Ah, tradition! Just as Shakespeare wrote King Lear in quarantine, in this quarantine, rich people are buying copies of King Lear for $10,000,000. While independent bookstores are struggling during COVID—according to the American Booksellers Association, more than one independent bookstore has closed down each week since the pandemic began—the market for rare books has grown […] The post The new COVID trend? Apparently, it's buying rare books. first appeared on Literary Hub. Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day, the Lit Hub staff pens odes to ten of the best bookstores in the world. | Lit Hub Michelle Yeoh stars in American Born Chinese, the Gossip Girl creators adapt City on Fire, and two star-studded casts take on an apocalypse and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-28 10:30:36 UTC ]
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Thousands of audiobooks are on sale at Libro.FM this week in honor of Independent Bookstore Day - stock up! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-04-25 18:33:57 UTC ]
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Find out what cities across the U.S. are doing to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2023 on April 29th and get in on the fun! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2023-04-24 10:38:00 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason’s North Woods, “a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries,” which will be published by Random House in September.... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-11 14:00:21 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward’s latest novel, Let Us Descend, “a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War,” which will be published by Scribner this October. “In each book since my second... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-07 14:00:15 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Bryan Washington’s latest novel, Family Meal, coming this fall from Riverhead Books. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-21 14:00:48 UTC ]
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Lockdown in Literature, by The Editors of WLT Lit Lists [email protected] Mon, 03/20/2023 - 14:39 Photo by Jens Maes / Unsplash There has been plenty of handwringing among some over whether it’s too soon to write pandemic literature, but these... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2023-03-20 19:39:01 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is very pleased to reveal the cover for Naomi Alderman’s new novel The Future, which will be published by Simon and Schuster this November. Here’s more about the book from the publisher: A compulsive technological thriller, The Future is a tour de force of intelligence and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-03-15 14:00:10 UTC ]
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Libro.fm, which supports sales of digital audiobooks through independent bookstores in the U.S., will expand the service to the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand in July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Athena Dixon’s memoir in essays The Loneliness Files, forthcoming from Tin House this fall. Here’s a bit about the book from the publisher: In Spring 2020, the world as we knew it ground to a halt at the start of the COVID pandemic—streets emptied,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-28 15:00:10 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Ed Park’s long awaited second novel Same Bed Different Dreams, which will be published by Random House this fall. Here’s a bit about the novel from the publisher: March, 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-24 15:00:34 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s novel Promise, which Danielle Evans calls “a stunning exploration of the weight and triumph of legacy” and which will be published by Random House in July. Here’s some more about the book from the publisher: The Kindred... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-23 15:00:59 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and Center for Fiction and VCU Cabell First Novel prize finalist Lydia Kiesling’s second novel, Mobility, which this August will be the first book to be published on the new imprint from Crooked Media,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-02-13 16:01:46 UTC ]
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Here’s a piece of good literary news to start the year: a new independent bookstore named after the legendary Octavia E. Butler is opening in Pasadena, California, where the late Sci-Fi icon was born and raised. I took the leap and quit my job to open my very own bookstore. Octavia’s Bookshelf... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2023-01-03 17:31:27 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Edan Lepucki’s Time’s Mouth forthcoming from Counterpoint in August 2023. From the bestselling author of California, comes this “enthralling saga about family secrets that grow more powerful with time, set against the magical, dangerous landscape... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-15 14:30:17 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Elysha Chang’s A Quitter’s Paradise, the first book on Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Zando, forthcoming in June 2023. This debut novel examines the grief of a young woman desperate to detach from the reality of her mother’s death and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-12-08 14:30:46 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Luis Alberto Urrea’s Good Night, Irene, the latest novel from the bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Prize and NBCC finalist, which will be published by Little, Brown, this spring. Here’s how the publisher describes the novel: In 1943, Irene... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-21 13:30:51 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Stephen Buoro’s debut novel The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, which will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2023. Here’s how the publisher describes the novel: Andrew Aziza is a fifteen-year-old boy living in Kontagora in Northern... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-19 13:30:34 UTC ]
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The Hudson Valley-based Golden Notebook Bookstore will launch its publishing press next year with author Abigail Thomas's memoir 'Still Life at 80: The Next Interesting Thing.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-10-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Jai Chakrabarti’s A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness, forthcoming from Penguin Random House in February 2023. The book, comprised of 14 short stories, details what family means today across cultures, continents, and faith. The title story,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-10-12 15:00:59 UTC ]
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