person events held by a literary institution since the pandemic began. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Will Smith: 'Black Lives Matter' Is A Better Slogan Than 'Defund The Police'

The actor told GQ: “I’m not saying we shouldn’t defund the police. I’m saying, just don’t say that, because then people who would help you won’t.” Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2021-09-27 18:04:34 UTC ]
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All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

Matt Haig’s latest novel, The Midnight Library, has spent 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list since its publication in September 2020. The novel focuses on Nora Seed, a young woman living in her hometown of Bedford, England, who thinks she has nothing to live for. She decides to die... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-22 08:49:49 UTC ]
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Algoriddim's djay iOS app uses Shazam to recognize and sync with live music

Algoriddim has been working closely with Apple for years on its djay apps and regularly appears in the company's keynotes. Now, it's integrating another Apple product, Shazam, into its latest iOS djay app with the release of iOS 15. The new feature lets you can scan your surroundings and... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2021-09-20 14:00:01 UTC ]
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Live Your Home Library Dream With These Ex Libris Stamps

Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence—mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this... Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2021-09-15 10:31:00 UTC ]
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Hamnet summer campaign employs 'living billboard'

The marketing and publicity team behind Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) have unfurled a living billboard in south London, as part of their summer reading campaign. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 10:34:54 UTC ]
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How I Tracked Down the Hidden Lives of the Radical, Wealthy Morris Sisters

In 2008, I published my first book, Please Excuse My Daughter, a memoir about my mother and me and how I grew up, and it dipped a little into my mother’s family’s history, which was rich and interesting. Her mother’s uncle, Sam Golding, developed the neighborhood of Rego Park in Queens during... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-08-16 08:49:26 UTC ]
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Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability

In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-08-15 09:00:03 UTC ]
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7 Short Stories About the Inner Lives of Athletes

The 2020 Tokyo Games will be defined by many things—the anachronism of its title, the risk of superspreading, the welcome absence of Matt Lauer—but, hopefully, these Olympics will also be remembered for bringing mental health to the forefront of popular discourse. Simone Biles’ “twisties.”... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-08-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Kelly Ripa's First Book, 'Live Wire,' Is Coming Next Year

The essay collection will show what “really makes her tick” as she writes about marriage, motherhood and her career in show business. Continue reading at The Huffington Post

[ The Huffington Post | 2021-07-20 13:34:18 UTC ]
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If You Lived Here, You’d Be in Hell by Now

Carolyn Ferrell’s beautifully hair-raising debut novel takes readers into a house of horrors where some survivors have a better chance than others. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-07-07 09:00:03 UTC ]
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Faber to publish Black British Lives Matter essay collection with Henry and Ryder

Faber is to publish Black British Lives Matter, a collection of essays commissioned by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-03 12:11:51 UTC ]
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Children's Bookshow announces series of 15 live events this autumn

The Children's Bookshow charity has announced it will be returning to theatres across the country this autumn with a series of 15 live events featuring authors, poets and illustrators, including Michael Rosen and Val Bloom. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:59:37 UTC ]
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Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream

Bennett’s new memoir, “(Re)Born in the USA,” traces an offbeat journey from obsession to proud citizenship. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-07-01 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder removes Hilderbrand’s Anne Frank reference after criticism

Hodder has removed a passage from American author Elin Hilderbrand’s latest novel after criticism over its reference to Anne Frank.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-10 01:28:19 UTC ]
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Readers Angered over Anne Frank Reference in New Hilderbrand Novel

Author Elin Hilderbrand and publisher Little, Brown have come under fire for a passage in Hilderbrand's new book, 'Golden Girls,' that some readers on social media are calling anti-Semitic. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,’ last-ditch medical interventions are their own horror story

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan returns to familiar themes, including the human capacity for cruelty. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-05-31 16:41:08 UTC ]
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Adin Dobkin Admits He’s in the Pocket of Big Sandwich

In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This month we’re talking to Adin Dobkin, author of the forthcoming book Sprinting Through No-Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-05-20 11:00:00 UTC ]
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