author of You will not be free from this Lit Hub takes questionnaire Rachel Aviv’s new book, You will not be free from this, Now Alfred A. Available from Knopf, so we asked him a few questions about writer’s block, writing routines, favorite books, and more. * What was the first book you fell in
Maris Kreizman on the joy (and pain) of downsizing “Books make me so crazy.” This is what my friend, who works part-time as a mover, told me when she found out that my husband and I had found a new place to live and I had a lot of books I needed to pack. A
The best of literary internet Today: 1764 Anne Radcliffe is born. Remembering the great Tom Stoppard (and a night at the theatre) on his London Remembrance Day. | Lit Hub Why do we feel good when a new bomb enters the villa? Anna Peel searches for eternal pantomime love island. | lit hub tv William
Celebrating the life and writings of a literary giant Today in London many people from the literary world will inaugurate the memorial day of late playwright Tom Stoppard. Ceremony focuses on renaming the Duke of York’s Theater In honor of Stoppard Exactly as a spirited revival of his masterpiece arcadia Returns to the West End.
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