The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them. Read more
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Winners of Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Announced
Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. Read more
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Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books
Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for authors. Read more
First Major Saul Bellow Documentary Comes to PBS
American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow illuminates how Bellow transformed modern literature and navigated through the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others. Watch trailer
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The Murky Path To Becoming a New York Times Best Seller
No one outside The New York Times knows exactly how its best sellers are calculated—and the list of theories is longer than the actual list of best sellers. Read more
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The Gamification of Everything Is No Fun
Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics. Read more
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Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell
Remainders of the Day is the third of Bythell’s sardonic bookseller diaries … The setup of each book is the same. Bythell charts a year in the life of his second-hand bookstore (the largest in Scotland), documenting in short, wry entries his dealings with customers, book-buying expeditions to stuffy country houses and small-town Scottish life. Read more
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There’s a New Adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Netflix
Connie, born into wealth & privilege, finds herself married to a man she no longer loves. When she meets Oliver, the estate’s gamekeeper, their secret trysts lead her to a sexual awakening. She faces a decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what society expects of her. Watch trailer
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The Honesty of Pornography
Often vilified as a weapon of male supremacy, pornography in fact has much to tell us about ourselves and our culture. Read more
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Tiya Miles wins Cundill History Prize for ‘All That She Carried’
Harvard professor Tiya Miles’s book about the history of an enslaved mother and her daughter has won this year’s US$75,000 Cundill History Prize. Read more
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