A collectible box set of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is on sale for cheap at Amazon. As part of the retailer's Prime Big Deal Days early book sale, the leather-cloth-bound editions of all five novels in the fantasy series is discounted to only $36.12 (was $85). The 58% discount is the biggest price cut in two years. You need to be a Prime member to take advantage of this deal, otherwise the set will cost you $45.
It's something Loren and I spoke about for ages. We've always wanted to do one. And, then we really wanted to do one for the movie. And unfortunately, we just never got around to it. We're too busy making the show. So, this was just a great opportunity to do everything we've done on the show from the very start, and also include all the stuff we did on the movie, which is awesome,
New Audible Premium Plus subscribers can get their first three months for 99 cents per month. The Premium Plus tier normally costs $14.95, so needless to say, this is an excellent offer for audiobook lovers. Each month, Premium Plus members get one Audible credit that can be used to purchase any audiobook in the catalog, including new releases and preorders. Once you purchase an audiobook with a credit, it's yours to keep forever, just as if you paid with cash.
The Witcher fans can now read Geralt of Rivia's origin story in Crossroads of Ravens, the latest novel in Andrzej Sapkowski's best-selling fantasy series. Originally published in Poland last November, the English translation released in the US this week (September 30). While Crossroads of Ravens is the ninth book in The Witcher series, you don't need to be a longtime reader to understand what's going on. The prequel takes place before the other Witcher novels and original short story collections, so it's a suitable starting point for fans of the video game and TV adaptations, too.
THE PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS a Black man in rags and fetters being led through the street by a white man robed in white, trailed by a flock of spectators. The year was 1968, the setting an arts festival in Amalfi called Arte povera più azioni povere (Poor Art Plus Poor Actions); the scene was part of a play, L'uomo ammaestrato (The Trained Man), created by the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and his theater collective, Lo Zoo.
Coming to San Francisco and the East Bay October 9th through 25th, the Bay Area's long-running, beloved literary festival begins with a can't-miss opening night party and ends with the famous (some might say infamous) Mission District Lit Crawl, with more than 50 overlapping events over four hours. Here are some of the events that caught our eye this year at Litquake: (Not So) Guilty Pleasures: Litquake's Opening Night Reading is so good for you; you should never be embarrassed by what you're reading.
The Best American Poetry would be an offensive maneuver in that battle, a 'publishing experiment' committed to expanding poetry's audience, honoring aesthetic excellence, and resisting the ideological mandate of politics.
Daphne du Maurier wrote 17 novels, a few plays, and numerous short stories, but she's known chiefly for the narrative of the unnamed second Mrs. de Winter, a woman so overshadowed by her husband's late first wife that her own story is titled after her predecessor. True, some are aware that two of du Maurier's short stories, "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now," were adapted as great films by Alfred Hitchcock and Nicolas Roeg, respectively.
Organizers are reportedly working to reschedule the appearance dates and if they do, all tickets will remain good for the rescheduled date and no further action is needed for fans still planning on attending. Ticket purchasers will receive an email as soon as possible with the updated status of the events and can check their Ticketmaster Account at any time for the most updated status, according to the news release.
If Harris did feel sophomore jitters, then Amity, his 2025 follow-up, certainly doesn't show them. This is a smart, sensitive and very assured novel, albeit one that doesn't stray radically from the winning formula of its predecessor. Once again, Harris takes the Reconstruction-era deep south as his setting, and African American characters, recently and tenuously liberated from slavery are the driving force of his narrative.
Mohabir's poems plumb and reimagine the history of human interaction with these aquatic mammals, classified by science as cetaceans. Mohabir's poetry is as existential as it is timely, political, and emotional. Each poem invites readers to contemplate the wondrous-what it's like to be alive, for cetaceans and for Homo sapiens. Within the space of a stanza, he roves through questions about scientific classification, immigrant identity, carnal desire, and climate change.
After the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm, none of the previous Star Wars books would be considered canon, and instead would be relegated to the status of "Legends." Like Palpatine dissolving the senate offscreen, the Expanded Universe or "EU" of Star Wars was suddenly obliterated. But, then again, George Lucas never fully considered the EU to be true canon. Rather, he let the writers of those pre-2014 books and comics take all sorts of liberties.
Babies know how to do just the bare minimum: breathe, eat, cry. And, hopefully, sleep. For everything else, however, they need support. Little by little, they learn how to dress, wash, stack building blocks and think for themselves. Their independence also grows around books. First, they listen to them. Then, they read them on their own. They even choose the books they want, selecting them from the shelves right at ground level.
