The award-winning author of ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ on writing fiction for today, the tyranny of genre, and reading outside of our comfort zones. The post We’re in a Rough Place in History Right Now: The Millions Interviews Carmen Maria Machado appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at 'The Millions'
[ The Millions | 2019-10-08 16:00:06 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#writing fiction
#comfort zones
#award-winning author
The award-winning author of ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ on writing fiction for today, the tyranny of genre, and reading outside of our comfort zones. The post We’re in a Rough Place in History Right Now: The Millions Interviews Carmen Maria Machado appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2019-10-08 16:00:06 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#award-winning author
#comfort zones
#writing fiction
In the anthology “Critical Hits,” gamers like Hanif Abdurraqib, Alexander Chee and Larissa Pham explain what the medium means to them. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-11-20 10:00:28 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#anthology
#alexander chee
#hanif abdurraqib
#robert lennon
#book review
We can’t stop telling stories about pandemics, even as we wait for one to hit us. As coronavirus spreads across the world, so have headlines about the ways that storytellers, from those in Babylonia to contemporary novelists and Hollywood, have used infectious disease for narrative effect. The... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-02 16:51:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#novelists
#infectious disease
#contemporary novelists
#coronavirus spreads
#colum mccann
I first encountered Carmen Maria Machado in 2016, reading her short fiction “Horror Story” in Granta. Her innovative and acclaimed debut collection Her Body and Other Parties had not yet been published, but I scourged the internet for everything I could find. What I found were stories about... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#memoir
#electric literature
“In the Dream House” uses direct address to show readers how they, too, might fall prey to such degradation. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-05 14:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#show readers
#dream house
In the middle of Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House, CARMEN, stylized in all caps like a play script, sits across from the woman with whom she’s been in an abusive relationship (THE WOMAN IN THE DREAM HOUSE). The scene is set (“the curtain rises”) and we’re shown, “the house... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-11-05 12:00:26 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#memoir
#electric literature
#abusive relationship
#play script
#dream house
Katy Waldman reviews Carmen Maria Machado’s ”In the Dream House,“ a formally inventive memoir that recounts the author’s experience with an abusive relationship. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2019-10-31 17:04:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#memoir
#abusive relationship
#toxic relationship
#dream house
The gamble paid off for Vice President Kamala Harris. The Democratic presidential candidate's contentious Wednesday evening interview on Fox News returned nice dividends from a ratings perspective. According to final numbers from Nielsen Media Research, 7.8 million total... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-10-17 22:55:45 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#nielsen
"Writing my memoir essentially gave me the confidence that I could write fiction." The post Surrounded by Choice: The Millions Interviews Sopan Deb appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2022-07-15 10:00:16 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#memoir
#write fiction
L.A. transplant Stanley Rose's short-lived 1930s bookstore and boozy backroom became a literary haven for Chandler, Fante, Faulkner, West and many more. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookshop
#bookstore
#literary haven
#place history
The oldest bookstore in SoCal has always known its customers best, from tourists to Caltech professors and the diverse clientele that adores it today. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:37 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bookstore
#oldest bookstore
#place history
Randon Billings Noble discusses her path to essay writing, current reading life, the anthology editing process, and what's next in her career. The post Witch + Spy = Essayist: The Millions Interviews Randon Billings Noble appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2021-11-17 11:00:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#anthology
From school libraries to big city libraries and small town ones, this is one Rioter's journey through the important libraries of her life. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-08-30 10:39:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#libraries
#small town
#personal history
#school libraries
We’ve all had to adapt to the pandemic, and some have adapted more quickly than others—maybe none more so than Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One, who is touring his new book Ready Player Two on the virtual platform Roblox. The Ready Player Two promotional event will start with a Q&A... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 18:01:53 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book tour
#literary hub
#ready player
#taking place
#ernest cline
My approach to memoir writing demands a different schedule. It may be more organized. I take notes, I write in condensed bursts. I do that with poetry also, but the process is more alchemic. It’s uncontainable. It’s fluid, I can drift in another realm. The post I Didn’t Have a Plan: The Millions... Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2020-05-29 10:00:01 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#memoir
A good, long talk with the ‘Black Light’ debut author about bodies, secrets, the patriarchy, escaping it, revision, Amy Hempel, and more. The post Magic in the Mundane: The Millions Interviews Kimberly King Parsons appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
[ The Millions | 2019-08-08 16:00:50 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#debut author
#black light
Members of San Diego’s Laotian community have launched a statewide movement to get their history added to California textbooks. Lao Advocacy Organization San Diego, or LaoSD, formed last fall after then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that added lessons on the Vietnamese American refugee... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#san diego
Reviews editor Alex Crowley recommends 'Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea' by Mitchell Duneiera, a history of how the study of what came to be known as “the ghetto” in large part created the phenomenon itself. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
If you grew up in the 1980s, then you probably remember the Carmen Sandiego games and how they turned learning boring old geography into a fun, criminal-catching adventure. Netflix, Gameloft and HarperCollins Productions are bringing the Carmen Sandiego franchise back with a brand new game that... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-09-10 19:45:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#harpercollins
#lead role
#xbox consoles
#nintendo switch
The latest book by Benjamin Zephaniah follows a Trinidadian woman who boarded the Windrush to pursue her singing dream. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2022-01-22 07:13:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#benjamin zephaniah
#history books