“A memoir is closer to historical fiction than it is to biography” writes artist and author Jill Ciment in her retrospective memoir Consent. At seventeen, Ciment had an affair with her forty-seven-year-old painting teacher. The two married, and Ciment wrote the original account of the affair in a memoir titled Half A Life at forty-seven […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:55:21 UTC ]
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Amazon completely revamped its Kindle family in October when it debuted the entirely new Colorsoft ereader along with updated generations of the other three existing models: the standard Kindle, the Paperwhite and the Scribe E Ink tablet. The new Paperwhite has a slightly larger screen, a bigger... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-11-04 16:30:36 UTC ]
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Freedom to read advocates in Alaska have settled a lawsuit against the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in Alaska, which will pay $89,000 to resolve claims that it improperly removed dozens of books from school library shelves. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Naomi Cohn’s memoir focuses on her progressive vision loss and her embrace of braille as an act of reclaiming her love of reading and writing, along with an expanded sensory and sensual existence in the world. Intertwined with this focus are themes braided and bountiful, including a history of... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-10-25 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten years ago he published the graphic novel “Here,” an instant classic depicting one room in one house over generations. Now Tom Hanks is starring in the movie. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2024-10-24 09:00:34 UTC ]
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Horror for all scaredy-types, recent post-apocalyptic fiction, historical fiction set in Scotland, and much more on Book Riot today. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-10-23 15:30:00 UTC ]
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Whether you're in the mood for a branching-path horror novel, or even a spooky-scary memoir from a Navajo Ranger, this fall has you covered. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-10-23 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Absolution, the latest book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series, begins with a mysterious alligator experiment that seems to have gone wrong. Read the first two chapters here. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2024-10-22 15:30:12 UTC ]
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Glory Edim's 'Gather Me' traces the dramatic arc of her life as well as her discovery of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and other Black writers. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-21 17:03:20 UTC ]
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How to start reading manga and manhwa, kids' books about Día de los Muertos, cozy romances for all, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-10-21 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Watergate reporter says Trump is far worse than Nixon and ‘most reckless and impulsive president in American history’The Middle East and Ukraine are ablaze, the US mired in turmoil. An octogenarian president recedes from view. The threat of a second Trump term hangs like the sword of Damocles.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-10-20 15:39:32 UTC ]
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Listen, I do a lot of yoga… book yoga, that is. You know, when you’re reading your Kindle in bed but you start aching so you twist and turn into various positions, trying to stay comfortable so you can keep devouring that crazy addictive story you just can’t put down? Well, I’m also... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2024-10-17 12:59:10 UTC ]
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Take your book club beyond THE SECRET HISTORY, take a peek at the week's best new book releases, and curl up with cozy queer reads. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-10-15 15:00:00 UTC ]
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I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast and war spreading in the Middle East, the uncertainty about our collective futures—whether it is from climate... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-10-11 11:05:00 UTC ]
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In a joint release, reps said that the new line will focus on “inclusive romantic and pop fiction,” and will aim to publish four to six titles per year. CEO and publisher Dominique Raccah called the imprint “a dream partnership.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital printing, paper availability, sustainability, and the looming implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulations were among the hot topics at the Book Manufacturers' Institute event. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A love of reading is easier to stoke when you have easy access to books, and there’s no easier way to do that than by getting your child this Kindle Paperwhite Kids that’s on sale for $115 on Amazon. That’s a solid 32% discount off its MSRP of $170. The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is pretty... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2024-10-01 13:44:32 UTC ]
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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/history-of-overhyped-tech-charles-burns-final-cut-richard-powers-playground-163018545.html?src=rss Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-09-28 16:30:18 UTC ]
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Fifteen years ago, Electric Literature started as a print and digital quarterly journal during the glory days of the print magazine era. Our very first issue surpassed 10,000 copies in sales, we were stocked in newsstands and bookstores, and as an e-book. We were one of the first to publish... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-27 11:10:00 UTC ]
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Fall is the season of Big Books: the mega-hyped, the much-recommended, and the written-by-celebrities. And despite the fact that we’re in a (god-forsaken) election year, the literary cup, as usual, runneth over. So how’s a discerning gal or guy to choose which Big Book to read (first)? Just like... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-23 08:56:27 UTC ]
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It’s Big Book Season again, and you know what that means: lists. (Yes, there are also lists during all the other seasons. Lists are (chaotic?) good.) It also means that it’s time again for Literary Hub’s Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which I valiantly endeavor to read all the seasonal literary... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-17 08:57:52 UTC ]
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