What place does San Diego have in the cultural imagination? Because this is where I grew up, it’s hard for me to see it clearly. San Diego can seem like a joke—always trying to be something more than what it is, never measuring up, the overlooked younger sibling of LA and San Francisco. Our politicians […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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Tales of foraging and magic, cults and deeply embedded social ills are among our top March picks, including new work from Mona Simpson and Victor LaValle. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-02-28 17:06:03 UTC ]
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There are decades of great comics to read about Ant-Man and the Wasp. Here’s your reading list for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-02-15 11:32:00 UTC ]
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Quantum Mechanics is the science behind nuclear energy, smart phones, and particle collisions. Yet, almost a century after its discovery, there is still controversy over what the theory actually means. The problem is that its key element, the quantum-mechanical wave function describing atoms and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-10 09:52:54 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's February picks include new work from Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith, plus fresh insights into friendship, Silicon Valley and wolves. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-31 14:18:02 UTC ]
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For many tourists, the Caribbean is a paradise. A place outside time—with no history and no future. A place for cocktails on the beach and escaping the relentless rhythms of modern life. But to me, the Caribbean has always been beautiful because of its history, not in spite of it. A cross-roads... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Having written and taught short stories for many years, I’ve become increasingly interested in writers who are pushing the edge of how “story” is defined. While “flash fiction” and “micro fiction” are buzzy terms, writing extremely short pieces is nothing new—as I tell my students, Poe did it,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-20 09:53:22 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's picks for January 2023 include an Indian gangster tale, a dystopian epic and musings from Amy Sherald and Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-29 17:31:23 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's December standout books include a Gen X caper, a wild adventure tale and surprising new novels from Jane Smiley and Cormac McCarthy. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-12-01 18:52:48 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's November highlights include musings from Dylan, Tarantino and Jerry Saltz, the returns of Russell Banks and Katherine Dunn and more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-10-28 14:02:44 UTC ]
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The story within a story. It’s a common enough trope—from The Arabian Nights to Hamlet to the postmodern canon, we’re familiar with books that nest realities inside one another. Moving from the main narrative to the nested narrative can reveal interesting echoes, parallels, and reflections, and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-03 08:54:13 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's October highlights include the biographies of Bob Dylan and Samuel Adams, new fiction from John Irving and Celeste Ng and plenty more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-29 13:00:19 UTC ]
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At its best, the relationship between novelist and reader is an intimate one. Can I tell you something? whispers the writer, and the reader whispers back, Please do… Of all the forms that the novel can take, the diary is surely the most confiding of all; it’s as if the intimacy level has been... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Bethanne Patrick's September highlights include sequels from Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer along with exciting debuts. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-09-02 14:00:54 UTC ]
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The 16th UN Sustainable Development Goal is the focus of a new children's reading list released by the SDG Book Club. The post IPA: The SDG Book Club Issues a New Reading List appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-08-24 22:10:44 UTC ]
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Bethanne Patrick's August highlights include fiction from Mohsin Hamid and Marianne Wiggins, a sequel to "Dopesick" and a revisionist feminist history. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-29 13:00:01 UTC ]
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This is a boom time for books about animal intelligence. It feels like every day I see a review of a book called something like Furry Mensa—the Remarkable Brains of All Those Little Guys Running Around Out There. No book in this genre is ever going to be truly bad, because animal intelligence is... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-07-29 08:51:54 UTC ]
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Despite the diminished presence of manga on the exhibition floor of the San Diego Comic-Con, manga and webtoon publishers continue to report a wave of strong sales and fan enthusiasm. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
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It's that time of year when we gather 'round and discuss former President Barack Obama's reading list for the summer! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-07-26 21:53:22 UTC ]
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It might have been hard to tell because of the mask requirement, but there were a lot of smiles at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con, held July 21-24 at the San Diego Convention Center. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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At first, I wanted to call it Forty Love. My memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, & Literature, is a deeply personal account of the unexpected plot twists in my own life highlighted by the books I was reading at the time. In my current career as publishing CEO at Zibby Books and host […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-07-22 08:51:36 UTC ]
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