Independent Bookstore Day Adapts to Covid By Ed Nawotka and Claire Kirch | Apr 20, 2021
Independent Bookstore Day, administered by the American Booksellers Association, takes place this coming Saturday, April 24. More than 740 stores are participating, which is up from last year’s event, which was moved from April to August, and attracted 650 stores. As is customary, a catalog of exclusive items will be for sale, including signed editions of
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn (Picador) and
Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson (HarperCollins); a stencil with the George Orwell quote, “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act;” and a box of IBD branded Blackwing Pencils, among other items.
Independent Bookstore Day Announces a Conversation With #1 Bestselling Author Glennon Doyle and Wellness Author Alexandra Elle
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âBecoming Duchess Goldblattâ by Anonymous (HMH Books, $15.99).
Quite possibly the greatest book ever to be born from a pseudonymous Twitter account, this nonfiction gem is written by a reclusive real-life writer who created a wise, enchanting online persona for herself, inspired by the Frans Hals painting âPortrait of an Elderly Lady.â (Sample recent tweet: âIâve left a cardboard box lined with old towels by the back door. When my sadness comes crawling home in the wee hours, it can sleep it off outside.â) Duchess Goldblatt wants the world to be a better place; by the time youâve finished this moving, funny memoir, it will be.
Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards By Calvin Reid | Apr 08, 2021
The PEN Literary Awards, presented this year in a virtual ceremony, awarded poet Ross Gay the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for
Be Holding: A Poem (University of Pittsburgh), a book-length lyrical tribute to the great basketball player Julius Erving and much more. Michael X. Wang’s
Further News of Defeat: Stories won the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Short Story Prize, and Barbara Ehrenreich won the $15,000 PEN/Essay Award for her career-spanning collection
In addition, Saidiya Hartman was awarded the $10,000 PEN/Galbraith Nonfiction Award for
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, a groundbreaking history of radical queer black women (Norton). Jonathan Slaght won the $10,000 PEN/Wilson Science Writing Award for
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