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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind is set in Barcelona in 1945, a time when Spain was ruled by dictator Francisco Franco following the Spanish Civil War. At a time when Barcelona was recovering from the traumas of war, Daniel, a book dealer’s son mourning the loss

We’re less than 100 days out from a very consequential election, so before we get to the fun stuff, I want to call your attention to Project 2025 and the impact it would have on education, books, and reading. This is extreme, scary stuff, and it’s going to take all of us turning out to

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Neil Gaiman Accused of Sexual Assault by Two More Women In an exclusive four-part podcast series last month,

In mid-June, we wrote about how the Tattered Cover bookstore had filed for bankruptcy, and how it had accepted Barnes & Noble’s offer of $1.83 million. On July 30th, the federal bankruptcy court the sale was waiting on approved Barnes & Noble’s acquisition of the indie bookstore, which includes four stores in Denver. Tattered Cover

Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop (Halloween Bookshop Mystery #1) by Emmeline Duncan For fans of cozy mysteries, bookshops, and a Halloween-themed town setting. Elyan Hollow, Oregon is a small town that has a year-round Halloween theme—packing my bags right now! Resident Bailey Briggs’ has her life full: she’s running Lazy Bones Books, working on

The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day TODAY: In 1818, Emily Brontë is born.  Clara Bingham chronicles an oral history of the fight to include abortion rights in the Democratic Party’s platform at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. | Lit Hub History What does clown college have to do with writing? “Clown class was

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July 30, 2024, 11:26am Here it is: the 2024 Booker Prize longlist, heavy on previously nominated authors and featuring new voices, including the first Native American and Dutch authors. Edmund de Waal, the head of the judging committee, described the list of 13 novels as “a cohort of global voices, strong voices and new voices,”

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. A Bittersweet Farewell Francine Pascal, a legend of millennial YA literature, has died at the age of 92.

July 29, 2024, 1:10pm You loved them first at the library. There, they bewitched you with their preternatural gumption, and vulnerability. Their zany ideas and wicked wit. They were your first best friends. But then you lost touch. Life got in the way. And it didn’t help that you existed in fully separate dimension dimensions.

If you’ve pulled yourself away from Olympics coverage long enough to think about books, you get a gold medal for your Monday! Here are some highlights. I’ve been making way through the 2024 Read Harder Challenge throughout the year, providing recommendations for each task, but this week has brought me to a tricky one: task #16, Read

At the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden, Jim Thorpe easily won the decathlon in the first modern version of the event. The grueling, ten-part feat was not the only addition to the burgeoning modern games. Other events that debuted at the 1912 Olympics included architecture, sculpture, painting, music… and literature. Article continues after advertisement

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The best in comics are here! Last week at the San Diego Comic Convention, the Eisner Awards honoring excellence and achievement in comics were presented. The Eisners are among the most prestigious honors given to comic creators and

The athletes are ready, the teams are set, and the Seine is (maybe) swimmable: the Summer Olympics are upon us at last! As we enjoy this quadrennial banquet of sporting prowess, we’ll have ample opportunity to marvel at the collective magnificence of all those athletes who have pushed themselves far beyond the bounds of what

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I’m a journalist, and, like many people watching as a genocide is simultaneously livestreamed by the people of Gaza and whitewashed by much of US media, I’ve become both furious and bereft about contemporary journalism’s failures. But my disillusionment with my profession stretches further back. A few years ago, I started to think of calling

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Margaret Kingsbury grew up in a house so crammed with books she couldn’t open a closet door without a book stack tumbling, and she’s brought that same decorative energy to her adult life. Margaret has an MA in