What is your damage, Man Booker?
Kirsten Reach
All of the prize committees are locked in a battle for the red scrunchie this week. Just as the National Book Award attendees are packing their party outfits for the… Read more »
All of the prize committees are locked in a battle for the red scrunchie this week. Just as the National Book Award attendees are packing their party outfits for the… Read more »
The New York Times has just published the latest review by staff book reviewer Michiko Kakutani — in this instance of Norman Rush’s new novel Subtle Bodies. To say that… Read more »
Bestselling author James Patterson announced on CBS This Morning yesterday that he plans to donate $1 million of his own money to independent bookstores around the country. He was on… Read more »
At The Millions earlier this month, Beth Kephart wrote on what she calls “the Outward-Looking Memoir” one which signifies, one which connects. Kephart begins, Why, in the end, do we read… Read more »
In November of 1820, the American whaling ship Essex sunk after being attacked by a gigantic sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean. The story of the ill-fated vessel, which… Read more »