When Munro won the Nobel Prize in 2013, the Swedish Academy called her “a master of the contemporary short story.” The queen of subtly intense psychological stories about the ways rural pove...
By a human, that is. “I did an event with Leila Slimani where she said she thought her translators know her better than her family. She puts most of her consciousness and her life into her boo...
Witherspoon: “When there’s a big economic shift in the media business, it’s not the superhero movies or independent films we lose out on. It’s the middle, which is usually where women li...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/books/reese-witherspoon-book-club.html
That foreign accent students sometimes come home with after studying abroad isn’t (or isn’t only) an affectation. – The Atlantic (MSN)
Here’s his argument. He’s wrong, of course. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/lets-chill-out-about-apostrophes.html#new_tab
What Munro did was not so much write about women as write from inside them. When her characters don’t understand exactly what they’re feeling, she expresses it in such a way that you can...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/deborah-treisman-postscript-alice-munro
“What does it mean to defend writers amid a polarizing war? When should a group that promotes free expression for all take sides? And at a time of extreme humanitarian crisis that some see as ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/arts/pen-free-expression-gaza.html#new_tab
“On Tuesday, 97% of Condé Union members voted ‘yes’ on a three-year deal” settled after 18 months of negotiations. “The agreement, which averted a threatened strike from workers at th...
They call it “filler,” and it’s hard not to regard it as something bordering on the sublinguistic, an almost intolerable torturing of the magnificent instrument bequeathed to us by Shakesp...
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/missing-character/articles/like
“The videos often begin with … a person ripping the covers off a book. They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part in a growing trend for replacing the covers of favouri...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/12/bookbinding-rejuvenated-tiktok#new_tab
OK, bring back the 18th century: “Cordelia gets a romance. … She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people are punished. The good people get rewarded.” – Happy Dancing
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/shakespeares-king-lear-had-a-happy-ending-for-140/
“Tóibín is a master of silence and shadows; his subjects are abandonment, loss and denial – the things not said, the feelings not acted on.” – The Guardian (UK)
“It is a piece of sage advice, a writer’s mantra, that I have made good use of through the years and that I now pass on to you: Ah, fuck ‘em.” – LitHub
https://lithub.com/alice-mcdermotts-writing-mantra-ah-fuck-em/
The earliest were Renaissance glossaries. “These forerunners did not set out to define every known word. Instead, they set a narrower goal of annotating technical terms circulating in particul...
https://hyperallergic.com/912138/tracing-the-500-year-history-of-the-english-dictionary/
“This store would probably still be a pipe dream if the book bans hadn’t happened,” said Groff, who has lived in Gainesville since 2006. “I want this for me too. I don’t want to live i...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/books/lauren-groff-bookstore-lynx.html
“Over the past two decades, she has become one of Turkish literature’s most attacked authors. … Shafak’s case is part of a wider trend in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ‘new Turke...
https://www.thedial.world/issue-16/elif-shafak-turkish-writers-erdogan#new_tab
He argues that LLMs demonstrate a wide range of powerful language abilities and disprove foundational assumptions underpinning Noam Chomsky’s theories and, as a consequence, negate parts of mo...
https://slator.com/how-large-language-models-prove-chomsky-wrong-with-steven-piantadosi/
At 75, César Aira has written more than 100 books, has been translated into 37 languages, and has lately been tipped for a Nobel Prize. He accepts no money for his books within Argentina, won�...
Though the OED is published by Oxford University Press, it is, in many respects, the spiritual and intellectual opposite of an elite university. For one thing, its admissions policy is quite f...
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/skinner-oxford-english-dictionary-Ogilvie
“Several years ago, a Chinese author spent hundreds of thousands of yuan bribing the Chinese publishing industry (to) criticize and ban his works,” so that US publishers would be interested ...
If we look at the longer history of the study of literature… it’s only at the very end of the 20th century that we got something that is professional, that can be called criticism, that has ...
https://www.publicbooks.org/interpret-or-judge-john-guillory-on-the-future-of-literary-criticism/
Night Watch took honors for fiction, Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama for general nonfiction, Cristina Rivera Garza’s Liliana’s Invincible Summer for memoir, Brandon Som’...
OK, blame screens a little, but also the loss of peer hangout time during the pandemic; the right-wing campaign against school libraries and librarians – and the un-delightful experience of be...
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html
In short: A human is better, but live translation programs are already pretty great (if the world you want is machine learning, “universal” translations without enough subtlety, and great wo...
https://www.wired.com/story/translation-tech-is-amazing-except-when-its-not/
In the spirit of the Joanna Coles profile in New York Magazine, some ideas: “• 7,000 typos that somehow made it into the finished copy of your book • 31 most unlikeable female memoirists.�...
