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You can read books. And you can listen to books. And you can read about books. But what about listening to people talking about books? Well, that’s a thing, too. Here the Washington Post puts together a list of what they think…
American readers: today is the day. Make your voice heard. And, in case you need encouragement to get out there, here are some stars of film and television to help get you out of your chair. The video is a collaboration between…
The story of four old friends reuniting to contemplate their 60th birthdays turns into a marvelous, magical mystery tour with plenty of surprises and laughs along the way. An enchanting exploration of aging, art, philosophy, feminism, and motherhood, written with style and…
Nothing in this about books (is there?), but it seemed big news to me that, a dozen years after the series ended, Deadwood will come back to the screen as a feature film. Though there’s been talk about a film version pretty…
Two very different film versions of the children’s novel by Carlo Collodi first published in 1883 are about to go into production. And neither of them will look even a bit like the animated 1940 Disney version that generations of children have…
Can there be a magic bullet? The quest for a magic bullet is to find a drug which can cure disease and do no harm. Microbiologist Adam Knight finds that the new antibiotic, Floracillin, he has discovered can cause cancer. He falls…
Food Tank has rounded up 19 books about food and agriculture that explore food policy, nutrition science, healthy eating, food justice, and the challenges of farming. Readers will be able to immerse themselves in new roles as activists, brewers, chefs, farmers, politicians,…
As November and National Novel Writing Month zoom towards us, author Sam Wiebe makes a case for economy with a push on the art of the short story and #ShortStoryReadingMonth, a initiative he’s made on Twitter. In a Facebook post a few…
The 50th Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Anna Burns for the novel Milkman (Faber & Faber). Burns, 56, who was born in Belfast and lives in East Sussex, drew on the experience of Northern Ireland during the Troubles to write…
Growing up in a house filled with books might have a ”Powerful and Lasting effect” on the mind, according to a recent study. From Smithsonian Magazine: The study, published recently in Social Science Research, assessed data from 160,000 adults from 31 countries,…