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[ Literrary Hub | 2023-12-15 08:22:22 UTC ]
There is so much to complain about in the book world at the current moment, from Amazon’s stranglehold on book retail to the increasing usage of generative AI to replace writers and artists of all kinds. But you’re reading this column on Thursday; I turned it in on Tuesday, Election Day. I have... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-11-07 12:52:28 UTC ]
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Heartland Fall Forum, the joint fall trade show of the Midwest Independent Booksellers and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Associations, is taking place in Milwaukee this week—and it's been a celebration of everything that makes the Midwest book world unique. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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“I was loath to jump into it,” Black List founder Franklin Leonard says of expanding into publishing. “It’s not a great look to be like, ‘I'm from Hollywood and I'm here to save you.’” Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2024-10-04 15:00:00 UTC ]
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Organizers of Frankfurt’s 2025 Guest of Honor Philippines program describe crime and mystery writing in the Philippine market. Sponsored. Publishing Perspectives Staff Report ‘More Than Solving a Mystery’ hile much of the book world is focused on the upcoming 76th edition of Frankfurter... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-04 12:00:59 UTC ]
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Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, and Richard Powers’ Playground all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 14 Rave • 7... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-27 08:59:28 UTC ]
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Fall is the season of Big Books: the mega-hyped, the much-recommended, and the written-by-celebrities. And despite the fact that we’re in a (god-forsaken) election year, the literary cup, as usual, runneth over. So how’s a discerning gal or guy to choose which Big Book to read (first)? Just like... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-23 08:56:27 UTC ]
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It’s Big Book Season again, and you know what that means: lists. (Yes, there are also lists during all the other seasons. Lists are (chaotic?) good.) It also means that it’s time again for Literary Hub’s Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which I valiantly endeavor to read all the seasonal literary... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-17 08:57:52 UTC ]
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Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry from Poets.org’s “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Dunya Mikhail. Dunya Mikhail is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Tablets: Secrets of the Clay (New Directions, 2024).... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-09 08:55:06 UTC ]
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Jo Hamya’s The Hypocrite, Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya (Pantheon) 6 Rave • 8 Positive “Glides... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:43 UTC ]
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Evan Friss’ The Bookshop, Katherine Bucknell’s Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-30 08:56:41 UTC ]
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Chicago booksellers and other literary-minded organizations are responding to the crowds in town for the Democratic National Convention by selling books, promoting causes, and, in the case of one publication, reporting on the proceedings from a literary perspective. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Some stories come and go, but there are some stories that are part of fundamental questions that the book world is asking and trying to answer. Here are the ten that I find to be the most important at the moment. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-08-21 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Contemporary literature is one of those four-dimensional things that seem to expand whenever you take a closer look. No one really knows more than a corner of it, perhaps a very large one, but a corner nevertheless. This quality, this mercuriality, of literature makes it more endless than any... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-08-16 11:05:00 UTC ]
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Take a literary road trip across America, with book recommendations for all 50 states. | Lit Hub “Although I have not inherited a physical plot, I’ve inherited dual impulses related to how I define home.” Sadiya Ansari on family, place and inheritance in South Asia and North America. | Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-14 10:30:11 UTC ]
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Susan Wojcicki, best known as the head of YouTube but also a key player in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died of lung cancer on August 9. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Navid Sinaki on Scheherazade, secrets, and finding his voice as a young, queer Iranian immigrant. | Lit Hub Memoir “What do we inherit from trauma? Complicated stories, frayed genetics, and many, many hidden secrets.” Danzy Senna, Kristopher Jansma, Rosie Schaap and more take the Lit Hub... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-08-13 10:30:55 UTC ]
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Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter, Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-31 12:18:55 UTC ]
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In case you missed it: Keanu Reeves has written a novel. Yes, it’s true: the internet’s boyfriend has teamed up with China Miéville, one of the great speculative fiction writers of all time, to produce a novel set in the world of BRZRKR—the comic book series he also created—and we here at... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-07-19 15:23:42 UTC ]
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The new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century lays out what might actually happen if China were to invade Taiwan in 2028. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2024-06-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Daniel Handler’s And Then? and Then? What Else?, and Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-05-31 08:57:50 UTC ]
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