On the morning of February 10th, Netflix casually tweeted an announcement that caused an entire generation’s inner child to levitate out of bed and cry “Eulalia!” with one voice: the streaming platform had acquired the rights to the entirety of Brian Jacques’ beloved Redwall series. Plans were announced for a feature film and an “event series” to start, with no information yet on casting, timeline, or other details.
Jacques’ medieval fantasy adventure series, a proto-cottagecore masterpiece with a colorful cast of anthropomorphic wildlife, was written for the age range we now refer to as middle grade and spanned 22 books, from the 1986 publication of
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A UMass gradâs site is helping independent bookstores hold their own against Amazon
âI was waiting for someone smarter and with more resources than me to do something.it never happened.â
By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated February 4, 2021, 2:33 p.m.
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Andy Hunter, who founded Bookshop.org, is seen in his office in Brooklyn, N.Y. He created the website to help save independent bookstores from Amazon which has been taking even larger percentages of book sales.Jennifer S. Altman
Growing up in Winchester in the â70s and â80s, Andy Hunter had a complicated home life â he and his brothers were raised by a single mother who struggled with mental illness. Books
Brandon Taylor Writes to Understand How and Why People Connect
On February 17, Aspen Words will announce the shortlist for the fourth annual
political
moment, and the best piece of writing advice they’ve received.
Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Literary Hub. His book
Real Life deals with themes of gender and sexuality. Unfolding over tension-filled dinner parties, frustrating lab sessions, and furtive sexual encounters, the novel follows Wallace and his group of friends as they fall in and out of love, argue, manipulate, and try to understand one another.