Pretty good deal on Amazon today: All the e-book versions of the “Best American” books are $1.99.
Best American Books On Sale
NASA’s Science Fiction
Science fiction is about to get a lot more scientific. Tor and NASA will be collaborating on some book projects.
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“You should not have to care”
Recommended Reading: Jami Attenberg on lists and literary culture. (h/t Kyle Chayka)
Children’s Books from the Margins of Life with Maurice Sendak
Michele Kirichanskaya delves into the ways Maurice Sendak's experiences as a queer, Jewish writer influenced his innovative children's books.
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Philosophy’s Monster
Frankenstein was originally a philosophical novel, Michael Saler reveals in his review of The Annotated Frankenstein. Mary Shelley used her monster to comment on the terrors of the French Revolution, patriarchy, social justice, and slavery, he writes.
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Icon and Author
Louis Menand, Thessaly La Force, Amelia Lester, and David Haglund have come together to discuss the influence of literary powerhouse and cultural icon Joan Didion in The New Yorker’s Out Loud Podcast. Our own Michael Bourne calls Didion America’s Truth Teller in his review of her biography.
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