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Do your dishes, especially if you have a habit of mindlessly leaving your dirty dishes on top of your roommates. Clean up; be considerate of the fact that some of your roommates are prone to dust bunnies. Open the window when it’s nice, sure, but don’t forget to close it when it’s really hot or especially if it rains. Some of your roommates are very sensitive to temperature and anything but a cool breeze may cause them to wither and age at 800x their normal rate....

My second read of 2019, sure enough, Smith succeeds in her goal of connecting the reader, me, with “fifty different real or imagined people with fifty different outlooks on the human condition.” A red carpet of poets, suddenly I need to add armfuls of new collections to my bookcases. The earliest published poem in the anthology features an excerpt from Robert Hayden’s “[American Journal].” Mr. Hayden, named the first Black American U....

Now, without giving major spoilers for those who have not watched yet, I am going to explain who, or better yet what she is without revealing too much of the show itself. In WandaVision, we understand that Wanda herself is in a conflicting bind that separates herself from reality. However, through it all, Wanda has found solace in her neighbor Agnes, also known as Agatha Harkness. In the comics, Agatha is not always portrayed as a villain....

This time, it started with a tweet from Melanie of @melon_reads, who invited authors to describe their upcoming books in the form of Reddit posts. The most popular choice is as an Am I the Asshole? subreddit post, but other authors went with general dating advice subreddit formats. I’d seen this idea go around once before on Twitter and loved reading them all, but that time it was writers’ WIPs (works in progress) that I could not yet read or even preorder, which was very rude....

Just look at this scene, one of the first few times Honora and Sexton meet. “In April, the typewriter salesman returned to the bank. He came through the door so fast that Honora thought at first he might be a robber. The wings of his coat spread wide around his trousers as he made his way to her station. She resisted the urge to touch her hair, which she hadn’t washed in days....

The shortlist will be announced April 9th and the winner will be announced May 21st. Next year, the prize will be known as the International Booker Prize, as the sponsorship from the Man Group comes to an end and the prize’s new sponsor Crankstart begins funding. — The Booker Prizes (@TheBookerPrizes) March 13, 2019 Bettany Hughes, chair of the judging panel, commented on the list, stating that, ‘This was a year when writers plundered the archive, personal and political....

House Bill 2161, the “parental rights” bill, allows parents to sue educators and school staff if they believe those individuals interfere with the “fundamental rights of parents to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health” of their children. Parents would have full access to every record the school keeps on students’ wellbeing, including those otherwise kept confidential. The bill goes further to allow parents to sue anyone but law enforcement for encouraging or coercing those under 18 from withholding information from their parents....

I have written about how historical settings have become increasingly common in acclaimed works of fiction, and the place of war stories therein. Within the corpus of historical fiction about World War II, there are books that try to unpack the trauma of civilian experiences in Asia during this period, providing an enlightening and liberating glimpse into stories of individual lives that added up to the momentous change that some of these regions witnessed after the war....

I think it’s time to really stretch and take on some personalities from non-western comics, don’t you? Good, glad you agree. One of the first books that caught my eye upon initiation of my manga backlist dive was CLAMP’s RG Veda, a reimagining of the Sanskrit epic Rig Veda. CLAMP’s three omnibus manga is not a retelling; while the group pulled story elements and the Japanese versions of characters from the original work, this is not Hindu scripture....

Each season Simon & Schuster partners with book festivals nationwide to present insightful panel discussions between celebrated authors. The Fall 2022 AuthorFest Event will feature New York Times bestselling authors John Irving and Jason Reynolds. Both legendary authors are famous for crafting thought-provoking stories about the expression of self-identity through explorations of race, class, and sexuality. TBR Tarot Deck ($20): Don’t let the uncertainty of what to read next overwhelm you!...

For that last question, I have no answer. Though that hasn’t stopped others from trying to make sense of all of these mismatched sizes. “It is, admittedly, all too easy to take the existence of physical books for granted,” writes Keith Houston in The Book. “The sheer weight of them that surrounds us at all times, in bookcases, libraries, and bookshops, leads to a kind of bibliographic snow blindness.” Recent news, though, has us thinking more deeply about book formats....

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