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Literati 2023 concludes in Chandigarh
BySubhashree Nanda Nov 28, 2023 04:32 PM IST Share Via Copy Link Engaging conversations with renowned authors including Amish, Geetanjali Shree, chef Harpal Singh Sokhi marks the ending of the Chandigarh literature fest Invigorating conversations between brilliant minds and a captivated audience kept the energy of the final day of the 11th edition of the…
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In the battle over books, who gets to decide what’s age-appropriate at libraries?
For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call “bad books” outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison, co-founder of the group Parents Against Bad Books sees it, the best way to convince people that the library is…
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In the battle over books, who gets to decide what’s age-appropriate at libraries?
For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call “bad books” outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison, co-founder of the group Parents Against Bad Books sees it, the best way to convince people that the library is…
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A French Thriller About a Kidfluencer Gone Missing
Delphine de Vigan’s “Kids Run the Show” skewers the phenomenon of parents exposing their children to the world for personal gain. KIDS RUN THE SHOW, by Delphine de Vigan. Translated by Alison Anderson. “You have to see it to believe it,” a police officer says of a mom vlogger’s YouTube channel in Delphine de Vigan’s…
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A French Thriller About a Kidfluencer Gone Missing
Delphine de Vigan’s “Kids Run the Show” skewers the phenomenon of parents exposing their children to the world for personal gain. KIDS RUN THE SHOW, by Delphine de Vigan. Translated by Alison Anderson. “You have to see it to believe it,” a police officer says of a mom vlogger’s YouTube channel in Delphine de Vigan’s…
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A French Thriller About a Kidfluencer Gone Missing
Delphine de Vigan’s “Kids Run the Show” skewers the phenomenon of parents exposing their children to the world for personal gain. KIDS RUN THE SHOW, by Delphine de Vigan. Translated by Alison Anderson. “You have to see it to believe it,” a police officer says of a mom vlogger’s YouTube channel in Delphine de Vigan’s…
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A Crime-Solving Maid! A History of The OC! 15 new books out today.
November 28, 2023, 4:55am November is nearing its end, and, after a holiday weekend that may have been filled as much with leftovers as the kind of family drama that makes you wish for the power of invisibility, you may be coming into this week with a serious need to reset things. Fear not, Dear…
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When Publishing F. Scott Fitzgerald is the Family Business
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and career bounced between success and setbacks like the alternating current of major and minor keys in a Mozart symphony. He was born in 1896, the brink of a new century. Just as his life bridged two centuries, so does his work have a Janus-like aspect, looking back to the Romantic…
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From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books
The following essay by Tom Borders is excerpted from Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing & Bookselling in the 20th Century, edited by Buz Teacher and Janet Bukovinsky Teacher (Two Trees Press). * In 1970, Louis Borders was working in a bookstore in Boston while attending M.I.T. He suggested two start-up business ideas to…
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Literary Fiction Can Be Murder
For a bibliophile, there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book. The last place most booklovers want to be is stuck in the middle of a crowd. However, nothing can draw an introverted booklover into a crowd better than a book event. Book clubs, book conventions, book festivals, and author readings and signings…
