‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing | Biography books

‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing | Biography books

Every day I meet strangers who share intimate details with me. It’s called reading. In a newspaper piece a former sex addict recalls her need for BDSM (“when a sexual partner hurt... Read more »
Margareta Magnusson, Swedish ‘death cleaning’ author, dies age 92 | Books

Margareta Magnusson, Swedish ‘death cleaning’ author, dies age 92 | Books

Swedish author and artist Margareta Magnusson, whose book on “death cleaning” became a global phenomenon, has died aged 92. Magnusson’s 2017 book, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, introduced international readers... Read more »
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash review – clever comedy for our conspiracy theory age | Fiction

Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash review – clever comedy for our conspiracy theory age | Fiction

Making the comic novel succeed is a rich, tricky project in our age of desperate, sometimes weirdly eager apocalypticism. Madeline Cash has spotted that a combination of tenderness and satire may be precisely... Read more »
Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

My earliest reading memory When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach... Read more »
Teenage Daydream by Debsey Wykes review – coming of age in an all-girl guitar band | Autobiography and memoir

Teenage Daydream by Debsey Wykes review – coming of age in an all-girl guitar band | Autobiography and memoir

The Cambridge post-punk band Dolly Mixture were an all-girl trio who formed at school and mixed rambunctious self-penned songs such as Will He Kiss Me Tonight? and Been Teen with covers of... Read more »
Teenage Daydream by Debsey Wykes review – coming of age in an all-girl guitar band | Autobiography and memoir

Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)

The AAPI- and woman-owned Cupid’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore located in the vibrant Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, specializes in the romance genre, and it brims with feminine aesthetics, bookish merchandise, new romance... Read more »
‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing | Biography books

New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age

The years 1989–2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years—specifically the post-baby... Read more »
‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age | Books

‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age | Books

The videos often begin with every bibliophile’s nightmare: a person ripping the covers off a book. They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part in a growing trend for replacing... Read more »
Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’ | Books

More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows

More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows Apr 30 2024 Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers... Read more »
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