- Brie Larson roped in to play aspiring scientist for next Apple Series Lessons in Chemistry [details inside] Brie Larson will soon be a part of the drama series Lesson In Chemistry as a cast and as the executive producer. The series will release on Apple. A report on Variety stated that Susannah Grant, who had written the screenplay for the Academy Award-winning …
- Review: Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given 24 January 2021 Privilege, energy, growth, insecurities, behaviour, and the real meaning of beauty. Women Don't Owe You Pretty ‘Women Don’t Owe You Pretty’ is the best-selling debut novel from activist and illustrator Florence Given and even from the …
- Minnesota author goes back to school for her new novel Potter’s first published novel, “The Project,” was inspired by a class assignment she had as a sophomore in which she volunteered for the “adopt-a-grandparent” program. There she met Amy, a resident who taught her something she could never learn in …
- Concordia College alumnus goes back to school for her new novel Potter’s first published novel, “The Project,” was inspired by a class assignment she had as a sophomore in which she volunteered for the “adopt-a-grandparent” program at Eventide. There she met Amy, a resident who taught her something she could never …
- Jaipur Literature Festival 2021 to be held virtually The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) returns this year, donning a virtual avatar, spread over 10 days for its 14th edition. The programme with a stellar line-up offers a kaleidoscopic view into the themes of technology and AI, politics and history, …
- All the lives we never lived: Tabish Khair reviews Jenny Bhatt’s ‘Each of Us Killers’ There are good reasons to celebrate a successful new collection of short stories, perhaps more so in countries like ours, where the short fiction form remains vigorous. Until a few decades ago, in languages like Urdu, Hindi and Bangla, it was the short …
- Tea talk to feature English author The Friends of the Delaware County District Library is bringing a very special visitor to us through Zoom all the way from the United Kingdom. Author Annie Lyons, from Kent, England, will present an afternoon tea talk on Thursday, Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. We’ll …
- Clint Smith's Nonfiction Debut Reckons with History The massacre at a Black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 was the beginning of Clint Smith thinking about the legacy of the Confederacy, but when four monuments associated with the Confederacy were removed in his hometown of New Orleans in 2017, he …
- Nikesh Shukla: 'If I’m writing for my daughters, I want them to know who I am' In July last year, Nikesh Shukla tweeted a photograph of 11 books, captioned: “This is a decade’s worth of work.” At the top was his debut novel Coconut Unlimited, and at the bottom his latest book, Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home. It was …
- Page refresh: how the internet is transforming the novel Towards the end of 2020, a year spent supine on my sofa consuming endless internet like a force-fed goose, I managed to finish a beautifully written debut novel: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, which comes out next month. And yet despite the entrancing …
