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Books
Reader, I downloaded him: boom times for the literary long listen
The Guardian - Nosheen Iqbal
Four hours of Beatrix Potter, 10 hours of Marcel Proust, or 72 hours of Sherlock Holmes. How about every single word of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and George Eliot’s Silas
Amazon Marketplace
Amazon sellers are organizing against the retailer amid probes
Business Insider - Rachel Premack
According to a recent analyst note from Morgan Stanley, Amazon's third-party business is worth $307 billion of the company's $1.1 trillion enterprise value, comprising 58% of all merchandise sales. Meanwhile,
Satire
What’s new in sci-fi: beautiful oddities from the Arthur C Clarke prize
Financial Times - James Lovegrove
The 33rd Arthur C Clarke Award for best science-fiction novel was announced last month, with the prize going to the very deserving Rosewater by Tade Thompson. Another of the five titles on this year’s
George R.R. Martin
Amazon's The Wheel of Time: Everything You Need to Know - IGN
IGN - Mike Rougeau
It’s official: Wheel of Time is finally being adapted. Almost 30 years after the debut of the series’ first book, The Eye of the World, Robert …
The Top Sci-Fi Books Ever Written
prowritingaid.com
When you hear Sci-Fi, do your normally think of J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, or George …
Books
William Boyd on the four great, forgotten authors of the Second World War
The Telegraph - By William Boyd
Looking at the literature of the two world wars – from a British perspective – there is an interesting division. The First World War produced poetry of the highest rank – Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Graves,
Books
The Unsettling of Europe by Peter Gatrell review – the messy truth about migration
The Guardian - Jonathan Portes
Churchill wanted to fight the 1955 election with the slogan 'Keep England White' When I first worked on migration issues in the Cabinet Office at the turn of the millennium, a letter crossed my desk from
| Calumet Editions
calumeteditions.com - Gary LindbergJuly 31, 2018
LOVY: Thank you for taking the time to speak with me about your book and your life. They both sound fascinating. In your memoir, you straddle many …
Amazon
25 Office Products You Can Get On Amazon That People Actually Swear By
BuzzFeed - Katy Herman
These game-changing products might be even better at their job than you are at yours. We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales or other compensation
Amazon
Amazon Prime Members Can Get 4 Free PC Games Right Now
GameSpot - Jenae Sitzes
July was a busy month for Twitch Prime, which is included with any Amazon Prime subscription, as Prime Day 2019 ran for a full 48 hours this year and spawned a huge number of counter-sales in the weeks
The best true wireless earbuds of 2019
CNET - David Carnoy
True wireless headphones are all the rage. Here are the top wire-free models you can buy right now.
IKEA
Ikea goes all in on smart home tech
The Verge - Thomas Ricker
Ikea is formalizing what has recently become all too obvious: the company is making a major bet on smart home tech as a source of new revenue. To do this, Ikea announced that it will invest heavily in
Lifestyle
Amazon Is Now Selling A 3-Bedroom Prefab Tiny Home That’s Practically All Windows
Women's Health - By Elizabeth Bacharach
Quick! How many square feet is too many square feet to be considered a "tiny home?" That, my dear readers, is the question...that I've been asking myself since discovering this luxurious 774-square-foot
Essays
The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers
flavorwire.com - ArtBooksFilmMusicTV
It’s an interesting relationship that book lovers have with the Internet: most would rather read a physical book than something on an iPad or Kindle, …
Culture
Bassey Ikpi On 'I'm Telling The Truth, But I'm Lying'
NPR
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and spoken-word artist Bassey Ikpi on her essays about growing up and dealing with mental illness. "I'm Telling The Truth, But I'm Lying." As phrases that can stop
Culture
Darkness And Beauty Go Hand In Hand In 'Black Light'
NPR - Michael Schaub
Sheila, the narrator of Kimberly King Parson's story "Guts," can't run away from bodies: not her own, not others'. Ever since she started dating Tim, a medical student, "all the sick, broken people in
Lampedusa
The Passing of Time: On Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s and Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard”
lareviewofbooks.org - By Melissa Holbrook Pierson
THE PASSING OF AN AGE is an event so vast it can’t be viewed at once, or even at all from where you sit. It exists retrospectively. It may be found …
Books
Too busy? Distracted by your phone? How to love reading again
The Guardian
If reading has given way in your life to social media and other distractions, it can be hard to return to books – but these tips could help In 2019, books are not just a last resort when the wifi is down.
Amazon
Amazon: Facial recognition program for cops detects emotion
ABC News - The Associated Press
Amazon has announced its facial recognition program used by one Washington state police agency can now detect emotion, generating concerns from …
Kelly Ripa
Kelly Ripa's 'must-read' summer book has the best reviews on Amazon
AOL - Laura Galvan
While Kelly Ripa is on vacation from her hosting duties at "Live with Kelly and Ryan," the 48-year-old TV personality is enjoying time on the beach getting lost in a good book. Ripa took to Instagram share
Murals
'Katsuya Terada Real Size' Book Review: A Glorious Collection Of Amazing Illustrations
Forbes - Ollie Barder
I cover gaming in Japan as well as the pop-culture here. 'Real Size' is one of Katsuya Terada's latest artbooks with artwork from his live drawing events. Terada’s depiction of Link in various Zelda games
Culture
'Archive Of Our Own' Fanfiction Website Is Up For A Hugo Award
NPR - Neda Ulaby
The fanfiction website Archive of Our Own — where people post stories about their favorite movies, books and TV shows — is up for a Hugo Award, one of the highest awards in sci-fi and fantasy. And now
Culture
Dialogue Drives The Story In 'The Silence Between Us'
NPR - Alethea Kontis
I was excited to get my hands on a copy of The Silence Between Us, as I had yet to review a book for this column featuring a deaf protagonist. I was doubly delighted to know that the story had been written
Culture
Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Series Is Joyous Dad-Joke Fantasy
NPR - Jason Heller
Ever since George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series stole our hearts, minds, and television screens, fantasy literature has gained a reputation for being so grim and dark that there's a whole
Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders love bashing — and shopping at — Amazon
publicintegrity.org - Gordon Witkin
Trashing Amazon is sport for President Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes …
Swansea City
Amazon Documentary 'Take Us Home' Shows How Close Leeds Came to Signing Man Utd's Daniel James
Sports Illustrated - By 90Min
Daniel James made quite the impression on his competitive debut for Manchester United last weekend - scoring within minutes of coming on as a …
Amazon Alexa
Amazon Wants Alexa to Be Your Piano Teacher
PCMag - Matthew Humphries
The Alexa Gadgets Toolkit gets updated to include Custom Interfaces, which allows Alexa to interact with or control gadgets, games, and smart …
The Arts
New in Paperback: ‘Life in the Garden,’ ‘The Mere Wife’
The New York Times - By MARIA RUSSO
LIFE IN THE GARDEN, by Penelope Lively. (Penguin, $16.) The novelist and essayist Lively hates the term “hobby,” preferring “consuming interest” to describe her passion for gardening. This wide-ranging
Amazon
Amazon’s magazine Gold Box starts under $4: Nat Geo, Reader’s Digest, many more
9to5Toys - Trevor Daugherty
Today only, as part of its Gold Box Deals of the Day, Amazon is offering a variety of print magazine subscriptions from $3.75. Free delivery is available across the board. These subscriptions, which are