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.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....Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
The first installment of an essay series on American literature and faith.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.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.”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.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...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...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.Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from NYT > Books
Rapid modernization takes its toll in Rachel Heng’s impressive epic “The Great Reclamation.”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.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.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...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...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...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...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...Monday, March 27, 2023 from NYT > Books
In Brenda Shaughnessy’s collection “Tanya,” the self is fluid and love is “timelessness itself.”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...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...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,...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...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.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...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.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.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...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....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.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...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...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...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...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.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...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...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 ,...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.Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
In “This Bird Has Flown,” the Bangles frontwoman Susanna Hoffs demonstrates her range.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.Saturday, March 25, 2023 from NYT > Books
An editor recommends old and new books.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...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.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...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...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.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.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.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...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.