What to Read When You Want to Be Swept up by a Good Story
Jon Sealy shares a reading list to celebrate THE MERCIFUL.
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Posts Tagged: everything i never told you
Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Celeste Ng
To help kick off the celebrations, we have an exclusive Q&A with Celeste Ng, 2018 National Bookstore Day Ambassador!
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What to Read When the President Cuts Funding for Everything Good
A list of books written by past NEA grant recipients, as well as books that inspire protest and remind us that we can make a different reality than the one we’re in today.
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Amazon’s Book of the Year
Celeste Ng’s novel, Everything I Never Told You, was recently named by Amazon as the book of the year. Amazon’s editorial team reviewed 480 fiction and non-fiction books before coming up with a top 10. Ng sat down with Hermione Hoby for the Guardian to talk about about writing, race, and Amazon: “It’s hard to feel […]
...moreAre You My Mother?
At The Millions, Anna Solomon asks what it means that “literature is filled with disappearing mothers”: Why so much motherly abandonment? It makes for good conflict, of course. It can help define characters and set plots in motion. Most importantly, it’s an act that even in 2014 remains, in many ways, the ultimate taboo. Solomon centers much of […]
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