“We’re seeing a lot of patients with these symptoms. Have you been normalizing copious amounts of insanity?” Source link Read more »
When did you last experience total silence? In Hark, the author Alice Vincent goes to extreme lengths to eradicate noise as she spends time in an anechoic chamber, a heavily soundproofed space designed... Read more »
Mark Peploe, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who collaborated with some of the greatest names in European film-making including Michelangelo Antonioni and Bernardo Bertolucci, has died aged 82. Peploe’s family told the Guardian he... Read more »
“Does attending a Bruce Springsteen concert count as political activism now?” Source link Read more »
The author page of “Next to Heaven,” James Frey’s new novel, breathlessly notes that Frey “was called America’s Most Notorious Author by Time Magazine and the Bad Boy of American Literature by... Read more »
Every Monday and Wednesday, dozens of migrants converge on a block of 34th Avenue in eastern Jackson Heights as part of the work of the Jackson Heights Immigrant Center (JHIC). They sit... Read more »
Summer isn’t only about beach reads, and really, you can read anything you want on the beach. Titles being released this July include books weighty in content, size, or both, and below... Read more »
BookCon will return in 2026 Jun 18 2025 Five years after “retiring” BookCon and BookExpo, ReedPop has announced—to the surprise of many in the book business—that it plans to revive BookCon. The... Read more »
Carla Hayden to speak at 2025 ALA conference Jun 13 2025 The American Library Association has announced that Carla Hayden, who was fired from her job as the Librarian of Congress by... Read more »