Mieko Kawakami, whose poignant and pointed debut novel Breasts and Eggs is this season’s LARB’s Book Club selection, joins Medaya Ocher and Boris Dralyuk to discuss her career as a musician, poet, blogger, and author, the challenges facing women around the world, the state of Japanese literature, and the wonders of translation. Also, Eric Cervini, […] The post Talking “Breasts and Eggs” with Japan’s Rising Literary Star, Mieko Kawakami appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
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Oprah's 111th book club pick, Iowa's librarian criminalization bill, the best new cozy mysteries, and bonus news! Continue reading at Book Riot
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Sorry ACOTAR fans--that series isn't happening, plus, reclaiming Indigenous history, being an author with a celeb book club pick, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Oprah has announced that her book club pick for March 2025 is Dream State by Eric Puchner, which came out ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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I know some people like to march to the beat of their own drum and aren’t really interested in what ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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Reese's Book Club picks Allegra Goodman's latest novel, B&N and Read with Jenna both spotlight Jessica Soffer's ‘This Is a Love Story,’ and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Want to get involved in a book club? Here are 11 clubs, what they're reading in February, and how you can take part in the conversation. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Historical fiction centering *The* Woman behind the Harlem Renaissance, a tropical rebel gets her duke, and more of this month's best book club books. Continue reading at Book Riot
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Olufunke Grace Bankole’s debut novel The Edge of Water opens with a prophecy: “A storm is coming.” The order of things, the Iyanifa tells us, will be disrupted by a soul who defies her fate. What follows is the story of three generations of Nigerian and Nigerian American women: Esther, who... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-02-04 12:00:00 UTC ]
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This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. Continue reading at The New York Times
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In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Keep the convo going with the most book club-friendly books of our 2025 Most Anticipated list. Continue reading at Book Riot
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The inspiration for the movie Arrival, a Reese's book club pick, how to fight racism, and more in today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot
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Good Girl—the debut novel by award-winning poet Aria Aber—follows nineteen-year-old Nila as she becomes charmed in a Berlin club and falls manically in love with Marlowe, an older brooding American writer. Raised by Afghan refugees, Nila’s childhood remains haunted by the shadows of exile while... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2025-01-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Activist, Spy, and Icon Josephine Baker's memoir, a bookish memoir about mental illness and identity by a literature professor, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2025-01-21 13:30:00 UTC ]
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Time to take a peek at what’s been happening in Library Land. We have audiobook news, January book club picks, ... Continue reading at Book Riot
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“Those people. My whole existence, neatly packed into one demonstrative adjective,” says Nila, the protagonist of Aria Aber’s pulsing debut novel Good Girl. Nila was born in Berlin, “inside its ghetto-heart, as a small, wide-eyed rat, in the months after reunification.” As these quotations show,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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A debut novel about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to dramatize the immigrant experience. Continue reading at The Atlantic
[ The Atlantic | 2025-01-15 14:30:00 UTC ]
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