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F. Scott Fitzgerald Saw It All Coming

May 24, 2022May 27, 2022 Michael Washburn 4 Comments F. Scott Fitzgerald, Haruki Murakami, Tender is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon

The Jazz Age and the modern age aren’t so different

Muted

FICTION NON-FICTION Young Adult

The Best YA Abduction Stories

May 24, 2022May 26, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Abduction, Brie Larson, Carolyn Lee Adams, Elizabeth Scott, Ellen Emerson White, Emma Donoghue, Grown, Janie Johnson, Jayce Dugard, Kathy Bates, Luanne Rice, Lucy Christopher, Muted, Natasha Preston, Stephen King, Stolen, Tami Charles, The Cellar, Tiffany D. Jackson

Teens love the genre, as long as the abductees eventually escape

Hawaii

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The Best Books, Movies, and TV Shows About the Real Hawaii

May 23, 2022May 25, 2022 Jake Harris 1 Comment Aloha Rodeo, August at Akiko’s, Blue Skin of the Sea, Doogie Kamealoha, Finding Ohana, Five Decembers, Hawai'i, The Descendants, The White Lotus, Young Rock

Multi-dimensional portraits of a complex place

Pinkwater

FICTION Young Adult

Daniel Pinkwater is Still Going

May 18, 2022May 23, 2022 Christopher Farnsworth 2 Comments Crazy in Poughkeepsie, Daniel Pinkwater, Lizard Music

‘Crazy In Poughkeepsie’, the latest novel from the original writer of books about weird outsider teens

Texas

Texas Triangles

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Amanda Eyre Ward, May Cobb, My Summer Darlings, The Lifeguards

Women take center stage in these juicy beach reads about the strayed bonds of friendship

Janelle Monáe's writing

Janelle Monáe’s Writing Is Still Joyously Queer

May 16, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Moonlight, Sheree Renée Thomas, The Memory Librarian, Yohanca Delgado

Grammy-nominated singer and actor turns to Afrocentric sci-fi

Houellebecq

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Houellebecq and the French Election

April 27, 2022May 12, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Cécile Prieur, Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

France’s most vilified living author understands certain parts of the electorate very well

Something To Do With Paying Attention

The David Foster Wallace Tax

April 19, 2022April 23, 2022 Michael Washburn 1 Comment David Foster Wallace, Something To Do With Paying Attention, The Pale King

DFW’s (reissued) final novella considers the IRS

Plum Creek

FICTION Politics Young Adult

The Plum Creek Literacy Festival is Now an Anti-LGBTQ “Ministry”

April 18, 2022April 29, 2022 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Anne Ursu, Concordia University, Eliot Schrefer, Kelly Gallagher, Plum Creek Literacy Festival

Controversy continues to swirl around Concordia University young-adult book fair

Sea of Tranquility

Sea, I Told You So

April 11, 2022April 14, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel

‘Sea of Tranquility’, Emily St. John Mandel’s achingly personal novel about the pandemic

Dick Awards

A Sure Bet for This Year’s Philip K. Dick Awards

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Bug, Dead Space, Defekt, Far From the Light of Heaven, Giacomo Sartori, Jason Sanford, Kali Wallace, Lavie Tidier, Nino Capri, Philip K. Dick Awards, Plague Birds, Take Thompson, The Escapement

Pick a nominee, any nominee

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

FICTION Young Adult

The Undeniable Appeal of the YA Whodunnit

March 23, 2022April 10, 2022 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Courtney Summers, E. Lockhart, Genuine Fraud, Holly Jackson, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Jessica Goodman, Karen McManus, Maureen Johnson, Monday's Not Coming, Natasha Preston, One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, Stephanie Perkins, The Inheritance Games, The Lake, There's Someone Inside Your House, They Wish They Were Us, Tiffany D. Jackson, Truly Devious

Just as mysterious as adult cozies, but not as self-absorbed

Soft Censorship

FICTION Young Adult

The Insidious Rise of ‘Soft Censorship’

March 14, 2022March 23, 2022 Sharyn Vane 4 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Brandy Colbert, Kari Lavelle, Round Rock ISD, We Need Diverse Books

YA authors face canceled events, shadow bans, and other quiet dismissals of their work

Ulysses

‘Ulysses’ Goes to War

March 2, 2022March 6, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Dubliners, James Joyce, Maureen Dowd, Ulysses, Vicki Mahaffey

A century on, James Joyce’s masterwork still provokes controversy

Anatomy: A Love Story

FICTION Young Adult

‘Anatomy: A Love Story’

February 28, 2022 Rob Kutner 0 Comments Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz, Noble Blood

Dana Schwartz’s novel is a YA period piece with modern guts

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