Jonathan Franzen’s Worst Nightmare

To many devoted readers, bookstores, and collectors, a book is good, but a signed book is best—and the absence of a title page to autograph is just another reason for purists to eschew those newfangled e-readers. A signed copy of a favorite book can be intensely meaningful to an avid fan. And in the world of rare-book collecting, something inscribed by the author can catapult a book’s price into the stratosphere. Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Lit Hub Daily: December 20, 2024

These are 50 of 2024’s the best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists In case you need something to do between now and the new year, these are our 10 favorite book to screen adaptations from 2024. | Lit Hub Film... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships

My favorite book is a pale, mint green, Illustrated Junior Library edition with edges sprayed indigo blue. The girl on the cover wears a white pinafore over a practical plaid dress. Her two orangey-red braids fall around her shoulders, topped off with a wide-brimmed straw hat covered in... Continue reading at Electric Literature

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Behind the Cover: BookTok’s Favorite Book Designer

Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Are publishers are paying attention? Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Get a pillow stand and page turner for your Kindle, $60 all-in

The one thing that annoys me when reading my Kindle? Trying to find a comfortable reading position, especially when I’m in bed. If you’re like me, then this cozy pillow stand with built-in snack bowl might be just the thing you need. And now that it’s just $40 for Prime members, it’s... Continue reading at PC World

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My Favorite Book Titles of 2024 (So Far)

Which title have you read this year that really attracted you to a book and made you want to read more? Continue reading at Book Riot

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Kobo Libra Colour Review: A Color E Ink Screen

Kobo’s latest e-reader introduces a color E Ink screen that brings graphic novels, children’s books, and your favorite book covers to life. Continue reading at Wired

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Paperback Reader: Your Guide to Spring 2024 YA Paperback Releases

There are so many excellent paperback YA books hitting shelves this spring. Dive in and discover your next favorite book. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Join the Trans Rights Readathon March 22-29

What's your favorite book by a trans author or featuring a trans main character? Continue reading at Book Riot

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Gregory Pardlo on the Psychology of Tennis, Historical Omissions, and Wanting to Be an Architect

Gregory Pardlo’s poetry collection Spectral Evidence is available today from Knopf, so we asked him a few questions about his readers, when he writes, and his favorite book to recommend to others. * Who do you most wish would read your book? (your boss, your childhood bully, etc.) Maybe someone... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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The best books we read in 2023

With El Niño slated to drop a warm, wet winter on most of the US in the coming months, everybody’s going to need something good to read while the weather outside is frightful. Engadget’s well-read staff have some suggestions: our favorite books of 2023! We’ve got a phenomenal assortment of... Continue reading at Engadget

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Absolutely Extra Gift Ideas for Book Lovers

Wow your favorite book lover this holiday season and sweep them off their feet with these seven absolutely extra bookish gift ideas.- Leah Rachel von Essen Continue reading at Book Riot

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Your definitive guide to Goodreads ratings. (Or: why does your favorite book have 3 stars?)

If you use Goodreads at all, you’ve likely noticed that the platform allows you to “rate” your “reads” using “stars” (those are scare quotes). If you use Goodreads regularly, you probably know that the ratings system is, in a word, fucked. Why does literally every Colleen Hoover book have over... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Writing Discipline Envy: Tracy K. Smith Wakes Early and Meditates

Tracy K. Smith’s To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul is available tomorrow, so we asked her a few questions about her readers, when she writes, and her favorite book to recommend to others. * Who do you most wish would read your book? People who are weary of the limits of […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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No Book Left Behind, by Alice-Catherine Carls

No Book Left Behind, by Alice-Catherine Carls Essay [email protected] Mon, 10/09/2023 - 15:35 Photo by Alexander Grey / UnsplashWelcome news to those of us in the “Flyover Zone”: our reading habits are healthy and well served. The Jackson Madison... Continue reading at World Literature Today

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Bookish Halloween Costumes for Pets

The best part of October? Halloween costumes for pets! Dress your furry friends as your favorite book characters with these costumes.- Susie Dumond Continue reading at Book Riot

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Let’s Sort Book Characters According to Their Dungeons & Dragons Alignments!

From Lawful Good to Chaotic Evil, where do your favorite book characters fall in their Dungeons & Dragons alignment? Continue reading at Book Riot

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An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT | Tim Adams

Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ feedstockBattles between human and artificial intelligence are no longer science fiction. The strikes in Hollywood led by the united guilds of actors and screenwriters have a common, intangible enemy: the... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Hua Hsu: An Interview

“A collection of these issues would undoubtedly be my favorite book that no one has heard of,” says the author of the memoir “Stay True,” one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2022. “If you are reading this, please write me!” Continue reading at The New York Times

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How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

The list of novels that began their lives as short stories is long and well known. Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, Eudory Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (which began as a short story titled “Gogol”), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (expanded from her 1923... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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From the Archive: October 29, 2001

In fall 2001, we reported on Oprah Winfrey’s decision to rescind her invitation to Jonathan Franzen to appear on her TV show after 'The Corrections' was named an Oprah’s Book Club pick. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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