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The Eternal Optimism of Creative Minds I wish I could say I always see the glass as half full, that a brilliant glow of optimism illuminates my every thought, but it’s not quite as straightforward as that. Even before the events of the...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
Graphic and prose novels for your speed-reading children to both breeze through and savor.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
Guy Gunaratne’s “In Our Mad and Furious City,” longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is told in alternating viewpoints after a murder roils the city.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from bookforum.com
Progressives must seize their momentum to articulate a saner foreign policyTuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
TV coverage of literary fiction has dwindled, but Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers are exceptions. “Who would have guessed that a 700-page novel would be on national TV?” one publishing executive said.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The newspaper industry is on the decline and dwindling advertising revenues is one of the primary contributing factors. How do people catch up on the latest news these days? Pew Research conducted an extensive study and found that only...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
“Selected Poems: 1950-2012,” and “Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry,” are laden with insights that, six years after Rich’s death, remain as urgent as ever.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
Whether you want to dip into a novel that evokes Midge Maisel’s New York City or pick up a sparkling history of 1950s comedy, we’ve got some recommendations for you.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
Casey Gerald’s memoir is our December pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from bookforum.com
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Might not happenTuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
Nigel Slater’s newest tome is a guidebook to the winter season, with recipes for mincemeat and flavored spirits, and history and lore.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from The Digital Reader
In the past Amazon has offered bundles that included variously a Kindle Fire tablet, case, and newspaper sub; a Kindle ereader and backpack; a Kindle, charger, and case; and at Continue reading You just finished reading Kindle Paperwhite...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Books news & info from Miami Herald in Miami, FL | MiamiHerald.com
Not many book tours play large sports arenas as if they were the latest tour by a classic rock act like an Elton John or a current pop superstar like … Click to Continue »Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from The Digital Reader
Yesterday's story about the MobiScribe ereader reminded me about a story I had been waiting a few weeks to see if it developed. The ereader importer Icarus has apparently gone Continue reading You just finished reading Another eReader...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
From fake news and plastic pollution to World Cup waistcoats and 12 Thai boys trapped in a cave, the events of 2018 at times felt overwhelming. So how better to reflect on them than The Bedside Guardian? Editor Lisa Allardice explains...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from bookforum.com
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for this year’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book. Nominees include Nana Kwami Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, Jamel Brinkely’s A Lucky Man, Francisco Cantú’s The Line...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Stuck in a Book
I’m a volunteer at the Old Fire Station in Oxford – no, I’m not sliding down poles and putting out blazes, I’m an usher for their shows. That basically means turning up early and pointing out the loos, tearing...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Recession and rising prices have left the book trade fighting for its life, with one publisher appealing to readers for help by buying books at Christmas “These are dark days for the book in Brazil”, one of the country’s leading...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from bookforum.com
The Supreme Court’s surprising decision on Planned Parenthood, explainedTuesday, December 11, 2018 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
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The writer, translator, and poet John Keene has long married a daringly experimental style with a commitment to stories that are usually omitted by history’s ellipses. It’s an approach tangible in his work as a translator, where Keene...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Books - Chicago Tribune
“Somewhere in america/ the prison bus is running on time,” writes Tongo Eisen-Martin in “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” (City Lights, $15.95), the poetry collection I turned to most in 2018. (It came out in September 2017, but I got hip to it...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Long after he was freed from the gulag, the Russian novelist lived in wilful austerity. As a centenary tribute, could I follow his routines for 24 hours? With the publication of his short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Richard Powers’s novel can be preachy, but its authentic passion for imperilled trees carries the reader through Richard Powers converted from physics to English at university after a charismatic teacher called Robert Schneider convinced...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
