John Warner – Page 17

"Uncommon Carriers," "Tabula Rasa" and "Annals of the Former World" by John McPhee.

Biblioracle: Reading can help you explore the world. John McPhee’s ‘Tabula Rasa’ is just such a book.

September 23, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

One of the things I love about reading a good work of nonfiction is that it's like you've dispatched your own explorer into the world, tasked to return with the...

Emma Lovewell attends a SoFi Beyonce Renaissance Tour party on Sept. 2, 2023, in Culver City, California. Her new book is "Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection."

Biblioracle: From Cody Rigsby to Emma Lovewell, your favorite Pelaton instructors have written books

September 16, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

I have spent the entirety of the 53-plus years I've been on this Earth immune to the lure of inspirational self-help books. When it comes to inspiration to be better,...

Packages pass through a scanner at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore. Amazon sells some 40% of all print books sold in the U.S.

Biblioracle: Amazon is a huge bookseller. Can it be fair?

September 9, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Because I'm a capitalist, I like markets. There's something satisfying about having a mechanism that allows entry to any who would wish, and in which the cream rises to the...

Copies of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," published in 2000 as the fourth in the series, and other "Harry Potter" books by British author J. K. Rowling are displayed at a bookstore in San Francisco.

Biblioracle: ‘Harry Potter’-mania had young people reading books for fun. Why has that stopped?

September 2, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure...

"The Fraud" by Zadie Smith, "Wellness" by Nathan Hill and "Devil Makes Three" by Ben Fountain are new books publishing this fall.

Biblioracle: 5 new books you shouldn’t miss this fall

August 26, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

It isn't even Labor Day, and yet I'm already experiencing fall fiction FOMO. For years I've been complaining — sometimes in this space — about the standard practice of publishers...

"The Business of Being a Writer" by Jane Friedman.

Biblioracle: Author Jane Friedman’s reputation was on the line. AI was the culprit.

August 19, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Back in June, Marc Andreessen, co-founder of tech investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, and my fellow graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (go Illini!), wrote about how artificial intelligence was...

"The Shakespeare Requirement," "The English Experience" and "Dear Committee Members" by Julie Schumacher.

Biblioracle: There’s the whiff of real student writing in Schumacher’s Payne University novels

March 12, 2024 at 11:58 a.m.

A recent Gallup poll found public confidence in higher education is at the lowest point in the history of the survey at 36%, a decline of around 20 points as...

Author David Foster Wallace in 1996, shortly after the publication of his bestselling novel "Infinite Jest."

Biblioracle: Patricia Lockwood’s essay about the late David Foster Wallace is, for me, a new lens on an old favorite

August 5, 2023 at 10:20 a.m.

Every so often I like to check back in with my past reading self as a way to gauge who I was then versus who I am now. We all...

Author Lydia Kiesling at home in 2018 in San Francisco. Her second book is "Mobility."

Biblioracle: It is very hard to write a great second novel. Lydia Kiesling does just that with ‘Mobility.’

July 29, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

It is very hard to write a great second novel. Often, a first novel is the product of many years of work, a buildup of everything an individual artist has...

Books that are trending on TikTok are displayed at a Barnes & Noble book store in New York in June 2023. TikTok owner ByteDance is launching a publishing company.

Biblioracle: TikTok’s parent company is getting into the publishing business. Will it work?

July 22, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

TikTok is getting into the publishing business. Well, it's ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok that is getting into the publishing business. ByteDance is apparently distressed that it has a...

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