34 posts tagged ‘books’
Reading Rhythms
Swiss Miss,
Reading Rhythms is not a book club. It’s a reading party. Read with friends to curated music. I love this idea!
Hot Goss: DeuxMoi Is Becoming a TV Show
Vulture,
Diablo Cody and Ryan O’Connell are writing this. A likely place for them to be.
Bianca Stone Reads Franz Wright
The New Yorker,
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Learning to Read,” by Franz Wright, and her own poem “What’s Poetry Like?”
5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month
Barbra Streisand remembers everything in her new memoir, while Megan Fox shares her poetry.
A.S. Byatt, Scholar and Possession Novelist, Dead at 87
“Antonia’s books are the most wonderful jewel-boxes of stories and ideas,” her publisher stated.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation looks not awful
Boing Boing,
Adaptations of books aren't always terrible – No Country for Old Men would like to have a word – but there are certainly more bad ones than great ones. Take, for instance, 2010's movie adaptation of the first Percy Jackson and the Olympians book, which I was unfortunate enough to see in theaters as a kid with way too much interest in Greek mythology. — Read the rest
A Hedge-Fund Founder’s Obsessive Storytelling
A new book about Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, paints an unflattering picture—but it’s hard to imagine a record more damning than the one Dalio has created himself.
What’s So Controversial About the National Book Awards?
Despite sponsor backlash over nominees’ plan to call for a cease-fire, the evening showed that literature is inextricable from the cause of humanity.