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page_one_zapruda_matthew_poem_for_doom.mp3 Matthew Zapruder reads from his new poetry collection, Father’s Day , published in September by Copper Canyon Press.Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
In "Empty Hearts," Juli Zeh lures readers into a near future numb to political and social upheaval.Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
The Pulitzer finalist’s latest book is an ‘immigrant’s manifesto’. He talks about creating a media storm and why he wants to get on Fox News Suketu Mehta is tucking into a vegetarian lunch in one of his favourite Thai restaurants in New...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from NYT > Books
The former president recommended new books by Téa Obreht and Colson Whitehead, as well as well-known works by Hilary Mantel and Toni Morrison.Saturday, August 17, 2019 from NYT > Books
Nicci Gerrard wrote about the disease after it struck her father, but her new book is “full of other people’s voices and stories as well as my own.”Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Sparks fly, in both love and politics, in the latest volume of the groundbreaking series “Every aspect of our lives is governed by politics,” writes Malorie Blackman in the preface to Crossfire , the fifth book in her ground-breaking...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Crushingly self-aware protagonists, the search for a place to call home, a longing for stability ... is the millennial generation too fragmented to be defined, asks Olivia Sudjic “There’s no writing,” Bret Easton Ellis declared recently...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
I put off beginning the poet Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights , which was published earlier this year, because I was afraid it would end too quickly. I felt sure that the book’s 102 essays, most between one paragraph and three pages in...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviours who could combat the Nazi threat. They speak to the dark politics of our times News: Spiegelman’s Marvel essay ‘refused publication for...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
US bookstore sales are down 5.1% in the first six months of 2019. Sales from January through June saw over $4.59 billion in revenue, down from $4.84 billion a year ago. It is not surprising that sales are down this year, so many...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Cleared by MI5, recruited by the Kremlin … the double life of a spy who helped develop the first atomic bomb Winston Churchill believed that scientists should be “on tap, not on top”. During the second world war, he fretted that the ones...Saturday, August 17, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Most urban populations in the world are far removed from the unfolding and the consequences of global warming. […]Saturday, August 17, 2019 from Stuck in a Book
This is My Life in Books, Series Six, Day Six! It’s the final day of My Life in Books for this series – I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I have. Rounding out the week are: Sheree, whoSaturday, August 17, 2019 from NYT > Books
A child of Barbadian immigrants, Ms. Marshall drew on her upbringing to animate the lives of her characters, many of them strong women.Saturday, August 17, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Dublin is pretty at night, with the moon peeking through the clouds.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
For years Marshall was virtually the only major black woman fiction writer in the U.S., a bridge between Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and othersFriday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Review: In 'Black Light: Stories,' Kimberly King Parsons brings 'enchanting yowls' from wild TexasFriday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
This week we’ve still got David Walliams at the top of the charts with The World’s Worst Teachers 3; whilst The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris is still making waves, eighteen months after its debut, at no. 6 in the...Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
"Inland" by Téa Obreht is a sweeping story of magical realism and outcasts in the West.Friday, August 16, 2019 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
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GAME OF THRONES villain Cersei Lannister's blinding sexual need for her twin brother Jaime is more than love or lust. The disturbing truth revealed. This is why she is so unbearably unhappy all the time.Friday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
The fanfiction website Archive of Our Own — where people post stories about their favorite movies, books and TV shows — is up for a Hugo Award, one of the highest awards in sci-fi and fantasy.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Things to do in L.A.: An homage to Toni Morrison, writing at the L.A. River and other book events.Friday, August 16, 2019 from NYT > Books
Christopher Leonard’s “Kochland” is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at how a family-run business in Kansas grew into an economic and political giant.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Former President Barack Obama's reading list includes Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and Stephanie LandFriday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
It's the weekend and we're...reading! Romance, Russian expats, and Salinger short stories-- you'll find these and more filling our book bags.Friday, August 16, 2019 from NYT > Books
Ware — whose new thriller, “The Turn of the Key,” enters the list this week at No. 3 — loves haunted-house novels, especially “The Haunting of Hill House.”Friday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Former US president Barack Obama posted his summer reading list on Facebook a few days ago. As usual, it’s broad. Here it is, copied and pasted. ——- It’s August, so I wanted to let you know about a few books...Friday, August 16, 2019 from NYT > Books
Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.Friday, August 16, 2019 from NYT > Books
From Düsseldorf to Paris, Cape Cod to the Sierra Nevada, these four debut novels reveal the range and the universality of loss.Friday, August 16, 2019 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
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(Editor’s note: This is the 159th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books.) By Steven Nester Retiring from the mafia is not easy—even if one survives to old age. A Detroit mob boss with the...Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Algunos padres temen que su hijo se "atrase" al aprender a leer.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Todos los padres quieren que sus hijos tengan éxito, pero es posible que no estén seguros de cómo ayudarlos.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Con un énfasis en los resultados de los exámenes y la "alfabetización digital," existe un mito entre muchos de que la biblioteca de la escuela es irrelevante e incluso anticuada.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Los cómics tienen cualidades de superhéroe, ofreciendo beneficios para todas las edades y nivel de competencia.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Tips and tricks from a library aide.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Instead of worrying about at what age your children learn to read, focus on getting them hooked on books.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
With an emphasis on test scores and "digital literacy," there is a myth among many that the school library is irrelevant and even old-fashioned.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
In the end it doesn't matter so much what you read, only that you do.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Hay muchos elementos que intervienen en la elección de un buen libro para un niño.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
All parents want their children to succeed, but they may not be sure how to help.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
La perspectiva de una estudiante Andrea Ramos Kelly Elementary School Mi pasatiempo favorito se ha convertido en leer y escribir.Friday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
Robert Asprin's rollicking Myth Adventures books get their laughs from whimsy, lightheartedness, buddy-movie banter, and, um, comic myth-understandings. They're a welcome antidote to grimmer series.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
A student and teacher from Kelly Elementary School share why reading excites them.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
La historia leída en voz alta es una de mis formas favoritas de hacer que a los niños les gusten los libros.Friday, August 16, 2019 from Guardian Unlimited Books
Maus author says he was told the comics giant – whose chairman is a prominent Trump supporter – was trying to remain apolitical Art Spiegelman, the legendary graphic novelist behind Maus, has claimed that he was asked to remove criticism...Friday, August 16, 2019 from Books Features - Los Angeles Times
Comic books have superhero qualities, offering benefits to everyone across all ages and proficiency levels.Friday, August 16, 2019 from BREAKING NEWS: Books (2) mix ot digests
If your collaborative workflow uses PDFs exported from InDesign as an editorial tool to review a document and send comments and corrections back to the InDesign user, you really need to try this new feature. The Import PDF Comments...Friday, August 16, 2019 from NYT > Books
A Times Magazine columnist credits Sherlock Holmes and global crowdsourcing with helping her solve patients’ mysterious ailments.