Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Ryan O'Connor, The Voids

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This is a phenomenal novel I can't recommend enough. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy today. See, Ryan O'Connor, The Voids .
Friday, February 3, 2023

'The Cult of Book Ownership'

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Just when you think you've seen it all.  I'm confused. I thought it was supposed to be right-wingers who are against books. pic.twit...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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At Amazon, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text .
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Corporate Consolidation in Publishing Industry Downshifts After Penguin's Bid to Acquire Simon & Schuster Collapses

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Even Stephen King was against the merger, which was very likely to hurt the little people in the publishing world, those who don't have ...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

Tess Gunty Wins National Book Award for Her Novel, The Rabbit Hutch

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I picked up a copy of the book. Check it out, The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel . She's young and beautiful.
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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This book is hilarious. At Amazon, Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation .
Monday, August 15, 2022

We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning

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From Bari Weiss, " Words are not violence. Violence is violence ": The words are violence crowd is right about the power of langua...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Salman Rusdie, The Satanic Verses

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From earlier, " Author Salman Rushdie Attacked During Speech in Chautauqua, New York: 'Multiple Stab Wounds' ." And at Ama...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Author Salman Rushdie Attacked During Speech in Chautauqua, New York: 'Multiple Stab Wounds'

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Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini placed a fatwa (death warrant) on Rusdie in 1989. Obviously claims that Muslims no longer adhere to it are fa...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

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There are some very enthusiastic plaudits for ths book. I'm looking forward to reading it. At Amazon, Antonia Angress, Sirens & M...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place

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An brilliant novel, first published in 1947, by Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place .
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster Antitrust Case Goes to Court

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Opening arguments were held yesterday.  The attorney for Penguin Random House, Daniel Petrocelli, is a freakin' firecracker. At the New ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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At Amazon, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow  (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) .
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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At Amazon, Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise: A Novel .

The Deracination of Literature

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From Mary Gaitskill, at UnHerd, " We have fallen out of love with good writing ": ... More recently, in 2019, Joyce Carol Oates ca...
Monday, April 18, 2022

A Student's Perspective on Book Banning

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From By Sungjoo Yoon, " I’m a High School Junior. Let’s Talk About ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘Mockingbird ": BURBANK, Calif. — In lat...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Anne Rice, Interview With a Vampire

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At Amazon, Anne Rice, Interview With a Vampire .
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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At Amazon, Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads: A Novel .
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Alex Haley's 'Roots'

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An all-time American classic, no question. At Amazon, Roots .
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

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At Amazon, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (Vintage International) .