John Warner – Page 19

Biblioracle: Esquire’s writing about books is smart without being only for the literati

May 6, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

When it comes to the history of American literature, there are few, if any bigger names than Esquire magazine. Under the off-and-on fiction editorship of legendary editor Rust Hills from...

Palm Harbor University High senior Hannah Hipolito speaks in February against the banning of "The Bluest Eye" during a Pinellas School Board meeting in the Tampa, Florida area, while the audience waves its hands in support. A district committee revisited the ban on April 18, 2023.

Biblioracle: In Florida, Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ is back on high school shelves

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

After months of absence from the Pinellas County district library in Florida, Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" is back on shelves and available for checkout for 9th through 12th graders....

"The Fates Will Find Their Way," "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" and "Listen to Me" by Hannah Pittard.

Biblioracle: Getting excited for Hannah Pittard’s upcoming memoir ‘We Are Too Many’

April 22, 2023 at 5:20 a.m.

This week I'm going to break a couple of the guidelines I try to hold myself to here. One is that I try not to write about books that aren't...

New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz hosts an upcoming event by Illinois Libraries Present.

Biblioracle: Illinois Libraries Present shows that libraries are more than just a place for books

April 15, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

We all know libraries are places for books and periodicals or public access to the internet, but libraries are many more things than that. You can get help with your...

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, "Miss Lonelyhearts" by Nathanael West and "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Biblioracle: Books with dark humor can actually be really funny, I swear

April 8, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I've been telling people what to...

Author Roxane Gay and musician and author Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson both have their own publishing imprints. Celebrity faces are good news for books, how about bibliophile Chris Pine next?

Biblioracle: Questlove is getting his own publishing imprint. These other celebrities should get one.

April 3, 2023 at 12:57 p.m.

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson — musician, author, award-winning documentarian — is going to have his own publishing imprint, AUWA, nested under MCD books, which is part of one of the Big...

The full John Jakes trilogy was "North and South," "Love and War" and "Heaven and Hell."

Biblioracle: Feeling nostalgic following the death of author John Jakes

March 25, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

By nature, I am not prone to nostalgia. In fact, it's something of the opposite. I'm inherently suspicious of the pull of the past, and the idea that times of...

"The Book of Goose" by Yiyun Li, published in September 2022.

Biblioracle: Ever read a book so immersive that you forget you’re reading?

March 18, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A recent week in March was filled with an unusual amount of travel as I did a series of three public talks in three different cities over four days. No...

University of Washington's Suzzallo Library. English undergraduate degrees have fallen heavily out of favor.

Biblioracle: Employers, don’t sleep on those English majors. We can do stuff.

March 11, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Do you remember that old Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings song, "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys?" The opening stanza goes like this: Mamas, don't let...

Biblioracle: Wannabe writers are churning out stories written by ChatGPT. Are any of them any good?

March 4, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

There used to be a cliché that every lawyer had a draft of a novel stashed in a desk drawer somewhere, the joke being that deep down they wanted to...

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