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‘Parachutes’ and ‘We Are Not From Here’

June 29, 2020July 1, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Jenny Torres Sanchez, Kelly Yang, Parachutes, We Are Not From Here

Very different but equally essential stories about immigrant kids who yearn to come to America

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‘Devolution’: Evil Bigfoot Attacks!

June 25, 2020June 29, 2020 Christopher Farnsworth 0 Comments Bigfoot, Devolution, Max Brooks, Sasquatch

The latest “oral history” from Max Brooks brings back Sasquatch horror

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Critical Mess: The NBCC Implosion

June 23, 2020June 26, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Carlin Romano, Hope Wabuke, Ismail Muhammad, NBCC

The National Book Critics’ Circle’s old-guard members refuse to roll with the times

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The Defiling of Miguel de Cervantes

June 22, 2020June 23, 2020 G.L. Ford 15 Comments 1984, Antifa, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Ulysses S. Grant

Vandals in San Francisco desecrate a monument to the creator of the modern novel

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Juneteenth Book Fest Celebrates Black Authors

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, Juneteenth, Juneteenth Book Fest, Kayla Ancrum, LL McKinney, Tochi Onyebuchi

Organizers put new festival together in three weeks

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TERF Wars

June 18, 2020June 23, 2020 Katie Smith 2 Comments Andrew James Carter, Daniel Radcliffe, Dawn Ennis, Hachette, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Sara Benincasa, The Ickabog, transphobia

The strange, sad saga of J.K. Rowling, transphobe

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‘The Guest List’

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Lucy Foley, The Guest List, The Hunting Party

A great beach read for a beachless summer

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Pizza Girl, Lawn Boy, and the Vanishing 20th-Century Novel

June 15, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jonathan Evison, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Lawn Boy, Pizza Girl

Not everything is autofiction

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‘Artemis Fowl’, Artless and Foul

June 13, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Artemis Fowl, Colin Farrell, Eoin Colfer, Ferdia Shaw, Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Nonso Anozie

It needed help from the faeries

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Your New Night ‘Out’ is an Online Silent Reading Party

June 10, 2020June 9, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments Carmen Maria Machado, Silent Reading, The Stranger

Seattle’s The Stranger hosts a weekly Zoom meeting for lonely readers

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Literary Agent Gets Cancelled, Fires Her Whole Staff

June 4, 2020June 10, 2020 Katie Smith 19 Comments

Marisa Corvisiero didn’t want them “caught in the crossfire.”

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A Reading List of Books By Black Authors

June 3, 2020June 12, 2020 Katharine Coldiron 0 Comments Alice Randall, Bethany C. Morrow, Cadwell Turnbull, Ebony Flowers, Hanif Abdurraqib, Hot Comb, How To Exterminate The Black Woman, Jabari Asim, MEM, Monica Prince, Nella Larsen, Passing, Riot Baby, Sarah M. Broom, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, The Lesson, The Wind Done Gone, The Yellow House, Tochi Onyebuchi, We Can’t Breathe

I can read. It’s better than doing nothing.

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“Now Is The Time”

June 1, 2020June 3, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All American Boys, Black Lives Matter, Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds

In online conversation, authors of ‘All American Boys’ plead for white families to join the conversation on race

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‘The Ickabog’: a Surprise Serialized Kids’ Book from J.K. Rowling

May 26, 2020May 29, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog

Harry Potter creator to donate all proceeds to COVID-19 charities

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Laird Barron: the BFG Interview

May 26, 2020May 29, 2020 Philip Fracassi 0 Comments Laird Barron, Peter Straub, Worse Angels

Popular genre author on horror, crime, and his new novel, Worse Angels

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