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Toni Morrison Collective hosts book talks, giveaways during December
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Toni Morrison’s M.A. ‘55 Nobel Prize in Literature, Cornell’s Toni Morrison Collective is partnering with Calvary Baptist Church to give away free copies of two of Morrison’s books and hold book talks in various locations during the month of December. Through a $2,500 Community Celebrations grant to Calvary…
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Best books to give for the holidays in 2023
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (12/04/2023) — If you plan to follow the “four-gift rule” this holiday season — something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read — experts from the University of Minnesota Libraries recommend choosing books from a wide range of new releases. Lisa Von Drasek, curator of the Kerlan Collection…
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Toni Morrison Collective hosts book talks, giveaways during December
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Toni Morrison’s M.A. ‘55 Nobel Prize in Literature, Cornell’s Toni Morrison Collective is partnering with Calvary Baptist Church to give away free copies of two of Morrison’s books and hold book talks in various locations during the month of December. Through a $2,500 Community Celebrations grant to Calvary…
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The Genesis of a Fictional City
Eskor David Johnson’s Pay As You Go is set in an imagined city, Polis, one that takes elements from New York to Chicago to London and magnifies them to grandiose size. Traversing Polis is an intrepid hero of sorts, Slide, whose rare mix of panache, naivety, earnestness, and humor makes him a mesmerizing act to…
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The Best Books for December 2023
If romance readers are looking for an opportunity to branch out into the paranormal world before the year ends, Lana Ferguson has the perfect steamy offering in The Fake Mate. An overall delightful experience, The Fake Mate follows two stunning doctors, Mackenzie Carter and Noah Taylor. The novel is set in a universe with both…
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Lit Hub Daily: December 4, 2023
TODAY: In 2017, Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person” is published in The New Yorker, and the internet has opinions. Also on Lit Hub: December’s best sci-fi and fantasy books • When Homo sapiens became human • Read from Samantha Harvey’s latest novel, Orbital
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One of 2023’s Must Read Suspense Thriller Novels Is Action-Packed ‘Unbridled’ by Author T. L. Barry
One of 2023’s Must Read Suspense Thriller Novels Is Action-Packed ‘Unbridled’ by Author T. L. Barry
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Garth Greenwell: On Andrew Holleran’s “Dancer from the Dance”
The novel that introduced a new post-Stonewall gay sensibility Doron Langberg, Drawing Mike (panel #1), 2020, oil and color pencil on linen diptych, 80 x 96 in. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro By his own account, the exchange of letters that opens Dancer from the Dance (1978) saved Andrew Holleran’s career. For ten years…
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Best graphic novels of 2023
Comics have always been interested in the strangeness that lurks beneath everyday life, and many of 2023’s best graphic novels dig into weird places. Why Don’t You Love Me? (Drawn & Quarterly) follows a couple struggling through parenthood and blagging their way in baffling jobs. British cartoonist Paul B Rainey builds his story from bleakly…
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Caleb Crain on Stealing from Life
This Week in Fiction Caleb Crain on Stealing from Life Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Peter Terzian Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story In “Keats at Twenty-four,” your story in this week’s issue of The New Yorker, a nameless middle-aged writer seems to have come to something of…