What is it all for, these early mornings and evenings in the park with her notebook? The bruises and the pain? She wonders about it many times, but is quiet, self-conscious. She does not spend too much time trying to answer the question. And whatever answers she comes by are less interesting, anyway, than the quality of the light at dawn, and the crash of bodies, and what she's recording in the notebook.
Her classic story The Birds opens with this: On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter. Short, chilly and to the point. It could almost be a weather report. It works so well at the outset of the gripping tale that follows, in which every species of bird attacks humankind, because it's flat, declarative and realistic.
I don't think we'll ever reach freedom. I think that it's a thing we sometimes get closer to, and sometimes we move further away from. Some people believe that freedom is an individual matter. And they may have a lived context that allows them to believe that they are free. But something always happens that makes it clear that we are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it.
For much of my life, whenever I've spotted a neglected novel in my periphery, I've looked away. I'm not an "extreme empath," but I can't help feel guilty - like the book's sitting there wondering when the hell I'm going to get my act together. Despite my editorial profession, I'm actually a really slow reader, capable of only finishing 12 books a year.
It's 1765, and there's a terrible plague in Zacatecas. Along with her wealthy merchant parents and her fiancé, Carlos, Alba takes shelter in Carlos' parents' silver mine. There she begins experiencing strange hallucinations, and she has the sense that something new and dangerous is lurking inside of her. Meanwhile, Carlos' cousin Elías is grappling with his own troubled past, and now he's forced into close quarters with Alba, whom he can't help but feel drawn to.
Come hang out with Broke-Ass Stuart as we celebrate ! This book is 21 years in the making! It's gonna be an epic night with The Worst of Broke-Ass Stuart: 20 Years of Love, Death, and Dive Bars burlesque, drag, a circus performer, live music, a DJ, and a book reading + Q&A! The tickets are sliding scale so, pay more if you can afford it, and pay less if you can't
The press, then known as Holt, Rinehart and Winston, had taken a chance on the book, which had been rejected by numerous other houses. The initial print run was somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 units-modest expectations that looked justified when, in the first year, sales barely cleared 2,000. This despite getting positive reviews in the New York Times and The New Yorker and being assigned to freshman classes at the City College of New York.
Dr Victoria Whitworth, who will publish evidence in a forthcoming book, said: The Picts were great artists, producing highly sophisticated Christian sculpture, but it has generally been accepted that not a single Pictish manuscript survives. If the Book of Kells was made in Pictland, this rewrites our understanding of early medieval Scotland. Her research has led her to conclude that a monastery in Portmahomack, Easter Ross, north-east of Inverness, is the most likely place for it to have been made.
Mediaite has learned that Barnett, or Bob as he was known to friends and colleagues, had been dealing with an illness for some time but was still working from his office as recently as last week. He died in a DC area hospital Friday morning, as reported by Alec Dent for The Washington Post. A towering figure in the political media landscape, Barnett was renowned for his unparalleled expertise in negotiating multimillion-dollar book deals for former U.S. presidents, political figures, and media personalities.
Protagonist Sam has extricated herself from the clutches of the rest of her MFA cohort, a group of women who transform rabbits into desirable men, setting the stage for this not-quite-a-sequel sequel. Told in part from the point of view of Sam's nemeses, the Bunnies, We Love You, Bunny also includes the point of view of Aerius, the first bunny they transformed into a man, who is hell bent on escaping the Bunnies' clutches.
Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including "petrichor," "teraflop," "dumbphone" and "ghost kitchen." The 12th edition of "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana BookScan.
I have just finished reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new book and, like most of the internet, I have thoughts. Before I dive in though, let me tell you where I stand on Gilbert because after over two decades in the public eye, three novels, four memoirs, two film adaptations and millions upon millions of dollars, Gilbert is literary Marmite.
One hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf wondered why, "considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings," it had not "taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature." In the century since, Woolf's provocation has been met many times over-in works as varied as Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and John Green's YA best seller The Fault in Our Stars.
Many years ago, a sober-minded friend warned me off going to Venice for the first time with my then partner. He muttered ominous things about the Venice wobble and the Venice curse. I went anyway and I have to say he had a point. It was autumn and there was something deeply uncanny about the city: fog-bound canals, labyrinthine alleyways, a general sense of decay. If my minibreak had belonged to a literary genre, it wouldn't have been romance so much as cosmic horror.
