Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Wink, Washburn, and More
This week, we're looking at new books from Callan Wink, Kawai Strong Washburn, Alexandra Chang, Fernanda Melchior, and César Aira,
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The Millions Top 10
Cleaning Up After W.H. Auden
Growing more annoyed with your roommate during the quarantine? Comfort yourself with the knowledge that, at the very least, you're not living with W.H. Auden.
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How to Survive the End of the World with Jenny Offill
I realize this is what the book is about: everyday living during the end of the world. The futility, the impossibility, the absurdity of trying to keep people alive, trying to keep them safe.
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An Intergalactic Reading List
Dreaming of escaping to outer space during this time? Christopher Wanjek lists some of the best books that imagine a future on other planets.
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Panel Mania: ‘The Oracle Code’
In The Oracle Code, Marieke Nijkamp, an autistic YA author and advocate for the people with disabilities, reimagines the Batman story of Barbara Gordon.
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Our Work and Why We Do It
For writers, real success is the days and weeks and months and years of satisfying, engaging work it takes to produce the book, no matter what happens to it afterward.
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Revisiting ‘The Decameron’ in Quarantine
Elyse Martin examines how Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron—a collection of "medieval Italian sex stories"—shows that storytelling is integral to our survival.
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How to Live the Writing Life
Talk to any agent or editor and they’ll all say the same thing. If given a choice between a mediocre manuscript from a writer with an MFA and a remarkable one from a writer who never even went to college, they will always choose the best writing.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Jemisin, Ehrenreich, Giddings, Kemp, Mandel, and More
This week, we're looking at new books from N.K. Jemisin, Barbara Ehrenreich, and our own Emily St. John Mandel.
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The Many Layers of Ling Ma’s ‘Severance’
Ling Ma's 2018 novel, Severance, is popping up on everyone's pandemic TBR pile, due to parallels between the fictitious "Shen Fever" and the current-day coronavirus.
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