'My Little Golden Book About Betty White,' #3 in the country, honors the last of the Golden Girls, who died December 31. Plus the month's book club picks include a pair of debut novels, and Alice Oseman's fourth Heartstopper graphic novel sends pulses racing. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
To hear Weng Pixin tell it, Let’s Not Talk Anymore started out as a kind of “fuck you” move after a particularly bad fight with her mom but—as these things tend to go—it gradually transformed into a project to locate herself within the moth-eaten story of her matrilineal line. Moving back and... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-11-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre’s new graphic novel 'Lifetime Passes' introduces the reader to 16 year-old Jackie Chavez, a teen wrestling with a tough family situation—her parents have been deported—and her friends, a collection of mostly bad apples looking out only for themselves. A seven-page... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Surely Books, a new LGBTQ+ focused imprint at Abrams ComicArts curated by comics writer Mariko Tamaki, will release its first graphic novel, 'Lifetime Passes' by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre, this month; in addition to a set of unannounced forthcoming titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Teen Book Club is aiming to reach 50,000 young people in 600 schools in a drive to raise literacy levels and encourage a love of reading. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-29 16:42:42 UTC ]
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My father, John Hitchin, who has died aged 88, was a marketing and publicity specialist in the publishing industry who spent three decades with Penguin Books, where he was responsible for a number of innovations, including the first paperback gift set and the first display “dump” bin. As... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-10-28 19:33:32 UTC ]
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From magic realism and folklore retellings to literary fiction and nonfiction, here are some of the best paperback releases for book club. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-10-28 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Alissa Sallah’s debut graphic novel 'Weeaboo'—a term that refers to a non-Japanese person who is obsessed with Japanese culture—is an engaging portrait of three high school friends about to graduate and struggling with the full-range of familiar teen academic, social, and personal challenges. A... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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PW talks with acclaimed fantasy author V.E. Schwab about her new graphic novel 'ExtraOrdinary,' and returning to her epic Villains prose series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Kate Mosse is launching a YouTube channel, including a book club featuring two non-fiction titles and a pair of fiction titles each month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-20 03:44:21 UTC ]
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The Queen’s Gambit, Bridgerton, Mindhunter, Maid: Netflix has a track record of turning books into hit television series. And though popular adaptations often drum up interest in their source material—after the show premiered, Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit landed on the New York Times... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-10-13 18:00:07 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble picks a gothic fantasy perfect for October, Oprah's Book Club gives Richard Powers's latest some love, Reese Witherspoon goes indie with her new pick, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Find your next comic in this list of Rioters' recent favorite comic and graphic novel reads. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-10-07 10:43:00 UTC ]
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In the nineteen-fifties, the Cory Book Service quietly connected a community. Then it was forgotten. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2021-10-05 21:58:03 UTC ]
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What are the best book club books for 2021? We’ve got 20 of ’em, including books like Beautiful World, Where Are You? Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-10-01 10:37:00 UTC ]
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The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
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Is this a record? No sooner has the iPhone 13 hit store shelves than the rumor mill is already up and churning about the next one. Rumors from the weekend suggest the iPhone 14 will be a “complete redesign,” but the details are thin gruel at this point. Hold not these rumors close to your chest... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-09-27 11:15:02 UTC ]
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NASA clearly needs more astronauts if programs like Artemis are to be successful, and it thinks it has a clever sales pitch: a tech-savvy comic. The space agency has released an augmented reality graphic novel, First Woman, that tells the tale of the fictional Callie Rodriguez as she becomes... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2021-09-25 20:49:55 UTC ]
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“Thao,” “Otto: A Palindrama,” “My Monster Moofy” and “The Wordy Book” explore myriad worlds within words. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-09-24 17:09:23 UTC ]
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Pupils will learn about footballer’s use of social media to highlight social and race issues he cares aboutMarcus Rashford’s much-lauded use of social media to pursue his campaign against child food poverty and persuade the UK government to expand free school meals is to be studied by pupils... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-09-22 08:45:43 UTC ]
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When I first meet a writer on the page, I pose a simple question: What don’t you ask permission for? In Yiyun Li’s case, the answer is her freedom. Individualism might seem inevitable for a woman who was born in China and whose early work responds to authoritarianism, but—reading Li—one senses... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2021-09-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
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