In “Evolution,” Eileen Myles makes us reconsider the nature of experience and imagination.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from NYT > Books
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon is going to be releasing a new firmware update for the 10th generation Kindle, which is the Kindle Paperwhite 4. Within the next few days the 5.10.1.3 package will be pushed out via WIFI and it brings a slew of new features....Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
I loved the 1978 film as a child, even though it terrified me. The remake should have kept the wild darkness, not toned it down We don’t like to think about death too much at Christmas these days, especially when it comes to children’s...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Former first lady Michelle Obama, whose memoir, "Becoming," is the best-selling book of 2018, has added more dates to her book tour, her publisher, Crown, announced Tuesday. Obama will appear at 21 additional events in the U.S., Canada...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
The concessions Macron’s government has granted to placate the Yellow Vests’ demands—a six-month moratorium on fuel-tax hikes, followed by its outright cancellation—seem too little, too late. “Doesn’t anybody up there get that we’re all...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
On this week’s show, Richard looks at whether the prose poem could be the next big thing, with poets Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Noel-Tod and Emily Berry. Claire and Sian join him in the studio to chat about their favourite books of the...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Kobo Forma is one of the best e-readers ever made and the 32GB version has been available in Canada and the US via the Kobo website for a couple of weeks. If you live outside of these countries, you can purchase it from the Good...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
I recently presented a workshop to authors on book publicity. Innovative hybrid publisher Morgan James interviewed me for their podcast series. If you would like to match a...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Led by Hay Festival founder Peter Florence, the 2019 Man Booker Prize jury features a pianist and composer, a filmmaker, a broadcaster and a publisher. The post Man Booker Prize for Fiction Announces Its 2019 Jury appeared first on...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
This happened tonight. Tonight's burrito: Pecan pie. YES I DID IT AND IT IS AMAZING THEY SAID I WAS MAD BUT WHO IS MAD NOW I ASK YOU pic.twitter.com/WLKLw7QRSs — John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 11, 2018 PLEASE NOTE: It was...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from Guardian Unlimited Books
It’s the time of year when the sanctuary of the bookstore transforms into a battlefield. Here’s how to make life easier on both sides of the counter Even at the best of times, bookshops are weird and wonderful places to work in. As one...Tuesday, December 11, 2018 from The eBook Reader Blog
Here’s a roundup of ten free Kindle ebooks to help get the week off to a good start. Amazon also has the new Kindle Paperwhite on sale, along with some of their Fire tablets, and Woot still has some older refurbished Kindles for...Monday, December 10, 2018 from NYT > Books
From Nixon’s White House to Obama’s, these books highlight presidential right-hand men and their outsize power.Monday, December 10, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
As Tana French’s latest novel—a standalone titled The Witch Elm —finds a place on more and more “best crime fiction of 2018” lists, In Reference to Murder blogger B.V. Lawson highlights this news about her series of Dublin Murder Squad...Monday, December 10, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
They keep coming! Here’s the latest stack of new books and ARCs that have arrived at the Scalzi Compound. What here is something you’d enjoy having in your own hot little hands? Tell us all in the comments.Monday, December 10, 2018 from The Digital Reader
Between its SEO, traffic analysis, and performance optimization tools (Search Console, Analytics, and PageSpeed Insights, respectively), Google supplies a number of key tools used by just about everyone who has Continue reading You just...Monday, December 10, 2018 from Books - Chicago Tribune
"In a House of Lies" by Ian Rankin, Little, Brown, 384 pages, $27 Nothing can keep Rebus — retired Detective Inspector John Rebus, for those deprived readers who haven't followed his exploits over the past 30 years — on the sidelines....Monday, December 10, 2018 from NYT > Books
In two books he wrote about rudeness and how to avoid it. He also started a program to encourage the practice of good manners.Monday, December 10, 2018 from NYT > Books
Peter Sagal, the host of “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” on NPR, writes about the rigors and rewards of his life as a runner in “The Incomplete Book of Running.”Monday, December 10, 2018 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Prolific British spy novelist John le Carré is 87, but he's showing no signs of slowing down. The author will release his 25th novel next year, his publisher announced on Monday. "Agent Running in the Field" will be released on Oct. 22,...Monday, December 10, 2018 from bookforum.com
Our need for (good) philosophyMonday, December 10, 2018 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
These five new SF and fantasy books will keep you staying up late during the long winter nights.Monday, December 10, 2018 from NYT > Books
The Book Review’s poetry columnist, David Orr, picks 10 collections worth your attention.Monday, December 10, 2018 from NYT > Books
The writer’s archive, which has just been bought by Yale, includes his voluminous diaries and other private handmade books.