Sign in
Sign in
Recover your password.
A password will be e-mailed to you.
Browsing Category
Fiction Book
Lost diary reveals veteran’s Nazi experience
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) - Almost 90 years after an American teenager visited Germany on a Boy Scout trip and documented his travels in a diary, his daughter wrote a book of historical fiction based on the scenes haunting that he…
Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni holds online lecture on latest novel
Photo courtesy of Mattson.
Residents of Iowa will have the chance to chat online this week with an author who is nationally acclaimed for his latest novel, which crosses multiple genres and topics, from racism to capitalism.
James Han…
How Creative UI Writers Celebrate National Novel Writing Month
The nonprofit NaNoWriMo has turned November into National Novel Writing Month, and writers of all years have risen to the challenge, including the majors in Creative UI Writing.
National Novel Writing Month - known to many as NaNoWriMo -…
native of Altoona awarded with the Big Book Award | News, Sports, Jobs
HARRISBURG - NYC Big Book Award recognized for novel "Summer 85" by Richard Fellinger in the General Fiction category as a distinguished…
Ōtaki beach offers author Eirlys Hunter a “glorious” place to write a novel
Author Eirlys Hunter. Photo / Sabrina Barbara GrabowSpending "glorious days" at Åtaki Beach writing The Uprising: The Mapmakers in Cruxcia during the first lockdown last year, author Eirlys Hunter took advantage of time at the…
If you want to be remembered, write a novel
By Mohammed Wajihuddin In the early 90s, I received The Great Indian Novel. It was Shashi Tharoor's first novel published in 1989, from the iconic Khuda Bakhsh Library in Patna. With a limited vocabulary but an unlimited desire to learn…
eight exciting titles released this month
November is going to be a month of biographies.From the memoirs of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Will Smith to books examining the life of American literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick, The talented Mr. Ripley author Patricia Highsmith and…
This visual novel is also a puzzle to get the characters out alive
It's a trope in visual novels that there are more than a few ways to fail, die, get screwed, or generally encounter what is colloquially referred to as a bad ending. A recent release, Bad End Theater plays with the idea that Bad Ends…
Fiction: “The Making of Incarnation” by Tom McCarthy
In his 2012 manifesto âTransmission and the Individual Remixâ, modestly captioned âHow Literature Works,â Tom McCarthy laid out his idea that writers have…
Amitava Kumar’s novel is about fake news, memory, and how truth gives way to fiction –…
The book "A Time Outside This Time" is a brilliant meditation on life in a post-truth era.In the novel, Satya, an Indian writer living in New York City, participates in a prestigious artist's retreat in Italy and finds that the pressures…
Democrats craft new plan to tax billionaires and corporate giants
New York Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was trying to align support, including from Mr Manchin, to strengthen a provision on federally paid family and medical leave that had been reduced to just four weeks instead of 12.Georgia…
Raven Leilani’s novel “Chandelier” being adapted for HBO
One of the hottest books of 2020 gets the HBO treatment.According to Deadline, actress Tessa Thompson's production company Viva Maude is teaming up with film studio Gaumont to adapt Raven Leilani's bestseller, Chandelier, for the TV…
David Lynch’s Dune bombed, but still shaped every sci-fi movie
Frank Herbert's epic science fiction novel Dune has been considered infilmable for decades. Mainly because it's a massive, complex book with a narrative that rarely unfolds the way you'd expect, and stuffed with remarkable imagery -…
“The limits of their accommodation” by Blake Sanz
Of course, as a retired English teacher, I could go on for pages on the characteristics that make good writing: nuanced and realistic characters, believable and suspenseful plot, imagery, natural dialogue, etc. However, two elements that…
Love and Virtue by Diana Reid Review – Sex, Shame and the Social Minefields of Campus Life |…
