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Why Do So Many Celebs Write Children’s Books?
The Cut· 3 days agoWhy do so many celebrities write children’s books? It can’t be that they think to themselves, Gee, I’d like to write a book, and kids ...
Matt Lucas blocks writer who complained about rash of celebrity authors. Then admits being...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoI understand the frustrations other writers must...ve read and loved. Maybe a new one each month....
Book review: A gifted storyteller shares her early Yukon River life
Anchorage Daily News· 10 hours ago“Tiny” Devlin, born in 1945 in Nenana, Alaska, was the eighth of 10 children in a family that lived...
The Gaza War has become a war on Jewish books and authors
NY Post via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThe critic reviewed it in just two words: “Zionist racist.” For historians like Rafael Medoff,...
‘And Then? And Then? What Else?’ Review: The Lens of Lemony Snicket
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoCertainly, he has had occasion to do so. While hosting the 2014 National Book Awards, Mr. Handler...
Caleb Carr, author of dark histories, dies at 68 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 2 hours agoMr. Carr was 39 when he published “The Alienist,” an atmospheric detective story about a child...
Book Review | A grandfather’s 1,500-page family history undergirds Claire Messud’s latest novel |...
Texarkana Gazette· 7 days agoSecrets and shame -- every family has its share. When it came time to write her most...
Tallahassee writer Melanie Rawls bends fairy tale genre to address grief | Book review
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoBarbara Hamby, poet and professor at Florida State University, comments, ”The paintings in this book...
David Walliams: ‘Children have a billion things they would rather be looking at than a book’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoI was once a reluctant reader. It wasn’t that I hated books, it was that I loved watching...
In the working-class desert odyssey 'Accordion Eulogies,' Noé Álvarez searches for his grandfather
Los Angeles Times· 13 hours agoAs a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose...