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“#New app gives curated book-club book recommendations” Any book club member will tell you that choosing the right title is half the battle: Pick something too long or dense, and many of the members won’t read it; something too light, and there’s not much to discuss. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by long lists of…
“#How I traveled to 90 countries and all 50 states by age 70” Karen Gershowitz has traveled to 90 countries and all 50 US states. From the age of 17, when she left home to travel in Europe alone, the New Yorker has embraced travel as an enduring lifelong love and a way of gaining…
“#How I survived a sinking cruise ship” In March 2019, Chaney Kwak was a freelance travel writer with a cushy writing assignment: He was traveling aboard the Viking Sky cruise ship on a 12-day jaunt off the Norwegian coast, visiting small towns and cities before making a scheduled arrival in Tilbury, a port near London….
“#’Chicka Chicka Boom Boom’ illustrator Lois Ehlert dead at 86” Beloved children’s book illustrator Lois Ehlert died of natural causes Tuesday in Milwaukee, her publisher Simon & Schuster said. She was 86. The Wisconsin native was best known for her brightly colored cut-and-paste illustrations in the 1989 book “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” The classic book…
“#Professor urges Steinbeck estate to publish secret werewolf novel” Before John Steinbeck became a world-famous author and won the Nobel Prize for literature, he was just another struggling novelist experimenting with genres and piling up rejection slips. Steinbeck ripped up two of his early novels but a third — a full-length werewolf mystery called “Murder…
“#Rhodes scholar on how autism makes his brain work differently” One day in college, Jory Fleming was walking across campus with his service dog, Daisy, when a stranger approached and declared that he was being cruel to the animal. The dog, the man insisted, was unhappy and shouldn’t be a slave to anyone. Onlookers were…
“#Poet uses 17 syllables to describe 9 million people of NYC” Peter Goldmark has held many highly impressive jobs, including head of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, program director at the Environmental Defense Fund, and publisher of the International Herald Tribune. Now he can add “author and…
“#The publishing industry has turned into modern-day book burners” Serious accusations have been made against Blake Bailey, the author of an acclaimed new biography of Philip Roth. Bailey has not been convicted of anything, or even criminally charged, yet the book’s publisher, W.W. Norton, announced it was withdrawing the book from print. That doesn’t make…
“#Gina Tron’s ‘Employment’ turns the 9-5 grind into poetry” Gina Tron has held plenty of jobs. She has worked at a Walmart, a PetSmart, and a small-town newspaper. She has been a waitress; she has worked at a CBS affiliate, Lifetime, and a media job at a TV station that was owned by the Catholic…
“#Author reveals how his brother killed his mother in new memoir” Most memoirs are a recounting of the author’s own life and experiences. “Everything is Fine” by Vince Granata (Atria Books), out April 27, is a memoir of an entire family — and a tragedy that forever changed its members. Granata was an only child…