Making well-read sense of the world, one book at a time.
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A time-traveling reading list featuring Octavia Butler, @thea_lim, @agreer & many more.
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"Great books don’t need our defense. On the contrary, they defend us. But it would have been a pleasure to make a case for Melville and MOBY-DICK or for Jean Toomer’s CANE." Ron Slate on classics he would have liked to review, plus more on @bookmarksreads. bookmarks.reviews/ron-slate-…
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Your Purchase Gives Back! From #GivingTuesday (November 27) until December 4, 2018, for every book purchased on penguinrandomhouse.com/, Penguin Random House will donate $1 to global literacy organization Worldreader. Learn more: bit.ly/2S8UPgC @worldreaders
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Have you tried any of these classic #cocktails from literature? @SignatureReads takes a sip of drinks such as Bond's martini in Casino Royale, and the mint julep in The Great Gatsby. signature-reads.com/2018/11/…
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✨ Celebrate #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth and decolonize your bookshelf by reading the work of @NatalieGDiaz, @heyteebs, @joyharjo, and more! Check out the full list over at @SignatureReads: signature-reads.com/2017/11/… 📚
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Remember @NaNoWriMo writers: there will be time to disassemble, destroy, and reconstruct your story later. For now, WRITE! And from our #ThisistheAuthor podcast: "I started and killed seven different novels."-- @gayleforman, author of I HAVE LOST MY WAY #AmWriting #NaNoWriMo
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"I’ve never forgotten that, for me, 'magic' has to be the operative word—getting the prose to go somewhere and do something you couldn’t have foreseen at the outset."
George Saunders, perfect as always.
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@RachelKleinfeld says, "As society decivilizes, actual #violence becomes more expected and more prevalent," in a new interview with @SignatureReads.
Read her take on violence, law enforcement, and what we can do about it here: signature-reads.com/2018/11/…
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Because it's in the world. (It's not just women who are controlled in the book.. it's everyone except those at the top. Gilead is a theocratic totalitariansim, not simply a Men-have-power Women-do-not world. Lower status men are told when and who marry, eg.)
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“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose.”― George Orwell bit.ly/2DqvPOJ @SignatureReads
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We love a good unconventional memoir. Here are 5 of our favorites: offtheshelf.com/2018/11/the-…
#memoir #bestbooks #corkdork #soloadventure @penguinusa @SimonBooks @VintageAnchor @riverheadbooks
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🔷 ALBERT CAMUS
Born on this day, in 1913
“Desire is sustained through fragments, concentrated moments spent together mythologized during those apart.”
On the love letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares. @parisreview
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thanks to @SignatureReads
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We are honored that our latest @Tin_House anthology was featured in this @SignatureReads review by @BerryFLW — and couldn't agree more that we need more literature that centers intersectionality & young women! signature-reads.com/2018/11/…
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Starting your #NaNoWriMo journey? Get going with writing wisdom from bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Charlaine Harris, and more: bit.ly/PRHSBNaNo
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Did you know Madame Tussaud had a royal doppelganger? Author @EdwardCarey70 shares fun and surprising facts about the heroine of his new novel on @SignatureReads! signature-reads.com/2018/10/…
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Happy #Halloween ! In case you missed it, receive spooky short stories by Aaron Mahnke, Jennifer McMahon, Edgar Cantero, and Craig Russell before the clock strikes midnight… bit.ly/2Ox7aOA #SpookyShortStories
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Awaken Your Inner Witch with These 12 Witchy Reads for All Hallows Eve feat. @ShadowtimeNYC, @Nnedi, @_alex_mar, @Phantasmaphile, @s_k_hanselmann, and more! 🔮💕📚 Head to @SignatureReads for the full list: signature-reads.com/2017/10/… #Halloween
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" If #writing is important to you, create an environment that encourages you to #write."
Find out about some other helpful habits to develop here:
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via @SignatureReads
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From our time in Chicago, to the Inauguration stage, to our friendship during the White House years, @ProfessorEA has always been there for Barack and me.
So excited for this tour! #IAmBecoming
BIG news: I am thrilled to be sitting down with the great woman who continues to inspire us all—@MichelleObama—to talk about her extraordinary new memoir “Becoming” on her book tour in DC on 11/25 and NYC on 12/1.
