1952 Article continues after ad Clay Lockhart’s screams echoed half a mile down the rain-soaked beach as a late January storm swept across the Outer Hebrides – an isolated, windswept region of the archipelago in western Scotland. The rain came quickly, driven by a bitter cold wind that pierced the old, rattling window panes to
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers For fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores across the country, generously provided American Booksellers Association. Compiled, designed and distributed by The Independent Publishers Caucus. * 1. disaster club By Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)2. I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
idea for beauty of yesteryear It first came to me while driving in Texas when my two boys were young, after immersing myself in the rich Southwestern history of Anglo settler children held captive by Native American raiding parties. Many of these children not only survived, but learned the skills and lifestyle of their captors,
It’s another great week for the labor movement in publishing, at small presses and big. As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won its union election, with a majority of the group’s 134 members voting to become a unit. Chicago News Guild. In a decisive victory, 89% of workers
Simon Pare-Poupart on democratic control of waste management A book on waste management that I have had for years Garbage giants By Canadian journalist Harold Crooks. That book is my Bible. The central question it asks is an important one: is it possible to maintain democratic governance over waste management? Article continues after ad Crooks
from the collection tree of wisdom A wooden door in front of everything. a doorOn my country. A door in the lake. my poems Article continues after ad Give preference to timber hunting dogs. if i say there is aThere is a door to my heart in poetry. Now I can open this door. the
Jane Austen’s most dramatic moments emmaAnd, arguably, in his entire oeuvre, there is nothing to do with romance. After all, Emma Woodhouse’s reaction to George Knightley’s proposal occupies little space. The scene in the gardens outside Hartfield becomes hilarious when Knightley talks to Emma about her desperate, unquenchable longing, and then Austin writes “What did
Let’s say that during my twenties, all I did – literally – was write; All I could do was hope that my parents would read this, see me, grow up and care. Let’s say that during my twenties, I published three books in three genres and each time, my life got significantly worse. When book
Published by The Hogarth Press on 16 June Mania: StoriesThe 49th collection of Joyce Carol Oates. That same day, “America’s Leading Female Writer” posted and reposted 40 times on X, commenting, among other things, on Dick Cavett, Tiger Lily, cats, and, repeatedly, police brutality. A storehouse of extraordinary short stories, frenzy has already received rave
If I were 26 years old, full of urine and vinegar, and had a first poetry collection, I would consider myself a modern troublemaker. I’ll be out of my car, which will probably be a beat-up Volvo station wagon with a COEXIST bumper sticker on the rear windshield. I would push my poems to both