“Written by Kate Schatz and illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl, Rad American Women A-Z highlights the stories of 26 women whose lives have shaped the society we live in. It features a wide range of subjects, from punk rock icon Patti Smith to civil rights activist Ella Baker, and includes women whose important contributions are never recognized publicly, writing ‘X is for the women whose names we don’t know.’”
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National Book Award Winner Patti Smith reveals the cover of her soon to be published new memoir (Source: Entertainment Weekly)
National Book Award Winner Patti Smith sings a requiem for the last episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
Devra Davis, a world-renowned epidemiologist, examined the impact of catastrophic levels of industrial pollution on her hometown of Donora, Pennsylvania and towns and cities across America. Her conclusion that pollution-related toxins contributed to countless deaths and illnesses became the basis of When Smoke Ran Like Water, a 2002 Finalist for the National Book Award.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
A few weeks after 9/11, Megan K. Stack, a twenty-five-year-old national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen and prodding warlords for information. From there, she traveled to war-ravaged Iraq and Lebanon and other countries scarred by violence, including Israel, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.
Her account of what she saw in these combat zones and beyond became the basis of Every Man in this Village is a a Liar: An Education in War, a National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist book in 2010.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
Gloria Emerson was one of a few female journalists who covered the Vietnam War. Her 1978 National Book Award Winning book Winners & Losers was her passionate account of the effects of America’s prolonged and ultimately failed engagement on Americans, veterans, and the Vietnamese people.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
A scholar and master stylist, Eleanor Clark won the National Book Award in 1964 for The Oysters of Locmariaquer, her rich investigation of the cultivation of Belon oysters in France’s northwest region of Brittany, and the history and culture of its inhabitants. Clark was also a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1952 for Rome and a Villa, which remains a beloved classic portrait of the Eternal City.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
A real-life murder mystery set amidst a city teeming with suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy. Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a remarkable depiction of the people of Annawadi, a slum in the shadow of Mumbai airport. The book earned a National Book Award in 2012 and playwright David Hare’s adaption of The Beautiful Forevers is now on stage at London’s National Theatre.
For Women’s History Month, we’re bringing you #Women Write the World, daily posts of National Book Award honored women authors whose nonfiction writing on matters here and abroad set new standards for American expository literature.
Scholar, documentary maker, and chair of the University of Southern California’s anthropology department, Barbara Myerhoff’s work throughout the 1970s and 1980s shaped the study of rituals and life histories. In 1975, Myerhoff became a National Book Award Finalist for her landmark study Peyote Hunt: The Sacred Journey of the Huichol Indians– the first non-Huichol to participate in the annual rite.
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