Sand on the campus of a prestigious Sydney university, Diana Reid's debut novel, Love and Virtue, is told through the dry, witty perspective of Michaela, a freshman who lives on a scholarship to Fairfax College. She befriends the girl in…
Russian freighter to swap one-day parking spaces again at space station
An unmanned Russian freighter will begin swapping parking spots at the International Space Station tonight (October 20) in a move that will take just over a day to reach its new berth.The Progress 78 spacecraft is scheduled to undock from…
Letting the IRS In Your Bank Account: Separating Fact from Fiction
By John KinsellaABA point of view
AAs the congressional debate over the Biden administration's Build Back Better program continues on Capitol Hill, public opposition to a proposal that would have a significant effect on…
Antananarivo Due’s classic horror novel re-releases just in time for a spooky season
Award-winning author, producer, teacher and expert in horror culture, Antananarivo Due is finally recognized as!-->!-->…
A posthumous novel by John le Carré
October 16, 2021Silverview. By Jean le Carré. Viking; 224 pages; $ 28 and £ 20WHEN JEAN LE CARRé Passing away last December, he left behind a prodigious body of work that spanned six decades and…
SCOOP: No second trailer, no newspaper ads – Rohit Shetty adopts new strategy for…
The countdown to the release of the biggest Bollywood release of 2021 - Sooryavanshi - has begun. It features Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif leading the way with Ajay Devgn and Ranveer Singh in key roles. With a formidable ensemble…
New advanced prostate cancer drug trial recruits first patient
The first patient was enrolled in the Phase 2 clinical trial of VERU-100, a treatment for advanced hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to Veru Inc., the drug's maker.VERU-100 is a new medicine and is a three month subcutaneous…
Coffs Harbor author Bruce Meder launches landmark novel E! News UK
Bruce Meder with 'Ironic Cross', his main writing achievement.
HOLDING in his hand the proof book of his first adult novel titled "Ironic Cross," Coffs Harbor author Bruce Meder says it is his!-->…
Providence Author Hunt finalist for the National Book Award
Saturday 09 October 2021
Enlarge +
Laird Hunt PHOTO: CC 3.0
Laird Hunt, a resident of Providence, is one of the five finalists of the National Book Prize for fiction.
Hunt's novel Zorrie is just one of his critically…
The Swarm: German television adapts a best-selling science fiction novel into English | Television…
It topped Germany's bestselling list for eight months, and much to local excitement Frank Schätzing's sci-fi page turner Der Schwarm is in the process of being turned into an eight-part drama series for German public service…
Professor WLP Jon Papernick’s new novel set for release in January 2022
A new novel by writing, literature and publishing professor Jon Papernick follows a married couple as they navigate their polyamorous relationship and Jewish customs, and is expected to be released early next year.
Papernick started to…
Author Brit Bennett takes inspiration from life in Southern California in his novel “The…
Brit Bennett's last novel, "The Vanishing Half," begins in 1968 in a small southern town called Mallard. Mallard is common in many ways: it's a sleepy community where locals chatter at restaurants and indulge in vacation picnics, where…
Finalists announced for this year’s National Book Awards
A dietary brief that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour and growing up as a black boy in the rural south. Poetry honoring migrants who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande.These are some of the…
Top 5 Fantasy Novels – Northern Star
Since I could read fantastic novels, they always caught my attention. I remember how I felt reading my first fantasy novel and how intrigued and captivated I was by the words and the stories they contain. Although I can say that there…
Newton author Adam Wilson publishes his third book – The Heights
Adam Wilson, an author of Newton, recently published his third book, Sensation machines. Completed before the pandemic and originally published in hardcover in July 2020, the paperback edition was released on September 7.
