Meet Lisa Ko 7:00 PM on Monday, June 5 at Books Inc. in Alameda!
‘The Leavers’ Novelist Lisa Ko Found Success Through Massive Failure
It took eight-and-a-half years for Ko to write and edit her book. Meanwhile, she juggled all kinds of jobs, from freelancing as an editor to adjunct teaching and full-time office work, writing when she could. Her persistence has paid off. The book launches in Manhattan on May 2, followed by a national book tour in May and June.
Lisa See’s new novel draws readers along a fantastic tea-infused trail
Utopia in the Time of Trump
New York 2140 reviewed by Gerry Canavan
MARCH 11, 2017
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Can people please stop telling me feminism is hot?'
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: EW Review
REVIEWED BY LEAH GREENBLATT@LEAHBATS
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 17, 2017 AT 9:00AM EST
Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls
Culture Clash, Survival And Hope In 'Pachinko'
'Perfect Little World' Imagines Family Drama Inside A Utopian Compound
Wilson broke out with his 2011 debut novel, The Family Fang, about two married, avant-garde artists who deploy their children as props in their performance pieces. That novel was ingenious — a whirlwind of screwball comedy, art and sad realizations about the limitations of family.
Mrs. King and Coretta: A Posthumous Memoir Explores Public and Private Selves
By PATRICIA J. WILLIAMSJAN. 11, 2017
MY LIFE, MY LOVE, MY LEGACY
By Coretta Scott King, as told to Barbara Reynolds
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‘A Really Good Day’: One harried mom’s LSD experiment
Kill the Next One
Federico Axat, trans. from the Spanish by David Frye. Mulholland
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Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography
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Know Thyself? 'Swing Time' Says It's Complicated
November 16, 20167:00 AM ET
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Meet David Thomson Wednesday, December 7 at Books Inc. Opera Plaza!
Television: a Biography by David Thomson review – a journey into the screen age
A family watching television in their home, circa 1955. Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images
Monday 24 October 2016 02.00 EDT
Thomson applauds Lucille Ball for laying waste to this suffocating idyll in the frenzied rampages of I Love Lucy.
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Book Review: The game is life in ‘Gamblers Anatomy’
Backgammon powerhouse Alexander Bruno plays for high stakes in the latest novel by Jonathan Lethem.
THE FUTURE OF SEX IS ALREADY HERE
After a breakup, 30-year-old writer Emily Witt tried just about everything the Internet age has to offer. And learned about herself along the way.
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SHIRLEY JACKSON
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Review: ‘Blood at the Root,’ a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home
Reviewed by JENNIFER SENIOR SEPT. 14, 2016
.) As he was doing his research, Mr. Phillips, who grew up in Forsyth County, realized how uncomfortably abstract this purge had become, even to him. Misinformation and distortions about it were part of the soundtrack of his childhood. They masked prodigious bigotry and made a whitewash of history.Abel Meeropol originally a poem by Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit,”“Blood at the Root” is a compendium of horrors and a catalog of shame. (The title comes from the
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Review: ‘Darktown’ by Thomas Mullen has intense plot
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‘The Nix’ Is the Love Child of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace
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THE BOOK by Kieth Houston
A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Review Posted Online: May 14th, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1st, 2016
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Web Exclusive – August 16, 2016
THE GENTLEMAN
A wild journey to reclaim a lost bride
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‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today
Reviewed by Ron Charles August 12