Top 10 badly behaved biographies | Fiction
Biography is a classic, difficult art, and biographers, those torch-bearers of one of literature’s oldest genres, tend to be scrupulous,…
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Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes
Italy is widely celebrated for having vigilantly preserved its food culture, with the result that many dishes there are still…
Hope And Rapture In The Anthropocene: A Conversation With Julie Carrick Dalton
Julie Carrick Dalton and I debuted novels on the same date in January of 2021. Not only did we launch…
Does It Matter Whether We Know What Academic Freedom Is?
IN CASE IT’S not clear, the “it” in the title of our recent book It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy,…
Making Sense of the Mess | Rutu Modan
Rutu Modan, who designed and drew our blossoming Spring Books cover, is an Israeli graphic novelist and artist who lives…
It's SPRING BREAK!
Taking a little time with the family! We’ll be back April 10th. If you just can’t live without us, you…
Martian Chronicles Complete Edition by Ray Bradbury, Subterranean Press
Since it’s initial publication by Doubleday in 1950, much has been said and written of Ray Bradbury’s seminal The Martian…
69. The Other Side of the River
The Other Side of the River (Petra Luna #2) Alda P. Dobbs. 2022. [January] 368 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence:…
I don’t really know what Kendall and Kylie Jenner are famous for.
From ONTD: Aspiring “authors” Kendall, 18, and Kylie, 16, arrived for their book signing at Barnes & Noble at…
Review: ‘True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times,’ by Robert Greenfield
TRUE WEST: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times, by Robert Greenfield The first rule of being Bob Dylan’s friend, it’s…
In Canada, the Indigenous Editors Association Widens Its Circle
Across traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories, an Indigenous Editors Association aims to shift the Canadian book industry. The IEA, founded…
Stephen King Compares Elon Musk to Tom Sawyer
Posted on November 6, 2022 Elon Musk has taken charge of Twitter and he is ruffling the feathers of the…
Ed Gorman’s blog: Now Available: Branded
Young Andy Malloy is surrounded by tragedy and trouble. His stepmother is dead. His father, accused of her murder, is…
Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin review – Vietnamese refugees adrift in Thatcher’s Britain | Fiction
The refugees fleeing the turmoil at the end of the Vietnam war became known as “boat people”. Cecile Pin’s evocative…
Beethoven’s Genome Has Been Sequenced for the First Time, Revealing Clues About the Great Composer’s Health & Family History
Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, a bit early to be subjected to the kinds of DNA analysis that have…
On Tom Comitta’s “The Nature Book”
WE WANTED IT to be true that when the pandemic happened and we were kept inside or killed, nature was…
DeepL Edizioni | Tim Parks
Introducing his new publishing house, Orville Press, at an event in Milan on February 23, Matteo Codignola, once one of…
Call Me Athena (A Novel in Verse) – Colby Cedar Smith
Summary: This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of…
Falling Angel and Angel’s Inferno, Centipede Press (2020)
[This article is from The Book Blog contributor Timothy Booksker with photos from Yegor Malinovskii.] Before we get into the…
60. Wrong Place Wrong Time
Wrong Place Wrong Time. Gillian McAllister. 2022. 402 pages. [Source: Library] First sentence: Jen is glad of the clocks going…
New YA: June 15-21.
New hardbacks: Dark Metropolis, by Jaclyn Dolamore: If you’re not in a questioning frame of mind and would like an…