• Bill Zehme, Author With a Knack for Humanizing the Famous, Dies at 64
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    A prolific biographer, he charmed his way into access to, and insights about, Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson and many others.
  • PocketBook InkPad 4 e-reader is now available with a built-in speaker
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Pocketbook has just announced the Pocketbook InkPad 4 e-reader. The device features a 7.8-inch screen with the latest E Ink Carta 1200 generation technology, a built-in speaker, Bluetooth, and water protection with IPX8 capabilities....
  • The Prophetic
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    The first installment of an essay series on American literature and faith.
  • Reckoning with an Upbringing in a ‘Noah’s Ark’ of a Family, With ‘Two of Every Race’
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Matthew Pratt Guterl’s parents wanted a family that embodied an integrated American future. The “experiment” — his father’s word — had painfully mixed results.
  • Book Review: ‘How Not to Kill Yourself,’ by Clancy Martin
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    After 10 attempts and years of suffering and addiction, Clancy Martin describes facing the darkness in his raw memoir “How Not to Kill Yourself.”
  • Three Debut Memoirists Chart Paths of Chaos and Survival
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton’s “Black Chameleon,” Laura Cathcart Robbins’s “Stash” and Christine Barker’s “Third Girl From the Left” offer stories of perseverance and ultimate triumph.
  • Six libraries to close in Aberdeen, despite efforts to save them
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Many of the buildings are in deprived areas, say Save Aberdeen Libraries, while Aberdeen City Council argues facilities will be moved to cheaper ‘hubs’ Six of Aberdeen’s libraries will close this week after a last-ditch effort to save...
  • Points mean pages: why I’ve embraced the world of online reading challenges
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    I’ve set a goal of reading 50 books this year, and logging my progress is strangely satisfying. Some might not approve of turning reading into a game, but if it works for you, why not? This year, for the first time in my life, I signed...
  • Book Review: ‘Skinfolk,’ by Matthew Pratt Guterl
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In his memoir, “Skinfolk,” Matthew Pratt Guterl chronicles his life growing up in a multiracial family in suburban New Jersey.
  • Book Review: ‘The Great Reclamation,’ by Rachel Heng
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Rapid modernization takes its toll in Rachel Heng’s impressive epic “The Great Reclamation.”
  • Book Review: ‘The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts,’ by Soraya Palmer
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In Soraya Palmer’s debut novel, “The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts,” two sisters find solace and salvation through enduring Black diasporic tales.
  • Book Review: ‘Ada’s Room,’ by Sharon Dodua Otoo
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel, “Ada’s Room,” readers follow the many lives of one woman through unexpected eyes.
  • Touching Cloth by Fergus Butler-Gallie review – the pratfalls and pitfalls of priesthood
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Butler-Gallie’s wry memoir of his work as a Church of England priest is warm and rewarding, if tinged with disappointment When the young clergyman Fergus Butler-Gallie was asked, by the curious and the insolent, “What made you become a...
  • Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad review – drama in the West Bank
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    An actor returns to Palestine and joins a local production of Hamlet in this richly layered and elegant examination of memories and oppression Isabella Hammad impressed with her debut novel, The Parisian . The story of a Palestinian man...
  • Big Publishers are considering legal action against the pirated ebook marketplace
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Publishers appear ready to vigorously protect their rights, as evidenced by the media attention given to Sci-Hub and Z-Recent Library as well as the ongoing legal dispute with the Internet Archive. They are looking into what looks to be...
  • Huawei MatePad Paper has put voice-to-text behind a paywall
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Huawei is pulling a page of the Remarkable playbook by introducing paid features for the MatePad Paper digital paper. They have just introduced voice-to-text behind a paywall. You have to now register an account just to access the...
  • iOS 16.4 introduces page turn animations to Apple Books
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Apple unveiled iOS 16.4 and an update to iPad OS that reintroduces page-turn animations to Apple Books. This will allow people to curl when reading ebooks; you can peak and see what is on the next page. It also provides a seamless...
