May 20 2019: In 2015, with the purchase of the Shakespeare & Co. name in the U.S. and the successful acquisition of a lease to the store’s former 5,000 sq. ft. location on Lexington Ave. on New York’s Upper East side, Dane Neller, cofounder and CEO of On Demand Books (the maker of ...
May 20 2019: The bestselling author who accused her husband of poisoning her was jailed for direct contempt after a court hearing last month.
Kenyon was accused of calling one of her husband's attorneys a "f---ing liar" as she abruptly left the courtroom during the hearing on ...
May 17 2019: Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Navy drama The Caine Mutiny, whose sweeping novels about World War II, the Holocaust and the creation of Israel made him one of the most popular writers of his generation and helped revitalize the genre of historical...
May 17 2019: In an opinion piece in the New York Times, novelist Elena Ferrante states that power is "a story told by women. For centuries, men have colonized storytelling. That era is over.
".... In the beginning I didn’t know that storytelling was a kind of power. I became ...
May 14 2019: Faber emerged victorious at the British Book Awards 2019 on Monday evening (13th May), with Sally Rooney’s Normal People scooping the coveted Book of the Year award. The book had earlier won the Fiction Book of the Year prize, while Faber stablemate Leila Slimani’s ...
May 09 2019: Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities, living alongside those without them, has died aged 90.
In August 1964, having giving up his job teaching philosophy at the University of Toronto, he bought a small, rundown house ...
May 08 2019: The Poetry Foundation has announced Marilyn Nelson as the winner of the 2019 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Naomi Shihab Nye the 2019–2021 Young People’s Poet Laureate, and Terrance Hayes winner of the 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. The awards are sponsored and ...
May 04 2019: Novelist Ben Dolnick waxes lyrical on the benefits or ditching Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to:
One night a couple of summers ago, the power went out and, unable to watch Netflix or engage in my customary internet fugue, I lit a...
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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