I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.
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#lit #Marilynne RobinsonI think that my subject is the capacity for dignity and beauty of perception in people society does not necessarily value.
The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards were announced and several National Book Award Finalist books made the list. The works of John Lahr, Roz Chast, Marilynne Robinson, and Rabih Alameddine were all nominated and Claudia Rankine became the first National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist nominated in two categories: criticism and poetry.
In addition, Phil Klay, who won the National Book Award for his short-story collection Redeployment, will be awarded the John Leonard prize for the best debut book.
National Book Award Finalists Marilynne Robinson and Ben Lerner, and 2013 5 Under 35 Honoree Merritt Tierce are featured in the Huffington Post’s list of the “Best Books for Fall 2014”
More of our conversation with Marilynne Robinson about writing Lila, a Finalist for the 2014 National Book Award, here.
Robinson resists the notion of love as an easy antidote to a lifetime of suffering or solitude, suggesting that intimacy can’t intrude on loneliness without some measure of pain.
National Book Award finalist Marilynne Robinson spoke with Moyers & Company about LILA and keeping faith in democracy.
FIRST PAGE, FIRST LINE of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel Lila, LONGLISTED for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. #NBAwards #literature #books #booktastic #bookstagram #reading #mustread #readdeep @fsgbooks
Book quote GIFs are the future of literature (via Slate):
A new app, working in tandem with Facebook Messenger, allows you to send animated quotes from great works of literature to your friends in basic IMs. The name: GIF Quotes. As Digiday explains, GIF Quotes “is a smidgen more sophisticated than your garden-variety reaction GIF. Rather than focus on moving imagery, the app’s GIFs highlight popular lines from songs, books, movies, and famous people.” You can rummage through the database by “feeling” (“amazing,” “murderous,” “grateful,” “kinky,” even “random,” which will deposit you in arbitrary emotional climes currently dominated by Harry Potter references) or select from 24 “sentiments,” including “please,” “thank you,” “good job,” and “I hate you.”
I kind of love that this is the image on their front page:
– Petra
ONE of us at NBF is downloading this rightnow….
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
