Plus, the next big color for book covers.
Dear book clubbers, Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties is one of those books you just never stop thinking about. I haven't been able to get it out of my head since I first picked it up five years ago — which is why it's our pick for April 2022. Eerie and unsettling, this short story collection has the dark beauty of an Angela Carter fairy tale and an animating force that's all Machado's own. In stories that riff on urban legends, dystopian fiction, and Law & Order: SVU, Machado returns again and again to the fleshy, porous, unbounded bodies of her heroines — and to all the other parties who feel entitled to them. It's going to be a good month! Join us while we go through the stories, and then meet us at the end of the month to talk it all through with Carmen Maria Machado live on Zoom. You can RSVP right here. Plus, if you missed March's talk, you can catch up on our conversation with Benjamín Labatut here. And keep an eye out for our upcoming conversation with Unexplainable about When We Cease to Understand the World, the uncertainty principle, and whether or not reality exists, coming to your podcast provider on April 13. |
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Wednesday, April 13: Unexplainable episode on everything we've learned from When We Cease to Understand the World goes live Friday, April 15: Discussion post on Her Body and Other Parties published to Vox.com Thursday, April 28, 5 pm ET: Virtual live event with author Carmen Maria Machado. RSVP here. Reader questions are encouraged! |
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Here's some of the best writing about books and related subjects published across the internet in the past two weeks. - At NPR, Odette Yousef reports on how activists in the suburbs are responding to the rise in banned books at schools.
- Publishers Weekly interviewed Yulia Orlova, the CEO of one of Ukraine's largest publishers. "All of our efforts are being directed to help readers and the citizens of Ukraine to make sense of the events happening to them," Orlova says, "to help them avoid becoming a victim of Russia's hostile propaganda and the fake news, which has flooded our country."
- At the New York Times Book Review, Elisabeth Egan asks a question ever close to my heart: "When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young?"
- At LitHub, Terese Marie Mailhot talks about all the things her royalties can't bring her.
- Penguin UK's Vintage imprint is reissuing classics celebrated for their heroines (including Madame Bovary, Fenfang, and my beloved I Capture the Castle) and the photographic covers are all stunning. Creative Review has them all.
- Speaking of book covers! At Refinery 29, Sadhbh O'Sullivan announces that when it comes to the dust jacket, millennial pink is out and green is in.
- At the Atlantic, Alexandra Horowitz writes in praise of the index.
- Trends in media reading habits, part one: Lately a lot of people on book Twitter have been reading Iris Murdoch. At Slate, Isaac Butler thinks about why.
- Trends in media reading habits, part two: Lately a lot of people on book Twitter have been reading Cassandra at the Wedding. At the Strategist, Nora DeLigter tracks down patient zero.
- Vogue's profile of Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan is perfectly fine, but my big takeaway is that Egan spent a year dating Steve Jobs???
- Sometimes we talk here about the "point" of reading fiction, and whether or not it's useful to think of fiction as didactic or as something that makes us more empathetic. At Gawker, Morten Høi Jensen considers some reasons to read fiction.
Happy reading, Constance |
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