  • Book Review: ‘Tanya: Poems,’ by Brenda Shaughnessy
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In Brenda Shaughnessy’s collection “Tanya,” the self is fluid and love is “timelessness itself.”
  • 10 Free Kindle eBooks – March 27th
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The eBook Reader Blog
    Here’s another list of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks to help get the week off to a good start. Unfortunately Amazon already ended their sale on the Kindle Scribe and Kindle Paperwhite, but they added a coupon code to get a $25...
  • Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    The writer and critic’s memoir, Constructing a Nervous System, was described as ‘astounding and rhapsodic’ by judges Critic and author Margo Jefferson has won the 2023 Rathbones Folio prize for her memoir, described by the judges as...
  • Penguin installs book vending machine in Exeter to celebrate the publisher’s founding principle
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    A vending machine has been unveiled at Exeter St. David’s train station in the UK by Penguin Books, the site Exeter.gov.uk reported. The machine will offer a range of curated titles, including classic and contemporary fiction,...
  • Publishers demand pirated e-book site Fenlita be shut down
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    In recent times, there has been a lot of buzz around online platforms such as Sci-Hub and Z-Library, which have raised concerns among publishers regarding copyright infringement. Just a few months down the line and we seem to have...
  • A shattered family seeks rebirth in Jess Row's magnificent new novel, 'The New Earth'
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
    Jess Row's 'The New Earth' takes the Franzen-esque family novel to another level in the story of a fractured clan in the early days of Trump.
  • The big idea: how can England’s universities survive?
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    The government’s laissez-faire approach has imperilled the whole system. It’s time for a radical rethink If you listened to ministers, you’d think that there’s a crisis of “wokeness” on campus. Every young person is apparently...
  • Review: ‘A Brief History of Living Forever,’ by Jaroslav Kalfar
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Jaroslav Kalfar’s novel “A Brief History of Living Forever” is set in a future America where dead is the new old.
  • Book Review: ‘The New Earth,’ by Jess Row
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In “The New Earth,” Jess Row introduces us to the Wilcoxes, who are buffeted by racial and sexual secrets, Middle East hatreds — and literary trickery.
  • Remarkable Folio with Keyboard orders are delayed by 7-9 weeks
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Remarkable launched a publicity campaign for their new Folio case with a keyboard for the Remarkable 2. We reviewed it on our YouTube channel and raved about its functionality. It turns the e-note into a productivity machine, which...
  • Mooink removes their upcoming Kaleido 3 e-reader from their website
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Readmoo announced the Mooink Plus 2C, a new colour e-paper e-reader running E INK Kaleido 3 late last year. The company has been taking pre-orders for it for the past few months, but the device has been removed from their website....
  • ‘Nemesis’ Review: A Philip Roth Adaptation Resonates
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from NYT > Books
    The American writer’s last novel becomes surprisingly effective theater in the hands of Tiphaine Raffier at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe.
  • Garmin reportedly working on its largest watch ever
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    A mysterious new watch has surfaced on the FCC website, listed under the code name IPH-04600, Forbes reported. According to the information available in one of the documents, this watch could potentially be the largest model produced by...
  • New iReader Ocean3 e-reader is now on sale
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    The new iReader Ocean3 e-reader is now available to buy. It has been just days since the e-reader was launched and it’s good to see the e-reader is already available to order online. The Ocean3 does not break any new ground...
  • Here is how you can add third-party e-books to Apple Books on a Mac
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
    Apple Books is the one-stop Apple shop for all your e-book and audiobook requirements. All of the books that you purchase from Apple Books appear in your Apple Books library by default. However, in case you opt to obtain e-books from a...
  • New 10.3″ Kobo Elipsa 2E Details Revealed
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from The eBook Reader Blog
    For some odd reason an unboxing video of the new Kobo Elipsa 2E was uploaded to Facebook about a month ago, so it would appear that Kobo is getting set to release their second generation eNote soon. It doesn’t look like a lot has...
