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Hendrix professor publishes new Hemingway book
Hendrix College English professor Dr. Alex Vernon’s latest book, Reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls: Glossary and Commentary, will be released Jan. 30, by The Kent State University Press. Vernon is the M.E. and Ima Graves Peace Distinguished Professor of English at Hendrix.
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Largest US publisher, bestselling authors sue over Iowa book ban
DES MOINES, Iowa — The largest publisher in America and several bestselling authors joined Iowa’s teachers union in challenging the state’s new education law that bans books depicting sexual activity in schools. The Iowa State Education Association, Penguin Random House and four authors — Laurie Halse Anderson; John Green; Malinda Lo; and Jodi Picoult —…
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Reading with Robert: 7News visits Langley Elementary School in NE DC
WASHINGTON (7News) — This week, 7News’ Robert Burton visited first and second graders at Langley Elementary School in NE D.C. Robert read them a book titled “The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do” by Ashley Spires. In the book Lou and her friends pretend to be pirates. There’s only one problem. Lou has to climb a tree…
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3 Questions: Wiebke Denecke on a landmark project for Chinese literature
Nuns writing fine poetry. Centuries-old joke books. An epic travelogue ending with a visit to Genghis Khan. These are just a few things readers can experience through the new Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, published by Oxford University Press. The series is modeled on the Loeb Classical Library, which debuted in 1912 and features…
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The Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2023
Books that bring smiles to both children’s and their parents’ faces are always welcome, but perhaps never more so than now. The list of this year’s best Jewish children’s books includes stories set in modern Israel, 12th-century China, and, of course, the early-20th-century Lower East Side. Stories about relationships with friends and parents and bar/bat…
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Local poet from Guam is the first Pacific Islander to win a National Book Award
Guam native Craig Santos Perez is the first Pacific Islander to win the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry — and the first Pacific Islander to win in any category. “So I just assumed I wasn’t gonna win, so I didn’t prepare a speech or anything,” he said. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa English…
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Analysing The Toxic Representations Of Love And Harmful Beauty Standards In Contemporary Romance Literature
Romantic novels have a broad readership made up of young adults and teenagers who read them as a way to escape the harsh truths of life. As alluring as the made-up worlds of romance novels may be, it is an indisputable fact that these works promote impractical notions of beauty and love that have little…
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Birch named Royal Society of Literature international fellow, signs with UQP for two new books
1 December 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two new books by Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection. The acquisitions follow Birch’s most recent book with UQP, his fourth novel, Women & Children. Said Birch: ‘I’m so excited to have signed a contract for…
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Endless Culture Wars: On Kliph Nesteroff’s “Outrageous” | Los Angeles Review of Books
REPORTS OF GRASSROOTS outrage have been greatly exaggerated. Bankrolled anger is a big business, often weaponized for money, power, or both, and “cancel culture,” as it is often described, has become an increasingly complicated political football in the digital age. However, there is one area where outrage culture has always been a potent force—popular culture.…
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4 Insightful New Essay Collections
The word “essay,” as just about every avid reader of creative nonfiction already knows, derives from the French verb essayer, meaning “to try” or “to attempt.” Essays are, fundamentally, attempts at capturing, taming, and understanding a subject, whether it be literary esoterica or the contents of the writer’s own heart. These four new essay collections…
