National book awards: finalists use ceremony to call for Israel-Hamas ceasefire after sponsors pull out Nov 16 2023 A majority of this year’s finalists at the national book awards made a collective... Read more »
This book club spent 28 years reading “Finnegans Wake,” and now they’re starting again, and they’re not the only ones! Nov 15 2023 For a quarter century, Gerry Fialka, an experimental film-maker... Read more »
Reading other people’s opinions on a book is a fun way to decide whether you want to read it yourself. With BookBrowse’s First Impressions program, you can dive into a variety... Read more »
Zibby Media Withdraws National Book Award Sponsorship over Potential for ‘Hate Speech’ Nov 15 2023 Ahead of this year’s National Book Awards ceremony, publisher Zibby Media has withdrawn its sponsorship of the... Read more »
Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year for 2023 is “hallucinate” – a verb that gained an additional meaning this year. The original definition of the chosen word is to “seem to see,... Read more »
Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance since he was stabbed and attacked at a literary event last year when the author collected an award on Wednesday night at the Václav Havel... Read more »
“He refuses to follow the code of ethics because he’s a corruption originalist.” Source link Read more »
It is a hazard to read on an empty stomach. What is it about words that makes things taste so delicious? I can still recall the twelfth-grade English class, held just before... Read more »
Seventy years ago, before she was galactically famous, before she dropped an “a” from her first name, before she was a Broadway ingénue, before her nose bump was aspirational, before she changed... Read more »