Recommended Reading: Don't try to shop on Facebook or Twitter

Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology and more in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short reviews of books that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read.I Tried Holiday Shopping on Fa... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

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How reading helps us build empathy and resist tyranny

While arguing against intolerance, Azar Nafisi draws parallels between literary dystopias and contemporary America. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Why Reading Holocaust Books Written From a Jewish Perspective Matters

When learning about the Holocaust, it's important to center Jewish voices and books that don't shy away from the brutal realities of it. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2022-04-28 10:35:00 UTC ]
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Marketing: A Social Media ‘Read-Along’ With HarperCollins

Today's release of Don Winslow's 'City on Fire' opens a social-media 'read-along' project for HarperCollins and Tandem Collective. The post Marketing: A Social Media ‘Read-Along’ With HarperCollins appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Jennifer Egan: ‘Twitter doesn’t make me feel optimistic about human nature’

The Pulitzer prize-winning author discusses her follow up to A Visit from the Goon Squad and how imagining a new technology set her writing freeWhen Jennifer Egan bought her house in Brooklyn 20 years ago, it had been on the market for eight months. The owners were an elderly couple, and the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2022-04-16 08:00:03 UTC ]
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What will we be reading next year? Five biggest trends from the London book fair

The publishing jamboree was finally back after a two year break with clues of what we can expect in bookshops once all the deals are signedAfter two years off because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the London book fair, one of the biggest international literary events, returned in full force last... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2022-04-13 12:56:37 UTC ]
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Putting conflict in context: A reading list for Ukraine

War never happens in a vacuum. These books show the historic contours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

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12 Must-Read April Children’s Book Releases

April children's book releases feature new books by award winning authors like Kyle Lukoff and Dan Santat as well as fantastic debuts. Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2022-04-08 10:32:00 UTC ]
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Scottish university cruelly cancels poor, defenseless, under-read Jane Austen. England panics.

In exhibit #3,767 of ginned-up cancel culture panic, The Daily Mail is reporting that Stirling University in Scotland… …has removed Jane Austen [from a literature course] to help “decolonise the curriculum” and “contribute increased diversity” on the syllabus. Stirling University’s English... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Let’s call April mystery book month. Here’s what I’d read.

Two outstanding examples that daringly upend familiar conventions are Andre Bjerke’s “The Lake of the Dead" and Masahiro Imamura’s “Death Among the Undead." Continue reading at The Washington Post

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10 books to add to your reading list in April

Bethanne Patrick's April picks include highly anticipated novels from Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Don Winslow and Douglas Stuart. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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I like unusual books. Here’s what I’d read — if I had time.

If I could, I’d delve into undeservedly forgotten novels, works of intellectual history and biography -- and so much more Continue reading at The Washington Post

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What to Read When You Feel Uprooted

Mine is the story of the woman who thought she was making a book about others; realized only as it was about to be published, that she was the broken one the book talked about. The fragmented, the dispersed, the uprooted.  When I was editing the anthology Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2022-03-29 11:00:00 UTC ]
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‘The Cartographers’ is one of those brilliant books you have to read twice

In Peng Shepherd's fantastical thriller, a cartographer realizes the true power of maps. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Lauren Hough Loses Lambda Prize Nomination After a Twitter Feud

Her essay collection was removed from contention in the category of best lesbian memoir after she went on Twitter to defend a forthcoming Sandra Newman novel from charges that it was transphobic. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Children’s Books by Black Authors: A Reading List 

A reading list hints at the richness and breadth of African American children’s writing before Brown v. Board of Education. Continue reading at The New York Times

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Marie Claire expands shopping hub from the U.K. to the U.S.

The Marie Claire Edit shopping site is coming to the U.S., with an exclusive two-month deal with Nordstrom. The post Marie Claire expands shopping hub from the U.K. to the U.S. appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

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Stephen King, Janelle Monáe and more: Let’s talk about speculative fiction to read this year

2022 is turning out to be a great year if you love science fiction, fantasy and horror books Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Quiz: What Should Your Next Historical Fiction Read Be?

Share a little bit about historical eras you wish you were part of and get your next historical fiction read. Continue reading at Book Riot

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Seasons of Scam: A Reading List of Fake Identities

Fake identities serve as fascinatingly persistent plot devices because we all, at some point, desire to reinvent ourselves in pursuit of existential liberation or deception, curiosity or fantasy or survival. In one of the most canonical examples of this genre, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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20 Must-Read Genre-Bending Sci-Fi Books

From sci fi horror like Parasite by Mira Grant to science fantasy like Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao, those genre-blending science fiction books have something for every reader. Continue reading at Book Riot

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