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Friday, September 18, 2020

Evil Under the Blu-Ray

September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Death on the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor, Evil Under the Sun, Gal Gadot, Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, Miss Marple, Murder On The Orient Express, Peter Ustinov, The Mirror Crack'd

Why are Agatha Christie movies so bad?

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Groomed

September 15, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Grown, Tiffany B. Jackson

YA novel ‘Grown’ highlights the dangers for teenage Black girls in relationships with older men

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I’m Reading the Booker Prize Long List Novels So You Don’t Have To

September 14, 2020September 16, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Apeirogon, Booker Prize, Colum McCann, Douglas Stuart, Kiley Reid, Lee Child, Shuggie Bain, Such a Fun Age, This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga

They are sad and also depressing

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I Went to a Book Fair During the Pandemic…In Lisbon

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments António Lobo Antunes, Book Expo, Feira do Livro, Frankfurt Book Fair, João Tordo, Jose Saramago, Lisbon, Livros do Brasil

Portugal’s annual literary event, Feira do Livro, carries on as others fold

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What the Dickens?

September 11, 2020September 18, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Armando Iannucci, Ben Whishaw, David Copperfield, Dev Patel, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar

Armando Iannucci’s sour, indifferent adaptation of ‘David Copperfield’

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‘Dune’ is the Mind-Killer

September 10, 2020September 15, 2020 Scott Gold 0 Comments Charlotte Rampling, David Lynch, Denis Villenueve, Dune, Frank Herbert, Hans Zimmer, Josh Brolin, Kyle MacLachlan, Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya

The Sleeper has awakened! (again): A lifelong ‘Dune’ fanboy on the new trailer for Denis Villenueve’s psychedelic space epic

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Quoth ‘The Raven’

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Philip Fracassi 0 Comments Jonathan Janz, Josh Malerman, The Dark Tower, The Dismembered, The Raven

An interview with horror writer Jonathan Janz

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Jordan Marie Green Plays with ‘Fire’

September 2, 2020September 8, 2020 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments Dancing With Fire, Flatiron Books, Hawai'i, Jordan Marie Green, Macmillan, Melanie Conklin

Another YA author pulls book after criticism about cultural representation

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Powell’s Books Takes a Stand

September 2, 2020September 4, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments ABA, Amazon, Bevis, Chatwin Books, Powell's, Skylight Books, The Strand

Portland indie giant will no longer sell on Amazon

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Dennis Cooper and the Book of the Moving Image

August 31, 2020August 30, 2020 Marcus Mamourian 0 Comments Dennis Cooper, Robert Bresson, Zac's Drug Binge

When it comes to the gif novel, Cooper is a force of one

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Literary Agency Fires Agent for TERF-y Tweets

August 26, 2020September 1, 2020 Katie Smith 1 Comment Anya Palmer, Bethany Baptiste, Jesse Singal, Matt Belford, Sasha White, Tobias Literary Agency

Fired agent’s supporters flooded the hashtag #IStandWithSashaWhite

FICTION Young Adult

‘This is My America’ Takes On Racial Inequality

August 12, 2020August 16, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Eric Garner, Kim Johnson, Rodney King, This is My America

A fast-paced, effective debut YA novel about inequities in the criminal-justice system

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‘Utopia Avenue’ Rocks Too Softly

August 10, 2020August 13, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Between the Records, Daisy Jones And The Six, David Mitchell, Julian Tepper, Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell’s new novel could use more noise

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‘Luster’ is More Than Just Another Rom-Com

August 10, 2020August 11, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Luster, Raven Leilani

Sharply-observed debut novel lingers in discomfort

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A Good Day to Twi-Hard

August 5, 2020August 10, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Edward Cullen, Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

In ‘Midnight Sun,’ Edward Cullen is a weirdo stalker and the werewolves are still savage, but Twilight fans won’t care

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