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Fifty Years Ago, He Was America’s Most Famous Writer. Why Haven’t You Ever Heard of Him?
On April 29, 1969, Carnegie Hall was sold out. The artist who filled the fabled performance hall wasn’t a symphony orchestra, or a Broadway belter, or a jazz star. It wasn’t a rock band or a folk singer or any hero of the counterculture taking the stage just a few months before Woodstock. On that night, more than 3,000 fans filled the Main Hall on 57th Street to see a placid blond man wearing a sweatshirt and sneakers.
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Stephen Colbert to Adapt One of George R.R. Martin’s Favorite Books Into TV Series
Roger Zelazny's long-gestating 'The Chronicles of Amber' adaptation might finally get made thanks to the CBS late-night host and fantasy superfan getting on board.
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Global book reading statistics for 2022 and 2023 (complete survey data)
What are the most popular books in the world? We asked 945 book readers in 56 countries what genre of books they read in 2022 and what they plan to read in 2023. Here are the world book reading statistics from the survey results.
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Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
Along with a wealth of silent films.
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Where to start with: Charles Dickens
The great Victorian chronicler of inequality and poverty was also a tremendous – and prolific – storyteller. Here are some of the best ways in to his colossal legacy
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6 best business books to gift this holiday season: gift guide
Holiday gift guide with the best business books to gift leaders and entrepreneurs curated by Virtual Gurus staff.
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The Man Who Lived Forever
He began like many before him and many after. Though he was born before a great many things, such as printed books, Calculus, the fall of Rome, and many others, no one immediately knew he was different. He had a mother and father and brothers and sisters. He was born somewhere in France, and worked as a stone mason in a small village that has long since been forgotten.
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A plot twist for video game novels: As TV shows ascend, books fade
Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.
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Never Completely Dutch: Flemish Writers in the Land of Freedom
Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.
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George R.R. Martin Is Too Busy Writing ‘Winds Of Winter’ To Play ‘Elden Ring’
Elden Ring, the open-world, spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, saw the involvement of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s backstory. Like Dark Souls, the story of Elden Ring isn’t exactly told to the player - it is implied, hinted at through evocative item descriptions, the vague ramblings of NPC characters, and experienced through the world itself.
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Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.
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Michigan library could close after town votes to defund it over 5 LGBTQ-themed books
Book banning in libraries and schools is gaining momentum across the country.
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Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature
When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children. Those questions took on more importance in light of the fact that Ye recently launched Donda Academy, a private educational venture named after his late mother, Donda West, who was herself an English professor.
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Bill Bryson breaks retirement to record Christmas audiobook
Despite assertions that he is ‘enjoying not doing anything’, author pens The Secret History of Christmas to reveal Santa’s true identity
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Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70
Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. In a statement, her publisher said: "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel.
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How Book Bans Turned a Texas Town Upside Down
In a political environment where book-banning efforts are being used to drive voter sentiment, librarians find themselves on the front lines.
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An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish
It may have been eclipsed as reference material, but it’s still a valuable indication of the general knowledge of past generations
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Garbage collectors open library with abandoned books
Garbage collectors in the Turkish capital have opened a public library made up entirely of books once destined for the landfills.
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How The Rings of Power Inevitably Removes Tolkien from His Creation
Every recommendation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s body of work sounds like it’s overselling it. For a lot of people, the walking and talking and eating is pretty boring, and the scenes where incognito warrior women doff their helms and stab vile sorcerer kings in their stupid faces are too few and far between. The Peter Jackson movies, which have come to be regarded as the definitive adaptation of the meaty central tale of Tolkien’s work...
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An Oklahoma teacher gave her students access to banned books—now she's under scrutiny
Summer Boismier resigned from Norman High School after a student's parent complained. Now, Oklahoma's Secretary of Education wants to revoke her teaching certificate.
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