A successful book club needs three things to thrive: delicious food, decent wine and wonderful people. Only the first two, food and wine, are easy to find. It is the third element, the people, that is like a jigsaw puzzle with a thousand pieces—something that promises to look like the pretty picture on the box, […] The post The Book Club of My Dreams Was at the Library All Along appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
[ Electric Literature | 2021-05-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
Many of us know Michelle Hart from her wonderful work highlighting queer writers when she was the assistant books editor at O, the Oprah Magazine. Now, she has her own novel to add to the fold: We Do What We Do In The Dark, an exquisitely written, intimately affecting novel about Mallory, a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-05-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
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After decades on the decline intro, America's labor movement is undergoing a massive renaissance with Starbucks, Amazon and Apple Store employees leading the way. Though the tech sector has only just begun basking in the newfound glow of collective bargaining rights, the automotive industry has... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2022-05-01 14:00:34 UTC ]
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In 1995, I left the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle to teach English in Vietnam. Around that time, my friend and fellow bookseller Janet Brown traveled to Thailand to teach as well. There was no email then, and overseas phone calls were a luxury. So we wrote to one another, meditating on the... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?”, we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This month, we’re featuring Jason Schwartzman, an essayist, and fiction writer, and author of the memoir No One You Know: Strangers... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-27 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Matthieu Aikins’s olive complexion, dark hair, and ambiguous features means that he is often mistaken as a local in Afghanistan and the Middle East where he has lived since 2008. In his non-fiction book The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, the Japanese Canadian journalist goes undercover as an Afghan... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
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In today’s “why do we have to share a country with these jackasses” news, the board of the public library of Enid and Garfield County in Enid, Oklahoma, voted 3-2 to ban “book displays and library programs that focus on sexual content”—which resulted in the library cancelling not only an adult... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-04-20 17:26:39 UTC ]
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The theatre is a perennially popular setting for novelists and no wonder. The tawdry glamour and sense of spectacle make it a rich gift for any author, but it’s what happens behind the scenes that I find the most interesting. This is particularly true for those novels set on the 19th-century... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-14 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Annie Hartnett's 'Unlikely Animals' lands on two lists, mythological retellings make a splash, and more in April's book club picks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
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"Today" show book club pick "Memphis" traces the lives of three generations of Black women. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-04-12 14:16:05 UTC ]
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Aamina Ahmad’s debut novel The Return of Faraz Ali begins with a moment of no return. Born and raised in Lahore’s old city, the young Faraz is forced to leave behind his mother and his sister Rozina. It isn’t until Faraz is an adult in 1968 working as a policeman, that he goes back to […] The... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds begins in the time before time and follows the uneasy truce between the living and the dead. Cigarettes are offered, liquor is poured, prayers are said, all in the hope that the buried stay buried. This is the story of Yejide, a young woman who... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-04-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty years ago, Oprah Winfrey ended the first incarnation of Oprah’s Book Club, which made its authors instant bestsellers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The grocery store of all places was my initial indoctrination into the world of horror. As my father shuffled up and down the aisles, dutifully stacking groceries in the cart for our family, I would sneak away to the magazine section and my eye was always drawn to the shiny paperback display... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-03-31 11:00:00 UTC ]
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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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In Sensorium by Tanaïs is, at once, a sensuous and gut-wrenching experience in expansive memoir that bleeds across genre and time. Using perfume as a framework, Tanaïs builds the work slowly, moving from the base to the heart to the head notes, recounting alienation and life on the margins as a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-03-25 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble, 'Good Morning America,' and other big clubs look toward the summer and believe in love in this month's book club picks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The Brazilian Publishers at Bologna will have an SDG Book Club Portuguese display, as the IPA wraps up these curations for kids. The post IPA and Brazilian Publishers: SDG Book Club at Bologna appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-03-17 16:46:49 UTC ]
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You'll be telling everyone about your latest group picks with these book club goods for your body, your tote, your notes, and more. - Kelly Jensen Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2022-03-14 10:33:00 UTC ]
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At the risk of seeming obnoxiously obsessed with ourselves, writers and readers do tend to love books about writers and readers—especially when those fictional writers and readers behave badly. (It’s no wonder, really, why the Bad Art Friend discourse hit a nerve; so many people were frantic... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2022-03-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Tessa Bailey lands at #3 on our trade paperback list with her latest rom-com, 'Hook, Line, and Sinker." Plus V.E. Schwab's YA fantasy novel 'Gallant' is #2 on our children's fiction list, and a trio of March book club picks claim their spots on our hardcover fiction list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
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