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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…
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Rereading My Childhood
Author Timothy C. Baker examines how our childhood reading shapes our memories and the way we see the world. By: Timothy C. Baker All childhood is an imagined world. It’s rare to find a memoir of childhood reading that does not begin with, or at least include, a love of maps; the places of fiction…
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Columbia’s Black Tea Bookshop will prize great Black writing through pop-up approach
Candace Hulsizer cherishes the exact moment, a sort of dawning, when a reader encounters someone like themselves — or their neighbors — within a story. That awareness arrives with a feeling, one Hulsizer chased in the classroom for nearly 20 years as a teacher. Now she chases that feeling toward her dream project. Black Tea Bookshop is…
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Columbia’s Black Tea Bookshop will prize great Black writing through pop-up approach
Candace Hulsizer cherishes the exact moment, a sort of dawning, when a reader encounters someone like themselves — or their neighbors — within a story. That awareness arrives with a feeling, one Hulsizer chased in the classroom for nearly 20 years as a teacher. Now she chases that feeling toward her dream project. Black Tea Bookshop is…
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Novelist Brian Duren’s new ‘Gravity’
Twin Cities novelist Brian Duren has a problem. “I don’t want to stop writing until I’ve written all the books that I’ve got in my head. But I don’t know when I’m going to stop getting books [in] my head. So this might just go on, and on, and on,” he laughed. Writing often tends…
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Novelist Brian Duren’s new ‘Gravity’
Twin Cities novelist Brian Duren has a problem. “I don’t want to stop writing until I’ve written all the books that I’ve got in my head. But I don’t know when I’m going to stop getting books [in] my head. So this might just go on, and on, and on,” he laughed. Writing often tends…
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Hemingway Manuscript, Brontë First Editions, Early Burmese Photographs: Auction Preview
At ALDE on Monday, December 4, 421 lots from the Bibliothèque Gastronomique Daniel Morcette, including a 1497 Strasbourg edition of the Ortus Sanitatis (€15,000–20,000) and a group of more than 300 wood engraved blocks for patisserie illustrations (€5,000–6,000). New England Book Auctions sells 225 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera on Tuesday, December 5. At…
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Hemingway Manuscript, Brontë First Editions, Early Burmese Photographs: Auction Preview
At ALDE on Monday, December 4, 421 lots from the Bibliothèque Gastronomique Daniel Morcette, including a 1497 Strasbourg edition of the Ortus Sanitatis (€15,000–20,000) and a group of more than 300 wood engraved blocks for patisserie illustrations (€5,000–6,000). New England Book Auctions sells 225 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera on Tuesday, December 5. At…
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A Marriage Plot for an Age When Marriage Means Little
Naoise Dolan’s “The Happy Couple” follows 20-something Dubliners hurtling toward the altar, stubbornly clinging to their self-delusions that this is what they want. THE HAPPY COUPLE, by Naoise Dolan Three years into their relationship, the 20-something Dubliners Celine and Luke still “did not, as a rule, ‘share feelings.’” Celine’s “family never taught her how,” so…
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A Marriage Plot for an Age When Marriage Means Little
Naoise Dolan’s “The Happy Couple” follows 20-something Dubliners hurtling toward the altar, stubbornly clinging to their self-delusions that this is what they want. THE HAPPY COUPLE, by Naoise Dolan Three years into their relationship, the 20-something Dubliners Celine and Luke still “did not, as a rule, ‘share feelings.’” Celine’s “family never taught her how,” so…