Book Reviews Photo by Aideal Hwa / Unsplash If reading Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot (Penguin Classics, 2021), translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz, makes you think about Stanislaw Lem’s work, you’re not alone. Indeed, both Robot and Lem’s His Master’s Voice (published in Polish just a few years apart) take up the fascinating but insoluble problem of whether or not we’re alone in the universe. One might even call Robot surrealist science fiction and liken it to Kafka’s work, or even Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, since the main character spends most of his time wandering around the halls of an underground shelter, unsure of his own identity and his place in the community that has formed following an apocalyptic event on the surface. His identity confusion derives from his “birth” on an assembly line under a kind of bell jar. Given instructions by a mysterious Mechanism to study the people living in the shelter, the protagonist proceeds as if he is a living machine given a modicum of free will (as explained by the Mechanism). Much of the novel focuses on the protagonist figuring out why those around him are living underground and why many of them believe that he is a physicist named Poreyra. Encountering strange “statues” that weigh several tons in one of the shelter’s rooms, he eventually moves through a mirror there into a replica of the stricken city, where time moves at a fraction of the speed experienced in the shelter.... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
[ World Literature Today | 2021-11-10 20:14:00 UTC ]
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TV rights to RG Adams' debut crime procedural, Allegation (riverrun) have been snapped up by producer John Giwa-Amu of Red & Black Films and executive music producer Mark Lo of Asylum Giant. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 23:15:35 UTC ]
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The modern fairytale of the Soong sisters is well known across China. Bestselling author Jung Chang looks set to bring the sisters’ stories to a global audience. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-02 02:10:10 UTC ]
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Steve Fisher is joining Adams Publishing Group as regional president of APG Media of Southern Minnesota. Before joining APG, Fisher Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-27 20:19:01 UTC ]
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Steve Fisher is joining Adams Publishing Group as regional president of APG Media of Southern Minnesota. Before joining APG, Fisher Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-27 20:19:01 UTC ]
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In “Coventry,” the British author of the widely admired “Outline” trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-09-17 09:00:10 UTC ]
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Carl Esposito, publisher of The Daily Times (Maryville/Alcoa, Tennessee) for nine years and regional president for Adams Publishing Group for Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-13 17:12:55 UTC ]
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Adam Kay has created a special Quick Reads version of his bestselling This is Going to Hurt (Picador) for the first intake of the bitesize book range since Jojo Moyes saved the scheme from closure. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-08 03:31:15 UTC ]
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Researchers have used machine-learning (a reading robot!) to read 3.5 million books published between 1900 and 2008, and tally all the adjectives used to describe men and women. Not surprisingly, women in books are beautiful and men are true-hearted! Yup, when positively described, women (or... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 13:30:07 UTC ]
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The actor, stand-up comic, and children’s book author invites readers into her head with a collection of “little weirds.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-08-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Anthropologist Franz Boas and his students challenged 20th-century prejudices, Charles King writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-16 12:46:17 UTC ]
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Interviews Mary E. Adams Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven Wives, won the 2015 Indie Book Award for best poetry collection. His other works... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2019-08-12 20:31:01 UTC ]
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“The Turn of the Key” pays scrupulous homage to James’s “The Turn of the Screw” and also slyly updates it. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Earlier this year, Google outlined upcoming changes to its marketing-leading Chrome browser that are likely to prompt seismic changes for digital media trading with the company's leading privacy executive tipping the privacy overhaul for a 2019 launch. Speaking last week at Adweek's inaugural... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-07-29 18:27:32 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has joined forces with digital platform Serial Box to publish an original psychological thriller by a team of women crime writers helmed and hand-picked by Sophie Hannah. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-29 06:07:59 UTC ]
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Amazon has begun releasing weekly UK book charts showing fiction and non-fiction bestsellers based on sales and reads, representing the first time print and digital sales have been recorded together. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-24 08:58:07 UTC ]
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The veteran editor and publisher is leaving the conservative imprint he founded at St. Martin's, All Points Books, for a currently unnamed new venture. With the move, APB will close in August 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The popular motivational speaker fought back — and won. She even got a tattoo to remind herself “to always fight for what’s right.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-07-03 16:35:07 UTC ]
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E.A. Wyke-Smith’s overlooked masterpiece “The Marvellous Land of Snergs” is silly, spooky — and charming. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-06-26 16:00:00 UTC ]
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In her latest novel, author and screenwriter Deborah Moggach delves into the relationship between us and those who care for us. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 00:42:18 UTC ]
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The pursuit of happiness shouldn’t come at the expense of one’s health and relationships, argues VisumCx founder and CEO. We all want to be happy. You’ve probably watched movies about seeking it, read books on what you need to do to achieve it, and listened to songs about finding it. If you’re... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-06-20 13:00:03 UTC ]
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