Novelist Tim Dorsey, who mixed comedy and murder in his Serge A. Storms stories, dies at 62 ( apnews.com )
Tears of blood: A book about grief, horror, war, and immigration ( play.google.com )
I hope this is allowed here, if not, feel free to remove my post, mods...
Readers' Most Anticipated Books of October ( www.goodreads.com )
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what do you think of "Foundations of Geopolitics" By Aleksandr Dugin ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
What is Zionism? ( www.peoplesworld.org )
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Shame - Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie - 1983 ( pdfhost.io )
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On The Road - Jack Kerouac - 1957 ( pdfhost.io )
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Full-Text Search in the Largest Online Libraries, Open Access to Them, and AI Operating Their Data ( lemm.ee )
In 2023, several largest online libraries have simultaneously started to introduce search through the entire text of all books in their collections, going beyond just titles, descriptions, and book metadata....
Readers' Top 66 Horror Novels of the Past Three Years ( www.goodreads.com )
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Appreciation: How Cormac McCarthy influenced a generation - Los Angeles Times ( www.latimes.com )
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade....
MARLOWE ( www.amazon.com )
The Tea Table By Sara Lippincott ( www.edge.org )
SARA LIPPINCOTT (1938-2023) was an editor specializing in nonfiction who edited some eighty books about science for the general public including bestsellers such as Bill Bradley’s Time Present, Time Past, Timothy Ferris’s The Whole Shebang, Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics, and John McPhee’s Pulitzer prize-winning...
Ghosts of the past ( a.co )
Frederick Marini is a retired school educator and retired District School Media Director / Librarian PreK–12. He has a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin –Madison and a MS degree from UW LaCrosse. He has served on numerous local, regional, and State Boards and committees.
Zeal, Wit, and Fury: The Queer Black Modernism of Claude McKay ( lareviewofbooks.org )
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e-book from Evie Snow, free today ( sunny.garden )
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Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi ( bookriot.com )
Despite the age of consent in Mississippi being 16, no one under the age of 18 will have access to digital materials made available through public and school libraries without explicit parental/guardian permission....
I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing ( arstechnica.com )
CARESSING OLD MEMORIES ( www.amazon.com )
I grew up in the aftermath of the great depression in the rural area of north Florida. God blessed me with loving parents that instilled in me the values of honesty and kindness to others. They both came from large families that were survivors of the depression. It was their examples of pride, hard work, and ability to find a...
First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student ( scrollprize.org )
Scrolls count as books, right?...
Men Who Don’t Know Women: On Unlearning the Lessons of “Dick Lit” ( lithub.com )
The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world ( www.theguardian.com )
Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books – and the gamble has paid off.
Review: What About Men? by Caitlin Moran (The Guardian) ( www.theguardian.com )
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran review – bantz gone badA tendentious take on masculinity that takes unoriginal thoughts and confirms them in the echo chamber of TwitterStuart Jeffries Wed 12 Jul 2023 09.00 BST...
Czech-born writer Milan Kundera dies aged 94 ( www.euronews.com )
Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class ( www.france24.com )
For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness - laying bare herself and society. Deeply intimate and political work that earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to France 24’s Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where she was among...
Unreleased Books Now Impacted by Review Bombing ( archive.ph )
I guess it makes sense for this sort of thing to happen now. Goodreads doesn’t have a way to prove someone bought a book and with folks there that get review copies, probably won’t get the features. If authors didn’t have a hard enough time publishing, yet another thing to worry about.
