‘My Dark Vanessa’ is being described as ‘Lolita’ for the #MeToo era. It’s more than that.

Kate Elizabeth Russell’s novel places readers in the shadowy realm between right and wrong. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-09 16:51:57 UTC ]
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Daunt tells booksellers 'don't be boring' to survive Amazon era

Bookshops need to avoid being “boring” and apply a “bookseller's mind” to data if they want to survive in an era dominated by Amazon, Waterstones m.d. and Barnes & Noble c.e.o. James Daunt has said. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 17:39:21 UTC ]
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Did This Iconic 1962 Short Film Show Us Our Dark Future?

This past summer, I stumbled across a link on social media to Chris Marker’s 1962 science fiction film La Jetée. For those who don’t know it, Marker’s miniature masterpiece—its running time is 28 minutes—mixes black-and-white stills with narration to tell the story of a man who circles back in... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-07 09:49:34 UTC ]
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The achievements, and compromises, of two Reconstruction-era amendments

While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-31 21:37:07 UTC ]
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Apocalyptic Childhood: On Cixin Liu’s “Supernova Era”

CIXIN LIU IS having a moment. The recent publication in English of his Three-Body Problem trilogy has been rightly hailed as a sea change for Chinese science fiction in translation, garnering myriad awards and receiving wide acclaim — including an endorsement from Barack Obama. The Wandering... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-29 17:00:45 UTC ]
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On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children’s Books

The first novel I published with a major house was about a murder I covered as a reporter when I was in my early twenties. The victim, who was my age, and lived in my neighborhood, disappeared in the winter and her body was found in the summer in a shallow grave in the woods […] Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-22 08:48:49 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’

The second in the Book of Dust Trilogy is lengthy but worth the time investment. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-21 23:55:57 UTC ]
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Ronan Farrow does goofy voices in his dead-serious MeToo audiobook

The audiobook version of “Catch and Kill” features first-rate reporting and some wince-worthy character work. (You do NOT want to hear him do Trump’s voice.) What: The least necessary vocal inflection in recent memory.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2019-10-16 14:20:58 UTC ]
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Ronan Farrow’s dark memoir puts the media at the center of intersecting conspiracies

‘Catch and Kill’ follows a reporter’s noirish road to uncovering alleged sexual misconduct at NBC and in Hollywood. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-14 16:12:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld snaps up dark comedy from Caoilinn Hughes

Oneworld has scooped Caoilinn Hughes’ “mesmerising and ambitious” second novel which promises to be a dark comedy on euthanasia. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-08 21:08:41 UTC ]
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A vintage Benson & Hedge's ad evokes a cheekier (but no less deadly) era of cigarette marketing

Sometimes an ad gets just a little too truthful for its own good. By the time this 1972 full-pager for Benson & Hedges 100’s ran in Life magazine, smoking was widely understood to be associated with a range of serious diseases. So, sure, let’s equate using our product to jumping out of a... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
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Monstrous Acts and Erections of Doom: On Five ’80s-Era “Paperbacks from Hell”

THE MOST TERRIFYING WORK of fiction you may read in 2019 — Elizabeth Engstrom’s When Darkness Loves Us — first crawled to life as a cheapo paperback in the mid-1980s. Now back in print as part of Valancourt’s Paperbacks from Hell series of ’70s and ’80s horror rediscoveries, Engstrom’s genre... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books

[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-09-18 12:30:01 UTC ]
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Sarah Weinman: Why We’ve Always Misunderstood Lolita

This week on The Maris Review, Sarah Weinman joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her book, The Real Lolita, now available in paperback from Ecco. On our misunderstanding of Lolita: Sarah: One of the things about writing this book is that it wasn’t just writing about the story of Sally Horner or the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-12 08:47:29 UTC ]
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Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . .

Scenes from NecronomiCon, an event that celebrates the work of H.P. Lovecraft and others Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2019-09-04 16:38:52 UTC ]
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Harry Potter banned in Catholic school after exorcists advise its dark magic is real.

J. K. Rowling’s beloved Harry Potter series is once again in the news after it was banned by the St. Edward Catholic School in Tennessee. The epic fantasy series focused on young wizard Harry Potter who battles against the forces of evil is, allegedly, not fantasy enough. Reverend Dan Reehil... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-03 16:05:18 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster lands Brearley '#MeToo reckoning for mothers'

Simon & Schuster has landed “the #MeToo reckoning for mothers” by writer and activist Joeli Brearley about new mums being pushed out of their jobs. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-28 20:40:58 UTC ]
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Visions of the future: five dark warnings from the world of classic science fiction

Science fiction is fast becoming science fact, which should be cause for concern. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2019-08-27 17:03:06 UTC ]
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Andrew Scott joins cast for BBC adaptation of Pullman's His Dark Materials

“Fleabag” actor Andrew Scott has joined the cast for the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-21 01:32:35 UTC ]
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John Murray signs Gallen's 'darkly comic' debut

John Murray will publish Michelle Gallen's "darkly comic" debut novel set on the Irish border. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-20 14:25:46 UTC ]
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Tison's reimagining of Lolita to be published in France

A reimagining of Vladimir Nabokov’s classic Lolita, written from the child’s point of view, will be published in France this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-19 16:23:01 UTC ]
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