LITERARY OR GENRE, IT’S THE PLOT THAT COUNTS When you read a novel, which aspect of the fiction is more important to you, characterization or plot? This is a common question, yet for a long time now I’ve thought it’s not exactly the right question, or at least not the best way to look at […]
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The editors have selected more than 700 adult titles for this feature (fall children’s announcements will appear in the July 18, 2016 issue) in anticipation of their attracting attention and, of course, generating sales. Our mission is to offer booksellers and librarians a helping hand in finding books to order and promote in the upcoming
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On Novels and Novelists My 10 Favorite Books: Michael Cunningham Author MIchael Cunningham lists the 10 (really 11) books he’d want with him if he were stranded on a deserted island. The Author of ‘The Nest’ on How She Got Up the Courage to Write Here’s an interview with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of the
Watch out: That message might not be from who you think. Source: Hackers are using this nasty text-message trick to break into people’s accounts Earlier this week, Alex MacCaw, cofounder of data API company Clearbit, shared a screenshot of a text attempting to trick its way past two-factor authentication (2FA) on a Google account. Please
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Recent Articles on Books, Authors, and All Things Literary Seattle’s new Youth Poet Laureate has no home — but she does have a book deal What a great local story about the power of the human spirit—and of the written word. The judges were unaware of Angel Gardner’s background and current living situation when they
On Wednesday 8th June 2016 at the Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London, Irish author Lisa McInerney was announced the winner of the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Glorious Heresies. Source: BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction » Announcing the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Books on the short list.
Book Marks will showcase critics from the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in America, aggregating reviews from over 70 sources—newspapers, magazines, and websites—and averaging them into a letter grade, as well as linking back to their source. Each book’s cumulative grade functions as both a general critical assessment, and, more significantly, as
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The Classics Spin #13 I love these Classics Spins because they get me reading the books on my list when I might otherwise avoid them. Here’s how it works: I list 20 books here that I have yet to read from my original list of 50+ classics. Tomorrow, June 6, the Classics Club will announce
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Recent Articles on Books, Authors, and All Things Literary Middle Eastern Writers Find Refuge in the Dystopian Novel Because literature reflects the culture that produces it: Five years after the popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and elsewhere, a bleak, apocalyptic strain of post-revolutionary literature has taken root in the region. Some writers are using
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Original publication date: 1857 Translated by Lydia Davis (Penguin Books, 2010) Highly recommended Madame Bovary is a seminal work in the rise of literary realism: an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers,
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