Roy Miller's Blog, page 164
June 10, 2017
Elephants Escape Time and Space in These Stories’ Porous Borders
This content was originally published by MERON HADERO on 9 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Photo Kanishk Tharoor Credit Amanda Calderon SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS Stories By Kanishk Tharoor 239 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25. In the opening story of this remarkably crafted and imaginative debut collection of stories that span space…
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Finding the Right Balance Between Expo and Con
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Ever since the book industry has had an annual gathering, attendees have found something to complain about—whether it was the American Booksellers Association Convention, BookExpo America, or the just-concluded BookExpo-BookCon combination. The two major issues brought up most often about…
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‘The Essex Serpent,’ By Sarah Perry : NPR
This content was originally published by Annalisa Quinn on 10 June 2017 | 11:00 am. Source link The best kind of nature writing celebrates not the placidly, distantly picturesque — mountaintops and sunsets — but the near, dank, and teeming. The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry’s gloriously alive historical novel, squirms with bugs, moss and marsh.…
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Insects Falling on Books, and Other Tales of Unsettling Trespasses
This content was originally published by LEAH HAGER COHEN on 9 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link Photo Tessa Hadley Credit Mark Vessey BAD DREAMS AND OTHER STORIES By Tessa Hadley 224 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $26.99. I once knew a family that had reading suppers. From time to time, its members were invited to…
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Audiobook News Update, June 2017
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Naxos hooks Derek Jacobi, David Timson, and Sean Barrett to head the new full-cast recording of ‘The Compleat Angler, Kevin Hart comes to Audible, and more. Source link
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Four Sandy Summer Romances : NPR
This content was originally published by Maya Rodale on 10 June 2017 | 2:00 pm. Source link Summer is a time for unabashedly delighting in beach reads. Yes, they’re engaging, yes, they go down easy — but regular readers of escapist fiction know they’ll find powerful, universal themes and truths tucked within these tasty pages.…
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Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous
This content was originally published by KARAN MAHAJAN on 9 June 2017 | 9:00 am. Source link So it is a relief to encounter the new book and find Roy the artist fully and brilliantly intact: prospering with stories and writing in gorgeous, supple prose. The organs of a slaughtered buffalo in one scene “slip…
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Chana Bloch, Poet and Hebrew Translator, Is Dead at 77
This content was originally published by WILLIAM GRIMES on 10 June 2017 | 12:46 am. Source link “Mrs. Dumpty,” a sequence of 44 lyrics published in 1998, charted the decline of her marriage to Ariel Bloch, a scholar of Semitic linguistics, after he sank into a crippling depression. She called it “a memoir-in-verse about ‘a…
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June 9, 2017
Penguin Mixes Art, Books for a Cause
This content was originally published by on 9 June 2017 | 4:00 am. Source link Penguin Books and Classics step into the civic participation ring with a new event series benefitting nonprofits and hosted at a local art gallery. Source link
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A Counterterrorism Expert Explains How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead
This content was originally published by CHARLIE SAVAGE on 9 June 2017 | 2:41 pm. Source link Photo A news conference in Baghdad after the killing of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, 2006. Credit Ali Haider/European Pressphoto Agency ANATOMY OF TERROR From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of…
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