Sensation…
Getting by with a little help from friends
BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTEDBy Jayne AllenIn July, when Naomi Osaka pulled out of Roland Garros to focus on her sanity, it seemed like permission for other black women, who also want to prioritize themselves, to give themselves the same…
Karl Ove Knausgård’s Morning Star review – bloated and inconsequential | Fiction in…
For me, a passage from Karl Ove Knausgård's 2004 novel A Time for Everything has always seemed illustrative of his approach:
the fact that the incident was shrouded in obscurity brings out every detail of his story with…
Lon Orey publishes new historical novel APRICOT MARMALADE AND EDMONDSON’S TRANSMISSION
Author Lon Orey has announced the release of his new landmark novel, Apricot Marmalade and the Edmondson Transmittal. It is a satirical adventure through Thailand from 1968 that follows a team of American intelligence agents matching…
COLUMN: Celebrate Day Three of Forbidden Book Week with “The Bluest Eye” by Toni…
This is the third column in a weeklong series celebrating Forbidden Book Week, which celebrates the freedom to read. Each column will review a different frequently contested…
Why do some people develop severe COVID symptoms from the novel coronavirus?
The nasal microbiota contains clues about who will develop symptoms of COVID from the novel coronavirus.
The microbiota of the nose and upper throat probably contains biomarkers to assess the disease of an individual infected with…
Laura Jean McKay wins Arthur C Clarke Award | Arthur C Clarke Award
Twenty years before Margaret Atwood won the first Arthur C Clarke Prize for her seminal novel The Handmaid's Tale, she published a poem titled The animals of this country. Now Laura Jean McKay, who borrowed the title from Atwood's poem…
Anthony Doerr weaves a rich novel
In his new novel, "Cloud Cuckoo Land", Anthony doerr manages to create a plot that begins in the days of the ancient Greeks and continues for up to 125 years into the future.Along the way, he developed a rich list of characters: ancient…
In ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’, Anthony Doerr creates a patchwork of connections
Anthony Doerr's âAll the Light We Cannot Seeâ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. His new book, âCloud Cuckoo Land,â follows three storylines and five…
Pile of Books: 10 Readings to End September, Art News and Featured Articles
SINGAPORE - In this monthly column, The Sunday Times selects 10 books from around the world that have just hit shelves.
Top of the stack
1. Country Chronicles of the Happiest People on the Planet
By Wole SoyinkaFiction / Bloomsbury /…
Netflix is developing a fantastic book for the movies – The Hollywood Reporter
Beasts of prey, the first novel in a planned fantasy series, is being developed by Netflix as a feature film.
Written by Ayana Gray, the story follows two black teenagers as they form a dangerous alliance and embark on a…
South London sisters promote their critically acclaimed two-book novel “Undying”
Two sisters from South London have been working on their novel for many years, writes Davina Hyde. Recently shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the critically acclaimed two-book novel by Ambreen and Uzma Hameed Eternal has been called…
Groff’s new novel ‘Matrix’ inspired by Marie de France
By CHAD G. WELCH ⢠Special for www.AllOTSEGO.com
Award-winning author Lauren Groff's sixth novel, âMatrix,â was published this month with rave reviews, including four stars from USA…
Airdrie’s author combines fact and fiction to write WWII spy thriller
A novice novelist from Airdrie used her primary research skills to craft a story that combines fictional characters with the historical precision of WWII.
A novice novelist from Airdrie used her primary research skills to create a…
Perplexity by the magazine Richard Powers – environmental controversy | Science fiction books
RIchard Powers' sequel to 2018's Outstanding Arboreal Fantasia The Overstory - a novel as expansive, brilliant, and beautiful as you might hope to read - is much more focused, but just as committed to the environment.Also shortlisted for…
A new novel imagines the Marches as black women.
