Twitter Reveals Edit Button Under Development
Posted on April 5, 2022 Twitter revealed today it is working on an Edit button. The ability to edit a tweet has been a long-awaited Twitter feature. A tweet from
Category: Books
Stark House Mystery Classics – Ed Gorman
Pick up a copy of Stark House’s beautiful The Autumn Dead / The Night Remembers volume from Amazon today! Source link
This month’s best paperbacks: Salman Rushdie, Margo Jefferson and more | Books
Africa is Not a Country Dipo Faloyin A long-overdue corrective Although he now lives in London, writer and editor Dipo Faloyin was raised in the sprawling Nigerian metropolis of Lagos
Watch Iggy Pop Perform Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
Of the original members of the Stooges, only Iggy Pop still lives. He has by now survived a great many other cultural figures who came up from the underground and
National Poetry Month Day 23: Porsha Olayiwola
National Poetry Month Day 23: Porsha Olayiwola MARGARET GARNER CROSSES THE OHIO RIVERONLY TO GET CAUGHT AND SOLD DOWN THE MISSISSIPPIOR THE MOTHER STANDS TRIAL FOR
SF as Mode of Action: On MIT Press’s “Uneven Futures”(2022)
¤ Roger Luckhurst is professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. The post SF as Mode of Action: On MIT Press’s “Uneven Futures”(2022) appeared first
‘A Book is a Quiet Weapon’ | Carol Schaeffer
At a recycling facility outside Kyiv, the face of Vladimir Lenin gazed from the cover of a discarded biography among Russian copies of Dostoevsky, Nabokov, and Pushkin about to be
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China – Fuschia Dunlop
Summary: Food writer Fuschia Dunlop went to live in China as a student in 1994, and from the very beginning vowed to eat everything she was offered, no matter how
Suntup Press’ The Eyes of the Dragon Fine Art Print
Suntup Press, publishers of the upcoming limited edition of Stephen King’s Misery, have an ongoing collection of fine press art prints of
79. Dial A for Aunties
Dial A for Aunties. Jesse Q. Sutanto. 2021. 299 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: There is a curse in my family. It’s followed us all the way from China, where
“True, child worries about a prized ribbon being cut in half don’t measure up to adult anxieties about job security or rent increases, but that doesn’t make them any less valid or real.”
At Avidly:
Cleary is just one example of an author who wrote for a certain age range, but whose writing can benefit and engage the ages beyond. As a
Meir Shalev, Whose Novels Found Humor in Israeli Life, Dies at 74
Meir Shalev, whose novels affectionately satirizing Israel’s pioneers made him one of the nation’s leading writers, died on Tuesday at his home in the village of Alonei Abba in northern
This Week’s Bestsellers: April 17, 2023
House Warming Kate Morton’s seventh novel, Homecoming, lands at #2 on our hardcover fiction list. The author “delivers an eerie epic involving a wealthy family’s mysterious deaths in Adelaide Hills,
U.S. Postal Service Honors Shel Silverstein With Forever Stamp
Posted on August 5, 2022 The U.S. Postal Service honored poet, children’s author and illustrator Shel Silverstein with a stamp earlier this year. Silverstein’s The Giving Tree is featured on
Ed Gorman’s blog: BETTER ED
Normally I would just provide a link, but this BETTER DEAD review from Ed Gorman’s blog is so smart and trenchant (not a word you hear much these days), I just had
Top 10 badly behaved biographies | Fiction
Biography is a classic, difficult art, and biographers, those torch-bearers of one of literature’s oldest genres, tend to be scrupulous, detail-oriented obsessives. Yet under rigid control there is often a
Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes
Italy is widely celebrated for having vigilantly preserved its food culture, with the result that many dishes there are still prepared in more or less the same way they have
Hope And Rapture In The Anthropocene: A Conversation With Julie Carrick Dalton
Julie Carrick Dalton and I debuted novels on the same date in January of 2021. Not only did we launch in a pandemic, but both of our novels tackled climate
Does It Matter Whether We Know What Academic Freedom Is?
IN CASE IT’S not clear, the “it” in the title of our recent book It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom refers to academic freedom.
Making Sense of the Mess | Rutu Modan
Rutu Modan, who designed and drew our blossoming Spring Books cover, is an Israeli graphic novelist and artist who lives in Tel Aviv with her family. I first met her
It's SPRING BREAK!
Taking a little time with the family! We’ll be back April 10th. If you just can’t live without us, you can find us on Instagram, where we’ll be posting informally.
Martian Chronicles Complete Edition by Ray Bradbury, Subterranean Press
Since it’s initial publication by Doubleday in 1950, much has been said and written of Ray Bradbury’s seminal The Martian Chronicles. With little to add to that conversation, this piece instead
