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George Lopez writing 'fantastical' middle-grade book series
Newsday | 2022-03-17, 01:25
Actor-comedian George Lopez is launching a new series — of books. Lopez has a four-book deal with Viking Children's Books for "Chupacarter," a
Book sale to benefit the Cottonwood Community Library
The Cottonwood Community Library empties out the overflow of duplicated and donated books once each quarter and makes those
The Bookworm Sez: ‘Bridge the Gap’ by Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary
So you're experiencing personality clashes at work. And, come to think of it, the same is going on at home. "Bridge the Gap" can help with both. ...
Ukraine President Zelenskyy to be profiled in forthcoming book from Regnery
Regnery Publishing is slated to release the first book profiling Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in April. ...
Lorain: Ninth annual Northeast Ohio Christian Writers Conference is April 8-9
The ninth annual Northeast Ohio Christian Writers Conference will take place this year, according to a news release. The Writers Conference will be an in-person and
Lineup announced for 2022 LA Times Festival of Books: Janelle Monáe, Amanda Gorman and more
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner | 2022-03-16, 22:57
LOS ANGELES — Singer Janelle Monáe, poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Jonathan Franzen and actor Billy Porter are among the authors set to appear at the Los Angeles Times' Festival of Books this year. On Wednesday, the L.A. Times unveiled its ...
Everything We Know About Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells a new story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill his old master who has gone missing. Read more... ...
Winston-Salem native writes 'Red Lip Theology' book about a Black millennial woman of faith’s life journey
Winston-Salem Journal | 2022-03-16, 22:18
Fran Daniel On the day of singer and actress Whitney Houston’s funeral in February 2012, Candice Marie Benbow watched the service at her grandmother’s kitchen table in Winston-Salem. Benbow sat with her grandmother, Helen Jackson Benbow, and her mother, the
A Rare Book Inscribed by Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley Heads to Auction
One of the very few books inscribed by the 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley will headline Bonhams’ sale of fine books and manuscripts in London on March 23, with an estimated value between £60,000 and £80,000 (US$79,000 and US$105,000). The
Britney Spears’ Instagram account disappears again
In a clandestine move on Wednesday, the pop star once again up and deleted her Instagram account with no warning for going silent on social media. ...
Books-George Lopez
Decatur Daily | 2022-03-16, 20:39
This image released by Viking Books for Young Readers shows "Chupacarter," by George Lopez.
U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th presidential inauguration in ...
Dispatch Argus | 2022-03-16, 20:24
U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman
Greenfield native thinks outside the box with new play, children’s book
Greenfield native Winter Miller’s latest
In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the ...
Marie Yovanovitch recounts her career in public service and the experience of testifying during President Trump’s first impeachment. ...
Verses in solidarity with those under fire | Brief letters
A poem for Ukraine | Artists turned war heroes | Swearing at snails | On the road in Herefordshire | Zaghari-Ratcliffe freed Thank you to Simon Armitage for his moving poem, and to Harriet Sherwood for providing the wider context ( Poet laureate Simon Armitage
Author charged in crackdown on writers critical of Uganda government
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan prosecutors on Wednesday charged an author with communications offences and remanded him in custody, the latest target of a crackdown on writers critical of long-ruling President Yoweri Museveni and his
Reviewed in short: New books from Cathy O’Neil, Tove Ditlevsen, Okechukwu Nzelu and Anthony Barnett
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O’Neil Allen Lane, 272pp, £20 How much of modern life is shaped by shame? More than you’d think, hypothesises the American mathematician Cathy O’Neil. She lays out the ways in which shame
Mia Bay and Mae Ngai Win the Bancroft Prize
The scholars Mia Bay and Mae Ngai have won the award, considered one of the most prestigious in the field of American history. ...
Amazon’s empire stretches from Alexa to Zappos, and it trails only Walmart in annual sales
Sarasota Herald-Tribune | 2022-03-16, 17:29
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series of stories on the impacts of Amazon’s rapid growth in Florida, covering effects on real estate, small businesses, the job market, politics and more. Many people know Amazon for the company’s
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for the Week of March 20
This week’s selections range from a story of romance and heartbreak to a Shakespearean tragedy to the modern worries of socialized health
Omaha author Lynn Painter turns love of rom-coms into book career
Fremont Tribune | 2022-03-16, 16:42
Marjie Ducey Omaha World-Herald Lynn Painter’s latest book starts right after the heroine accidentally burns down her apartment building. It was just one of the many incidents to befall Olivia Marshall in the delightful and funny romance “Mr. Wrong Number.”
JAY DUNN: Baseball writers in difficult position when it comes to voting for awards
As an American the opportunity to vote is a precious right. To a sportswriter sometimes it’s more than that. I’ve always voted in November but I’ve also voted in many other months as well. It became standard. A typical year would start with
Books-Q&A-The-First-Kennedys
The Pantagraph | 2022-03-16, 16:23
This cover image released by Mariner Books shows "The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of An American Dynasty" by Neal Thompson. ...
How a new wave of literature is reframing spinsterhood
In 1869, the essayist William Rathbone Greg published a 40-page treatise on the worrying trend of the “surplus” – aka unmarried – woman. Under the title “Why Are Women Redundant?” Rathbone regretted these tragic figures who, rather than “sweetening and
Exit Polls in Seoul
It is tempting to compare Yoon Suk-yeol, the career
Novelist Reyna Grande was never going to write about war. Until she did.
Reyna Grande didn’t know about the Saint Patrick’s Battalion until someone at a book reading suggested that she write about the group of European, primarily Irish, soldiers who fought for the Mexican Army in the Mexican-American War. “I hear that a lot from
Zorro in Arkham: Reflecting on a Legendary Batman Saga With Writer Grant Morrison, Part 1
If there's ever a Mount Rushmore of Batman storytellers, Grant Morrison's face surely deserves to be carved into that rock. Morrison is the writer of some of the most acclaimed and influential Batman comics ever published, from 1989's Arkham Asylum graphic
Sue Divin on Carnegie shortlist; Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize shortlist revealed
This Saturday’s reviews in The Irish Times are Brendan O’Leary on The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol; Niamh Donnelly on Lenny by Laura McVeigh; Martina Evans on the best new poetry; Seán Duke on Tomorrow’s People: The Future of
Truth Is the First Casualty of War. These Reporters Tried to Save It.
Deborah Cohen’s “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial” tells the story of four foreign correspondents who sounded the alarm from Europe before World War II. ...
Great Books - Machiavelli's The Prince (1996)
A 1996 Discovery Channel Sociopolitical Documentary narrated by