The principle of the series is deceptively simple: what if the protagonists of classic literary works like Treasure island, The Wuthering Heights, and Robin Hood weren't white? In April 2020, Feiwel and Friends, a young adult…
Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lincoln Michel's first novel, THE SCOUT CORPS (Orbite, 356 p., $ 27), mixes black, cyberpunk and sport into something both timeless and original. In the near and troubling future of New York City, where extreme climate change has made…
FSU confirms the theft of nearly 5,000 rare sci-fi and comic book items
The Florida State University Libraries has a real thriller on his hands.Between March 17, 2020 and February 10, someone stole nearly 5,000 items from the Robert M. Ervin Jr. Collection hosted by FSU Special Collections & Archives at…
Chronicles of a new exploratory fictional novel Life in a world without humanity
Author Beverly Nimke presents her captivating and futuristic new novel "In a Village of Dolls"DALLAS, September 20, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / - There are many books about humanity, but few offer solutions that have inspired the author and…
Foundation Featurette reveals the difficulties of adapting Asimov’s book
Apple TV + has released a new first look at the upcoming adaptation of Isaac Asimov's epic masterpiece, Foundation. The series follows a group of scientists who set out to rebuild and…
Book Review: Wiley Cash’s Fourth Novel “When Ghosts Come Home” Combines Rich…
"WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME" by Wiley Cash (William Morrow, 304 pages, $ 29).
Wiley Cash, author of "A Land More Kind Than Home", "This Dark Road to Mercy" and "The Last Ballad", returns with his latest offering, the warm and…
Like a good novel, The Yass Book Store gets off to a rough start
Joanna Hicks couldn't find an empty store on Yass Main Street to open her bookstore, so she moved further afield to her family's former B&B. Photo: Sally Hopman.
Joanna Hicks' dream of opening her own boutique in Yass has all the…
Southside writer launches novel based on his great-grandmother’s trip to the United States…
San Antonio - - Editor's Note: This story is Partnership With KSAT Live from the south side, New local and Latina property magazine He works to improve and expand community relationships by facilitating events, stories and…
OPINION: Sally Rooney’s New Novel Serves To Reinforce Her Place Among The Greats
âBeautiful World, Where Are You,â Sally Rooney's third novel, is a wonderful display of skillful description and skillful storytelling. It's safe to say that Rooney's hit,…
Louis Menand among the nominees for the National Book Award
NEW YORK (AP) - Louis Menand's Cold War cultural history âThe Free Worldâ and Hanif Abdurraqib's meditation on black art âA Little Devil in Americaâ are among the…
Anime & Light Novel Audiobooks Growing Fast
Many anime and light novel publishers are releasing audiobook versions of their most popular franchises, but what does this mean for the industry?…
Bendigo expatriate and author Margaret hickey releases crime novel Cutters End | Bendigo Advertiser
lifestyle, books, Author Margaret Hickey turned to detective fiction for her new novel Cutters End. Hickey, who grew up in Bendigo and now lives in Beechworth, is traditionally a short story writer, but decided to try his hand at a novel.…
Independent community: Placing the non-gendered novel
How well do you let gender expectations shape your writing? Is conforming to genre tropes a prerequisite for success?While writing my first novel, The tenant, that summer, I thought surprisingly little of my readers. It was my first…
WATCH NOW: Celebration Marks Release of Iredell Woman’s Debut Novel | Local News
Support local journalism…
David Grossman’s More Than I Love My Life Review – Staff are Political | fiction
DGrossman's eager follow-up to the International Booker-winning A horse walks into a bar is a Russian doll from a novel, a book of secrets shrouded in secrets. It is told by Gili, a filmmaker, a damaged young woman who has already tried…
Pandemic fiction: fall books contain stories about the virus
NEW YORK (AP) - By the end of 2020, the pandemic had lasted long enough for author Jodi Picoult to attempt something that seemed unthinkable to early novelists - turning it into fiction.