  • Review: ‘Lone Women,’ by Victor LaValle
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from NYT > Books
    His novel “Lone Women” follows a Black homesteader in Montana who is haunted by secrets and a dark past.
  • Karl Geary: ‘I was writing out of confusion and horror, rage and love’
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writing Before making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade , Irish-born novelist Karl...
  • Why is the Kindle Scribe so Cheap?
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from The eBook Reader Blog
    Now that Amazon has the Kindle Scribe on sale at its lowest price ever, starting at $289 for the 16GB model, it makes me wonder why the Kindle Scribe is the least expensive 10-inch ereader and eNote on the market, by a wide margin at...
  • On my radar: Ali Smith’s cultural highlights
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Poetry | The Guardian
    The award-winning Scottish author on a brilliant exhibition in Paris, a talismanic collection of new poetry and an apocalyptic novel like no other Born in Inverness in 1962, Ali Smith has published 12 novels, including How to Be Both ,...
  • John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Among the other German writers whose work he rendered into English was Arno Schmidt, whose Joycean wordplay presented a daunting challenge.
  • Book Review: ‘This Bird Has Flown,’ by Susanna Hoffs
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
    In “This Bird Has Flown,” the Bangles frontwoman Susanna Hoffs demonstrates her range.
  • A Brief History Of Drag Queen Story Hour
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
    Right-wing attempts to demonize drag storytime (and all who love it) are deeply mischaracterizing the events.
  • The Lonely Librarian, the Color of Melancholy, and Tangerines
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
    An editor recommends old and new books.
  • Diana Evans: ‘The Tory rhetoric asks us to forget, I’m trying to make sure that we don’t’
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Five years on from her acclaimed novel Ordinary People, the writer returns to explore the lives of black British Londoners. She talks about Grenfell, belonging – and how she writes to bear witness In 2019, Diana Evans’s third novel...
  • ‘Babi Yar,’ by Anatoly Kuznetsov
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
    Anatoly Kuznetsov’s documentary novel “Babi Yar” relives the Nazis’ execution of tens of thousands of Jews in 1941.
  • Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns review – a blazing debut
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Guardian Unlimited Books
    Radical politics drive this propulsive novel about social precarity and solidarity, narrated by a ride-share driver “I never tell people where exactly I am and I won’t tell you which city I live in either,” says the sceptical, sardonic...
  • Weekend podcast: Marina Hyde on Boris’s last hurrah, the world’s favourite poem, and decoding midlife fashion
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Poetry | The Guardian
    With Partygate and the former PM back in the news, we ask if we’ve finally reached peak Boris (1m35s)? With one billion streams, what makes John Cooper Clarke’s I Wanna Be Yours possibly the world’s favourite poem (8m27s)? And Viv...
  • No Prison Time for Book Thief
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
    The former publishing employee who pleaded guilty to stealing unpublished book manuscripts was ordered to be deported and to pay $88,000 in restitution.
  • Millie Bobby Brown's debut novel is inspired by grandma's 'very personal' WWII story
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
    Millie Bobby Brown of 'Stranger Things' will release her debut novel later this year. 'Nineteen Steps' is inspired by her grandma's experiences during WWII.
  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slams Republicans Deeming Rosa Parks Book 'Too Woke'
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com
    Cortez gave an impassioned House floor speech Thursday to rail against GOP efforts to censor, ban and regulate books in public schools.
  • Kindle Scribe and Kindle Paperwhite Sale, Up to $65 off
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from The eBook Reader Blog
    Amazon currently has the Kindle Scribe and Kindle Paperwhite on sale (except the Signature Edition), and Amazon’s official Kindle covers are on sale as well. It’s been a while since the last Kindle sale, and Amazon...
  • Looking for a feminist horror western? Novelist Victor LaValle is your (highly evolved) man
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
    Victor LaValle's novel 'Lone Women' reinvents the western, adding horror and a Black woman pioneer protagonist — with help from the women in his own life.
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