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13 eerily good books to read this Halloween
In the mood for a frightfully good read this Halloween? We have put together a list of 13 haunting horror books for those looking for a reading trick and treat! Never Whistle at Night is a short story anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Random House) A collection of Indigenous dark fiction…
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Getting Lit…literature that is
Ever heard college students complain about all the “unnecessary” courses they have to take to earn a degree? If they knew what they needed for a successful career, and more importantly, a successful life as a contributing member of society, they’d keep their mouths shut and study the “useless” course placed in front of them.…
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Jenna’s November book pick is a ‘dazzling’ international debut
Jenna Bush Hager’s next Read With Jenna book club pick will take you to the lush metropolis of Singapore, just as the first signs of winter to start to settle in. “The Sun Sets in Singapore” by Kehinde Fadipe, Jenna’s pick for November, is set amid the hustle and bustle of Singapore, where three Nigerian…
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Editorial: Huntington Beach will let neighbors censor neighbors’ reading choices. That’s wrong
From now on a panel of 21 appointed residents will screen all new books for sexual content headed for the children’s and teen’s sections of the Huntington Beach Public Library, as well as reviewing the ones already on the shelves. Proponents of this new regimen, including Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark, who first…
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Campus lives: books about university students for university students
In comparison to the many books set at high school (mainly thanks to the YA genre), there are relatively little books set at university. The ones that do have a university setting often focus on graduate students or lecturers, rather than eighteen and nineteen-year-olds moving to a new place and adjusting to a new way…
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7 Books That Tell A Forgotten Black British History
Photo: Courtesy of John Murray Press. The origins of Black British history (the who, what, why, when and where…) remain a constant source of confusion and contention in the UK, with many in disagreement as to how a strategically marginalised group of people came to shape the very essence of British identity. Earlier this year,…
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Jordan Miller, Cofounder of Academy Chicago Publishers, Dies at 97
Jordan Miller, who, with his late wife, Anita Miller, founded Academy Chicago Publishers in 1975, died of natural causes in Chicago on October 18. He was 97. Academy Chicago Publishers, Anita Miller told PW in a 2006 interview, was founded to publish books “no one else wanted, but that we felt should be published.” When…
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Junot Díaz on Writing as an Act of Faith
This Week in Fiction Junot Díaz on Writing as an Act of Faith Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Nina Subin Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Your story in this week’s issue, “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” features characters whom many readers will be familiar with—Yunior and his…
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Sigrid Nunez’s Art of Noticing
We began outside on Adirondack chairs still heavy with dew, the 72-year-old American novelist Sigrid Nunez preferring the shade. It was a cloudless morning in mid-August in Middlebury, Vt., and I had gone to meet Nunez, a petite woman of almost suspicious good cheer, to talk about her half-century-long writing career. She had come up…
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Her writing was admired by Hemingway. Then her books — and body
Dawn Powell on the beach, circa 1914. Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell Tim Page, the Estate of Dawn Powell This is the third story in The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island series from Radio Diaries. You can listen to the next installment on All Things Considered next Monday, and read and listen…