âAt the start of the…
Pat Barker’s Criticism of the Women of Troy – A Troy Story for the Fellowship | Pat…
Pto Barker's previous novel, The silence of the girls, repeated the Iliad from the perspective of one of his secondary characters, Briseis, a Trojan captive quarrels with the Greek invaders who are Homer's main center of interest.…
Author Sinnott talks about the novel ‘The Third Mrs. Galway ‘in Peterboro NY
Author Deirdre Sinnott will talk about her years of historical research for her debut novel "The Third Mrs. Galway" at 2pm on Sunday, August 29 at the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro.Oneida County Freedom Trail…
Briefly Rated Book Reviews | The New Yorker
The kiss bug, by Daisy Hernández (Tin House). âOther girls my age have been taught to fear rabid dogs and horrible men,â writes Hernández in this study on the tropical…
Research History by Eugene Lim. Coffee House, $ 16.95 commercial paper (210p) ISBN…
Eugene Lim. Coffee House, $ 16.95 commercial paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-56689-617-7
The montage is the…
The author of Sonoma is recognized for his youth fiction
Christy Hoss, formerly a teacher at Kenwood Elementary School, has followed one of the most basic writing rules to create an incredibly successful children's series: Write What You Know.
Set in Wildwood, the series follows an…
In literary fiction, is the politics of P-capital always in play?
RADIANT FUGITIVES By Nawaaz AhmedAnyone attempting to understand 21st century America through their literary fiction might believe that neither religion nor politics play a significant role in shaping the lives of its people. Politics…
Naomi Hirahara’s novel “Clark and Division” about Japanese lives
On the bookshelf
"Clark and Division"
By Naomi HiraharaSoho Crime: 312 pages, $ 28If you purchase related books from our site, The Times may earn a commission of Librairie.org, whose prices…
Escape Lockdown with Reading Tips from Richard Fidler, Heather Rose, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Tegan…
Readers know that the very act of reading can transport you far, far beyond the walls of your home.And with millions of Australians confined, it's more important than ever to find a book that takes you on an adventure.Come on, join our…
Dallas author welcomes signing of novel “The Girl in the Cardboard Box” | New
Itemizer-ObserverDALLAS - Jane Daly has always loved to read. Since the age of four, when she spent time…
The Hugo Hamilton Pages review – if a book could speak | fiction
TAustrian writer Joseph Roth, best known for his masterpiece Mars Radetzky, anticipates several of his themes in his third novel, Rebellion, first published in 1924. It tells the story of Andreas Pum, a WWI survivor who "lost a leg and…
Ikea finds new way to hide battery charger in a book
This Ikea battery charger is undercover
Ikea
Rechargeable batteries are much better for the environment than disposable batteries, but they don't do much for decorating your home. However, Swedish furniture…
Book Corner: Broaden Your View of the World with These Historical Fictional Tales | Columns
"Yellow Woman" by Sadeqa Johnson. This intense and well-documented pre-war novel by Johnson centers around Pheby Delores Brown, the biracial child (then known as the "Yellow Top") of a proud African mother and fathered by their white…
Author Thomas Nathan Tomlinson’s new book “Exceptional People” is a fascinating…
MARSHFIELD, Missouri (PRWEB)
July 19, 2021
Thomas Nathan…
“A Psalm for the Savages” By Becky Chambers: NPR
A psalm for the wild-built, by Becky Chambers…
The Recorder – Novel “Sugar Mountain” written in 2013 premonitory of the COVID-19…
âThe news comes in an indirect, silent way, a flicker of words at the bottom of the screen: The World Health Organization is concerned about the reports of deaths due to an outbreak of bird flu in Xingjian province.…
Legacy of a Matriarch haunts Damon Galgut’s new novel
July 17, 2021The promise. By Damon Galgut. Chatto & Windus; £ 16.99THE SHOOTS of a house and an inheritance is a constant preoccupation of fiction in English. Think, for example, of "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh…
Aragen Announces Partnership With Skyhawk Therapeutics To Develop New Small Molecule Therapies That…
HYDERABAD, India - (COMMERCIAL THREAD) - Aragen Life Sciences (formerly GVK BIO), a leading contract research and development organization (CRDO), headquartered in Hyderabad, India, announced that it has been selected by Skyhawk…
Leamington novelist’s last fictional book is based on the tragic oil disaster that took place…
