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Can You Ever Leave a Difficult Childhood Behind?
Somehow I missed much of the late-fall hype surrounding the release of Sarah LaBrie’s No One Gets to Fall Apart (Harper)—the “Best Books...
texasmonthly.com
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Conflict in South Korea reopens the very wounds examined in this year’s Nobel laureate’s work
(Tribune News Service) — When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it...
stripes.com
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2024 Holiday Books for Kids and Teens
Get into the holiday spirit with our roundup of seasonal books for young readers, including a wintry spin on an ABCs classic, a picture book...
publishersweekly.com
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The Best New Book Releases Out December 24, 2024
New York City remains one of the best places I’ve ever lived, and it’s partially because I felt so at home there as...
bookriot.com
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Want To Write A Business Book? Here Are 10 Things You Need To Know
You've got expertise, insights, and a story to tell. You're thinking about writing a business book. But is it worth the effort? A new study...
forbes.com
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Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author
Copyright is built on a lie that most people seem to accept: artists can make a decent living from the current system of rewards that...
techdirt.com
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Goodreads’ Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.The Bloom is...
bookriot.com
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Our 10 most anticipated LGBTQ+ books of 2025
No, really, the library is open, and libraries across the country need our support now more than ever. One of the best ways you can...
pride.com
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On Leverett Pond
For decades I have thought back to a moment of terror I felt one Christmas Eve nearly fifty years ago. A freewheeling spirit runs through...
nybooks.com
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Book review: In ‘Love the Stranger,’ gentrification threatens immigrant community
‘Love the Stranger’ by Michael Sears. Soho Crime, 352 pages, $ 28.95 The changing landscape of real estate in Queens, N.Y., jumpstarts a look at a...
sun-sentinel.com
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21 of the best books by Black authors to come out in 2024
This year was a big year for Black writers. Many of 2024’s new worthwhile reads came from Black authors, from epic reimaginings of classics to...
thegrio.com
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Meet Ryan Seacrest’s sister, Meredith Seacrest Leach: she recently co-authored a children’s book with the American Idol host, worked as a producer on MasterChef, and has a daughter
Ryan Seacrest and his sister Meredith Seacrest Leach have always been super close; now they’re collaborating on a children’s book inspired by their...
scmp.com
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Sarah Jessica Parker is the perfect Booker Prize judge
As an extension of Carrie Bradshaw, she straddles the middle and high brow. The literary world is in uproar because the Booker Prize has its...
newstatesman.com
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Book Review: 'In Slavery's Wake,' a comprehensive look at slavery yesterday and today
Ever since you learned how it happened, you couldn’t get it out of your mind. People, packed like pencils in a box, tightly next...
phillytrib.com
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Kids are Bookin' It: 'God's Kiss' an enchanting tale for the holiday season - My Edmonds News
God’s Kiss by Donna Seebo Illustrated by Ed Gedrose Recommended for children of all ages Author Donna Seebo writes that “Dreams are windows into...
myedmondsnews.com
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The Knight Before Christmas
Any discussion of Christmas and literature brings to mind instantly the miserly figure of Scrooge and the ghosts in Dickens’ Christmas Carol. It is...
theimaginativeconservative.org
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Haruki Murakami's latest novel is a fight against aging
It’s an hour to midnight in mid-November. The Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York is filled with tote bag-sporting, literature-loving...
joysauce.com
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New Year, New You edited by Chris Campbell: Review by Alexandra Pierce
New Year, New You, Chris Campbell, ed. (Immortal Jellyfish Press 979-8-99077-550-3, 312pp, $ 25.00, tp). Cover by Melinda Smith. October 2024.In my...
locusmag.com
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Victoria Nordlund, I’m at the end, riding the goat with snow-white hair
I’m at the end, riding the goat with snow-white hairAfter Longfellow’s ‘The Poet’s Calendar’Just past the stiff winds & half-dead leaves...
dodgingtherain.com
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Shanghai Children's Book Fair 2024: The Chinese Children's Book Market in Brief
The 11th edition of the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair ended its three-day run on November 17. Post-event statistics from...
publishersweekly.com
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Everything to Know About the 'Fourth Wing' Books: Your Guide to the 'Empyrean' Series
Rebecca Yarros's fantasy novels have become a literary phenomenon—and there's more on the way very soon. If you needed proof that the world could...
marieclaire.com
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2024 Was Substack’s Year and a Win for Independent Media
“You are the media now.” If Oxford were to have a “phrase of the year,” it might be that single little line, which, if you...
mindmatters.ai
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‘We Will Live!’: Positive Freedom in ‘The Sympathizer’
I started rereading Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer the day after the 2024 election, and my plans for this essay immediately disintegrated. I had...
altaonline.com
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Justice Will Sellers: Humanity’s hope at Christmas
Seventy- five years ago, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, an accomplishment that was significant enough, but what he said...
