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19 Contemporary British Novels You Need to Read Now
Perhaps my opinion here owes much to the fact that I’m Canadian and therefore still subject to excessive colonial reverence for people with cool accents and universities that date to the 13th century who put all the “u”s in the proper places in the words! But people who love books in America are, in my opinion, overly focused on contemporary American authors. Contemporary American authors are, in my opinion, not necessarily doing the best and most interesting work in fiction today, if I’m to make generalizations. I’d much prefer picking up just about any living British novelist whose last name is not Amis. But often when I name these folks people haven’t heard of them, because so much of the American book marketing machine is steadily trained on the homegrown. Here is my list of the novelists you must read to get up to snuff on British novel-writing. Bonus: None of these novels are set in Brooklyn, and vanishingly few are about writers. Charlotte Mendelson, Almost English
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Which Books Should You Read If You Want To Get Laid?
If you’re looking for complacent cogs in the machine, stay away from the Heller fan. By Nerve Staff Omnivore, a book review hub based out of London, recently announced that it's launching a new dating website to connect potential partners through their taste in literature. I can't number the times I've tried catching a commuter's eye on the MTA solely on the basis of the book they're reading. Here are Nerve's suggestions for the sexiest, most personal books you can and should be reading in public. Women and men of the world: please, buy them, read them, celebrate them, and then talk to us about them over a bottle of wine. 1. Just Kids is one of the most attractive books you could catch someone reading over a cup of coffee. 2. Despite its reputation, Moby-Dick is chill as hell. 3. Anne Carson is one of the most famous living poets and she's also batty as all get out. 4. If you don't love A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels you are dead inside. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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Best New Books For Fall - Reading Guide
"I feel like everyone was talking about this book over the holidays, and I was slow to pick it up. But honestly, I hate myself for it, because I would have loved to read this on my days off in December, in one uninterrupted stretch. The characters are so compelling and charming, I never want to leave them — especially not for stupid things like approaching my stop on the subway or going to work. And, even though the titular Bernadette is broken and a little off, I love her as if she were real. Maria Semple Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
RA for All: library blogs
Right after ALA Annual every year there is always a big buzz in the library community. Yes, a huge number of librarians return to their work energized, sharing ideas, and making plans for future programs and services. But, there is also the business side to the annual meeting and that too can make some waves that ripple out to all librarians whether they went to the conference or not. ALA is a huge organization that is supposed to represent every single librarian. Because it cannot possibly do that as one entity, there are also many smaller associations, roundtables and committees to handle specific service populations and library types. This makes sense. Well, I was not at ALA Annual, but something happened in some of the business meetings which I have strong feelings about. The new policy is indeed a gag order. No booklists. "Have someone else do it" sounds great in theory, but it's not always a possibility for many, for any number of reasons.
Ten Obvious Truths About Fiction
The following essay was previewed in the class that Stephen Graham Jones taught for LitReactor, Your Life Story Is Five Pages Long. 1. The reader should never have to work to figure out the basics of your story. Who’s whose wife or husband, what the time period is if that matters, why these people have broken into this house, and on and on, just the basic, ground-level facts about your story. 2. Meaning you don’t have to lay every last detail of every last thing out. The best writers are the ones who can cover the most distance with the fewest words. 3. It can be as simple as if the story opens with what feels like a dramatic frame—two people sitting by a fireplace, talking over brandy—then we already expect the story to circle back to that fireplace. 4. You open with a hook, of course—the title—then you hook with the first line, then, usually at the end of the first paragraph, you set that hook. 5. They’re not reading so you can render for them their already quotidian lives. 6. 7. 8. 9.
7 Better-Than-Beach-Reads About Famous Writers
Though a great many literary novels have novelists as protagonists — e.g. Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, or Chabon’s Grady Tripp, and that’s just for starters — much fewer explicitly take their inspiration from real-life writers. Or at least, they didn’t until recently, partly because of a certain stigma that has always attached to biography and biographers, the idea that they are people who sort through other people’s garbage in search of a crucial piece of mail. This is gossip, a lot of novelists complain, not literature. The public has generally disagreed on this point. Whether or not you think that’s just literary snobbery, of late even certain “serious” novelists have taken up the task of describing the lives of real writers. Abba Abba, by Anthony Burgess, tells the story of the last months of John Keats’ life, which he spent dying of consumption in Rome.