Leamington novelist Amanda Smyth.Memories of the true story of a tragic historical event her mother told her as they spent long summers together in Trinidad inspired a novelist from Leamington in the creation of her latest work.Fortune, by…
Environmentalists develop new forensic tool to detect bleaching critically endangered cockatoo…
Ecologists at the Conservation Forensic Laboratory of the Ecology and Biodiversity Research Division of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) applied stable isotope techniques to determine whether birds in the Pets are captured in captivity or…
Summary of dystopian fiction: social media chaos, curious viruses and cryptocurrency capers
Pandemic novels continue to pour in even during such a crisis. Cli-fi no longer reads like fiction after the horrific…
Ten British Columbia Books To Add To Your Summer Reading Pile
Breadcrumb Links Local arts Entertainment Books Authors in British Columbia offer many options for fiction and non-fiction books. Author of the article: Dana gee Here are 10 titles from British…
HHLA Unveils New Design for Hyperloop Freight Network
Image courtesy of HyperloopTT / HHLA
Posted on…
Review: “The Wonder Test” is a beguiling mix of speculative and familiar
Michelle Richmond is the author of "The Wonder Test". Photo: Grove
Contemporary fiction set in or around Silicon Valley doesn't always go far enough with its absurdity and speculation. Best-selling author Michelle Richmond's eighth…
The best books to read in July
This month, immerse yourself in a novel that might make you too scared to fly again, devour the memories of the journalist who told one of the world's greatest stories, indulge in a mystery that will be essential in every beach bag this…
“Respecting the truth and weaving a story around it can be a challenge”: American-Indian…
From a skilled accountant to working in the investment bank, Shaheen Chishti rarely found the time to write. But in 2015-2016, he had managed to finish his first book The granddaughter project. âI am…
Apple TV’s ‘Foundation’ trailer changes the books in a major way
The next epic TV sci-fi is almost upon us.And the ambitious vision of Apple on that of Isaac Asimov Foundation The series, which premiered on September 24 of this year, appears to be at least a philosophically faithful adaptation of the…
How “Ice Planet Barbarians” Has Invaded Amazon’s Best Seller Lists
There are some things that cannot be properly explained in the lines of your average news website. "Ice Planet Barbarians" is one of those things. The romantic sci-fi series is about a gang of human women stranded on - you guessed it - an…
Fiction: “Lorna Mott Comes Home” review
âAre Americans still Americans when they are transplanted or are they becoming something else? Asked the heroine of Diane Johnson's "Le Divorce", the premiere of her beloved Parisian trilogy - with "The Marriage" and…
Diane Johnson wants more writers to write about friendship
Do you prefer books that touch you emotionally or intellectually?I'm not sure I can separate the two. Intellectual excitement is an emotion.What genres do you particularly like to read? And what do you avoid?Well, detective story; what…
Washington People: Rebecca Copeland | Source
Rebecca Copeland, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a nationally recognized scholar of modern Japanese literature, translator of contemporary Japanese novels,…
Coming home is anything but easy in this “Millennial Noir”
ALL THE WATER I HAVE SEEN WORKSBy Elias RodriquesThe longer you go, the slicker the return home becomes. Reconciling the person you have become with the one your old friends remember is as easy as telling the tide not to rise.This dilemma…
Author Daniel Genovese’s new book, “The Crimson Rose” is an exciting royal fantasy…
Daniel Genovese, a!--mvp-post-feat-img-->…
Isabel Waidner: “Different doesn’t have to be scary. It can be fun ‘| fiction
Isabel Waidner, 47, is the author of three novels, including We are made of diamonds, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. In their new novel, Karat sterling gold, a non-binary migrant…
Who is the real monster from Briohny Doyle’s second novel, Echolalia?
"What could make a mother do the unthinkable?" " Echolalia asks for the back cover. In Doyle's universe, almost everything qualifies: ecological collapse, the guilt of the colonial invasion, school bullies, distraught husbands. Yet the…
Amazon’s Best Books in 2021 So Far Include Fiction, Biography, Memoir & Thrillers |…
Amazon announced on June 9 its picks for the best books of 2021 so far, selecting the epic American saga of…