If you are among the 26 percent of people who did not read a book last year (according to PEW Research), you may be making a big mistake. This according to Inc. magazine, which references the PEW data in delivering a piece structured around why you should not not read, called “Why Reading Books Should Be Your Priority, According to Science.” We second that emotion. From Inc.: You’re not doing yourself any favors if you’re […]
Ross Dinerstein (1922, The Divide) and the guys from Campfire Entertainment, who once upon a time delivered The Blair Witch Project, have secured the rights to The Most Dangerous Animal of All (Harper), the 2014 New York Times bestseller by Gary L. Stewart, who claims his father was the Zodiac Killer. From Deadline Hollywood: The title of the book comes from the 1932 movie The Most Dangerous Game which law enforcement for years have said […]
This is the year we started paying attention to the shenanigans our tech was getting up to. With dire warnings about the future of AI from the likes of Tesla founder Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking, not to mention the fact that we suddenly noticed that something as seemingly innocent as an online personality test might have repercussions on the entire free world, it just seems suddenly sensible to raise our heads, look […]
Who is reading books in America? According to a recent PEW survey, not everyone. “About a quarter of American adults (24%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year, whether in print, electronic or audio form.” Apparently, according to PEW, if you’re rich, educated or white — and especially if you’re all of the above — you are more likely to have read a book over the last […]
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. Terrall last wrote for January Magazine about Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement by Carl Cederström and André Spicer.) David Cay Johnston, a very sharp and multitalented journalist, has been writing about Donald Trump for […]
On June 14th, Christie’s will offer one of the most important illustrated books of all time at auction. The Birds of America by John James Audubon has an auction estimate of $8,000,000-12,000,000. From the Christie’s web site: The two lanky purple herons [at right] appear to be deep in conversation. The adult bird, with its rich brown ruff, gestures with a raised blue leg as if to emphasise a point; the younger heron — its […]
A Child Went Forth follows thirteen year old Charlie Griffin’s evolvement from boyhood to manhood in the summer of 1855 as he carries money from Brooklyn to Missouri to give it to the abolitionist leaders there. All the while he is being hunted by a ferocious crew of adversaries. It is an entirely new look at the era, at slavery, racism, political and social corruptions and the cast of people in the novel are an […]
The Ice Dragon, a 1980 children’s book written by Games of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, is headed for the big screen. From Deadline Hollywood: Martin wrote the book in 1980 prior to Game of Thrones. The book is not set in the realm of Martin’s Seven Kingdoms, but rather in a world of medieval fantasy where warring kingdoms harness the power of fire breathing dragons. It’s the story of a young girl named Adara, […]
Influential author Philip Roth (Portnoy’s Complaint, The Great American Novel) died Tuesday night at a Manhattan hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 85. Though his work and his persona were often controversial, Roth numbered among America’s best known novelists, and his passing has brought widespread remembrance and mourning. “Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered […]
When books are banned or protested, it gives us an opportunity to look more closely at the book being called out and, in certain cases, to zoom in for closer examination which is often followed by more sales. This is one of those times. The book in question is Justice Makes a Difference by Dr. Artika Tyner and Jacklyn Milton and illustrated by Jeremy Norton and Janos Orban. From PR material from the book: Through […]
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