Amazon.com is revising its product review system six weeks after The Seattle Times reported on activists posting reviews to push their political and social agendas. “We are taking a close look at our policies regarding activism reviews and are considering changes,” Amazon spokesman Tom Cook said in a statement. The Times article reported on coordinated […]
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Related Post: 9 Blogs I’ve Discovered Through Curating Literature & Psychology Tolstoy Therapy Lucy, the blogger behind Tolstoy Therapy, writes on her About page: I do not encourage reading over therapy or medication, and nor am I a clinician. I’ve personally found literature to be a great way to complement my therapy and self-care, but
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Seattle Times critics’ best books of 2015 Critics offer the best books reviewed this year, 16 fiction and 16 nonfiction titles. The best celebrity memoirs of 2015 Writing in The Guardian, Viv Groskop recommends some celebrity memoirs, beginning with: The new trend? The hybrid memoir that is actually a manifesto, a diary, a collection of
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If you enjoyed a good book and you’re a woman, the critics think you’re wrong Jennifer Weiner never passes up an opportunity to lament how the world of literary criticism mistreats authors (like her) and readers of popular literature. “Every once in a while,” she explains, “a literary novel becomes tremendously popular, transcending the typical
’Tis the season for buying, giving, and donating books. Penguin Random House is embracing that spirit of generosity with the launch of #GiveaBook, a social media campaign that promotes books as holiday gifts, and also serves as an avenue to donate books to U.S. children in need via the aid organization Save the Children. Each
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To give and reconcile: Lois Lowry discusses childhood, importance of fiction In a recent talk at Bowdoin College in Maine, award-winning author Lois Lowry discussed how her books in many ways reflect her own life: In a winding narrative of her life story, Lowry intertwined personal anecdotes, beginning with her childhood, with their parallels in
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It is hard to believe that a decade after his death, and a hundred years after his birth, the first play Arthur Miller wrote could be having its world premiere, but that is what will happen in London next week.”No Villain”, which Miller wrote at 20 as a literature major at the University of Michigan,
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[pullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] Is it too early for ‘best books’ lists? Nope —Seattle Times [/pullquote] I’ve waited until December 1 to start reporting on these lists, though a few of them appeared before today. 100 Notable Books of 2015 The editors of The New York Times Book Review recommend the
An old-school book lover in praise of the audiobook Brian Howe admits, “I don’t always take easily to new technology.” He still doesn’t use an e-reader—not, he explains, as an ethical matter but because texts for his obscure reading tastes, like small-press poetry, are generally not available as e-books. But, Howe says, he has become
Vanishing Point This piece is a translation of a speech given by Swedish novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard on receiving a German literary award. Here the writer explains how reading fiction helps us to understand humanity in general by focusing our awareness on individual people. What characterizes our age is “the sheer volume of images of
