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Shelf Life: Author visits, book club meetings and literary events coming to Boulder County
• Paper & Spine will hold a used book sale Friday-Tuesday during normal library hours at the Boulder Main Library; calendar.boulderlibrary.org. • Kerry Siggins will speak about her book “The Ownership Mindset” at 4 p.m. Friday at the Boulder Barnes & Noble; stores.barnesandnoble.com. • Michelle Hagood will discuss her book “The North Tower” at 11…
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Chinese publishers shine at the Frankfurt Book Fair with cultural books and booming web novel format
<img id="648287" alt="Chu Chaofu (right), president of Zhejiang University Press, poses with the English version of Liangzhu Civilization. Photo: Courtesy of Zhejiang University Press” src=”https://news.myworldfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/a9fa87eb-caa7-4e60-a3a1-39023c8031a8.jpeg”> Chu Chaofu (right), president of Zhejiang University Press, poses with the English version of Liangzhu Civilization. Photo: Courtesy of Zhejiang University Press Chinese publications about China’s rich cultural heritage, traditional…
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One Of Contemporary Literature’s Grossest Novels Is Finally Hitting The Big Screen
You know that meme about how mentally ill people love Ottessa Moshfegh’s novels? It’s me, I’m mentally ill people. While the author is best known for her novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a book often included in TikToks simplistically listing books about female rage, her lesser known debut novel Eileen earned her a…
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Let’s talk about book bans
The first week of October was Banned Books Week, a nation-wide event launched in 1982 as a response to an upsurge in book bans at the time. If you were in any book-centered physical or online spaces that week, you likely saw displays of books highlighting frequently-challenged titles. It’s unfortunate that 40 years after its…
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Opinion: How Reading Queer Books Transformed My Life
I came out as a transgender woman two years ago, the night before my 28th birthday. This public declaration occurred three months after I started taking feminizing hormones, four days after telling my parents at an O’Charley’s in Aiken and nearly seven years after realizing, for the first time, I might be a woman. Like…
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Kentucky school district bans 100+ books over anti-trans law, including one on Anne Frank
A central Kentucky school district has removed more than 100 books from its libraries in response to the state’s new anti-trans law, including a book about Anne Frank. Boyle County Schools, a small district in Danville with about 2,700 students, confirmed the removal of the books in a statement from Superintendent Mark Wade on Wednesday…
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Massive Amazon Book Sale Includes Box Sets, Manga, Graphic Novels, Gaming Art Books, And More
Amazon is running a gigantic book sale right now, giving you a chance to score novels, comic books, video game art books, guides, manga, and more for cheap. In addition to nice discounts, thousands of books are eligible for Amazon’s buy one, get one 50% off promotion. Simply add two eligible items to your cart,…
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Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial
Sometime in the early twentieth century, a large subgroup of Arabic words and expressions referring to sex and sexual organs began to disappear from printed books, as if the educated classes had signed a code of honor agreeing never to set them down on paper. This was why, when they found me guilty, the court…
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Fly fishing as literature: Author John Maclean on what ties his father, Hemingway and himself
Certain books can have an impact on your life. For John Maclean and his father Norman, it was Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River.” “I would argue that without ‘Big Two-Hearted River,’ all the Maclean books would have been written differently,” Maclean said. “I would argue further, and could never prove, that none of the Maclean…
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Chen is Reading Now and Next
While I don’t have this technology in my home, so often I visit friends and hear “Hey, Alexa,” followed by some relatively basic command to play a song or album. The AI associated with the Amazon Echo allows it to listen for this cue (to which it responds in the often-feminine voice) and deliver data…