A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Day 3 of 25 Days of Booklr: best mystery/thriller
I read Genuine Fraud as an ARC and I really expected it to be more popular on Booklr when it came out. It was definitely one of my favorites of this year.
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In Memory of Paul Fussell (1924-2012)
Paul Fussell won the National Book Award in 1976 in the Arts and Letters category for his landmark study of WWI, The Great War and Modern Memory. In his acceptance speech, Fussell said, “I would like to think that your award to this book of mine might be taken as an action inviting criticism to return to its time-honored tasks―tasks, after all, which Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot did not disdain to perform. Not transforming literary texts into mathematical formulas, but reading the humanity back into them. Recovering the actual pulse of life that beats everywhere in literature and that constantly solicits us to listen for it.”
Photo by Elaine Miller
The good folks at this year’s 5-under-35 book awards at powerHouse had very nice goodie bags, including a handsome Kindle cover. Thanks, folks!
I decided to improve upon mine.
Dustin FTW
Dustin I love you.
Mad clever.
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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