yellowhammernews.com
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The struggle between wanting to know things while rejecting challenging truths
NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with author Mark Lilla about his new book, "Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know."...
npr.org
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Your Favorite Books of the 2024 Read Harder Challenge
Back in November, I sent out a survey about your experience with the 2024 Read Harder Challenge, including your favorite book you read for the...
bookriot.com
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Reviews and More From NBCC Members
Members and friends, last week, we announced our first-ever longlists for the NBCC Awards! You can find links to the lists on our awards page....
bookcritics.org
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Book Review: Pip Drysdale's new Hollywood thriller 'The Close-Up' weighs legacy against love
Drawn by sheer possibility and that magic, golden-hour light of Los Angeles, Zoe Ann Weiss moves from London to California when she gets her two-book-deal...
sfgate.com
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Briefly Noted
“Giant Love,” “Anima,” “Playworld,” and “Havoc.” Giant Love, by Julie Gilbert (Pantheon). Fusing biography and Hollywood history, this book chronicles the creation of Edna Ferber’...
newyorker.com
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Jean Adamson, who created Topsy and Tim children’s books, dies at 96
Since 1960, the homespun stories about the English twins Topsy and Tim have sold more than 25 million copies. Jean Adamson, a writer and illustrator of children’...
washingtonpost.com
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The Custodian
A poem published in The Atlantic in 2011 Edward Hirsch didn’t always write poetry for a living. He’s been a busboy, a railroad brakeman,...
theatlantic.com
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Bass Lake
For a week we walked the roadside without pavement to the lake, cooked meals in the heavy iron pan, slept in the afternoons and talked...
newyorker.com
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The Book 2025 is here
The Book, our annual compilation of exclusive lists, rankings, recognitions and more is now available to subscribers as a digital edition. If you’re...
chicagobusiness.com
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News Corp, Telstra to Sell Australian Pay TV Company Foxtel to DAZN Group
Deal will allow News Corp to narrow its focus on key growth areas News CorpNWSA0.71%increase; green up pointing triangle and Australian telecom company Telstra...
wsj.com
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Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood
Recent entries into the literature of parenting offer disparate visions of dadhood as part of a man’s private, or public, life. American literature is...
theatlantic.com
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Who Is Telling These Greek Goddesses’ Stories?
As a kid, my mom introduced me to Egyptian, Greek, and Roman mythology, reading me story after story. Later, I picked up a middle grade...
bookriot.com
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There's a new translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy.' Why?
Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno –...
npr.org
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Is News Corporation Stock Outperforming the Dow?
Valued at a market cap of $ 17.5 billion, New York-based News Corporation (NWS) is a global media and information services company. Its diverse...
barchart.com
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The 6 Best Debut Novels of the Year, According to a Major Bookworm
This year has been one for the books, literally. We’ve had sizzling love stories, bone-chilling thrillers that require day time -only reading (IYKYK),...
bestlifeonline.com
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Prelude in Grey Major
Melancholy, most beautiful word, like a sound some ancient instrument unearthed— or earthed, its fusion of cave and cloud. Or cloud, come to think, so...
newyorker.com
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A Christmas gift over 50 years in the making: Family gifts dad with book he started decades ago
Jonathan Spilde and Kaiya Spilde Johnson joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Spilde getting his Christmas children's book from college published by his own...
foxnews.com
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The Watchlist: December 2024
From NYRB Classics | The Rest Is Silence by Augusto Monterroso, translated from the Spanish by Aaron Kerner | Fiction | 176 pages | ISBN...
wordswithoutborders.org
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The movies, shows, books, and music we couldn’t stop thinking about this year
Vox’s cultural obsessions of 2024. When you see a movie or read a book that you can’t get out of your head, there’s...
vox.com
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John Short, Chocolate Snowman
CHOCOLATE SNOWMANBleak winds howl at brickwork, you curl with mulled wine, imagine me as an old man in red disguise, a candyfloss, elasticated beard. I...
dodgingtherain.com
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Opinion | Humanity’s hope at Christmas
Seventy- five years ago, William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, an accomplishment that was significant enough, but what he said...
alreporter.com
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Library to the Rescue: Ukiah opens free pantry for the community
The Ukiah Branch Library has launched a Little Free Pantry to support community members in need, according to a press release from the Mendocino...
mendofever.com
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The Best China Books of 2024, recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
From an issue of a literary magazine that brings together contemporary writing from across mainland China to books focusing on different periods of...
fivebooks.com
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Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that should be. Nothing...
newyorker.com
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In search of a new 20th-century canon
In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32...
newstatesman.com
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to sell Foxtel to Britain's DAZN for $ 2.1 bln
News Corp has agreed to sell its Australian cable TV unit Foxtel to British-owned sports network DAZN for A $ 3.4 billion ( $ 2 billion) including debt,...
thedailystar.net
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