The collective putting it on could use an equivalent funder, but they don’t trust the Smithsonian after last year’s sudden, unexplained cancellation weeks before the kick-off. – Washington...
This episode of the podcast There’s More to That tells the whole story, from how these papyruses buried by the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE were discovered were rediscovered in the 1700s to how ...
A book’s demand, condition, publishing history, whether it is signed or inscribed, and even the timing of when a book enters the market are all factors that affect its value. – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/05/rare-book-private-collection-ethics/678254/
“Since 2022, more than 170 books valued at more than $2.6 million … have vanished from (national and university libraries across Europe). The books are worth tens to hundreds of thousands of...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/books/booksupdate/rare-books-pushkin-disappearance.html#new_tab
“According to the report (commissioned by HarperCollins), 74% of YA readers were adults, and 28% were over the age of 28. The research suggests this is due to behavioural changes described as ...
“Inspired by the existing Albatross Books, (Allen) Lane’s nascent company wanted an animal for (a) mascot. Many years (later), designer Edward Young explained that after a couple hours of fr...
“Less than a week after canceling its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony following months of mounting criticism over the organization’s response to the crisis in Gaza, PEN America has also cancel...
Did you know Ernest Hemingway came up with the word for byline (though he spelled it by-line). “Signed articles could occasionally be found before 1926, but they were not the standard practice...
In Moses McKenzie’s new book, the main character isn’t self-reflective at all. “It’s difficult to write in the first person and create empathy for a character like that.” Salinger’s ...
The man who invented the deep state “wasn’t just a writer and soldier. He was an anti-communist intelligence operative who helped define U.S. psychological operations, or psyops, during Worl...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/science-fiction-conspiracy-theory-psyops/678195/
In honor of yesterday’s Independent Bookstore Day (which, of course, we could all celebrate every day), here’s a visual analysis of some of the bookstores of New York. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/nyc-bookstores-people.html
“Court etiquette of the Sengoku era, as well as the gender politics of the time, mean a lot of things cannot be said explicitly. Even if you speak the same language as someone, you can never f...
https://www.vulture.com/article/eriko-miyagawa-shogun-translation-producer-interview.html
Until approximately the tenth century, when the practice of silent reading expanded thanks to the invention of punctuation, reading was synonymous with reading aloud. Silent reading was terri...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/04/reading-aloud-health-brain/678194/
The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. – The E...
“Chicago-based firm Global Tetrahedron — which shares a name with a mock corporation that served as a long-running gag on the satirical news site and was featured in its staffers’ 1999 boo...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-onion-new-owner-satirical-name_n_662b1f7be4b01a688b3e64c1#new_tab
The rewriting of old books is hardly a new practice, though it’s one that critics often like to complain about. Doesn’t anyone have an original idea? Can’t we just leave the classics alon...
“Today Dallas is home to one of the most dynamic, international literary scenes in the country, inspired in many ways by the infectious, D.I.Y. energy of Deep Vellum, now one of the country’...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/books/booksupdate/dallas-deep-vellum-wild-detectives.html#new_tab
“Minnesota is one of several Democratic-leaning states where lawmakers are now pursuing bans on book bans. The Washington and Maryland legislatures have passed them this year; Illinois did so ...
“Delegates from the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska sought the return of five items, including a 170-year-old clan house partition. … One Tlingit and Haida c...
Another meaning of the word “magazine” is a store of munitions. My own addition to the arsenal of the free press, Standpoint, was founded in 2008. I was editor for just over a decade, durin...
Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into a rallying cry to...
“Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of nominees had dropped out of the ...
Many of them gleefully share misinformation or repackage basic facts from WikiHow behind a title that’s been search-engine-optimized to hell and back again. Some of them even steal the names ...
https://www.vox.com/culture/24128560/amazon-trash-ebooks-mikkelsen-twins-ai-publishing-academy-scam
“His reaction to The Magic Eye showed Kubrick’s image-control obsessions taken to extremes. He didn’t just make edits – he erased the entire project.” But now, after the director’s...
The young speedster says, Ttraining your eye to move back and forth from clues to grid without losing your place, remembering clues when you can, really helps.” – The Atlantic
That is, the side where some books are bound in human skin. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/arts/books-human-skin-harvard.html
“Many readers are seeking fiction that addresses environmental issues but explores a successful paradigm shift: fiction that accurately addresses our current issues with intelligence and hope....
https://reactormag.com/eco-fiction-novels-worth-celebrating/
Libraries, actually, are not just great places, but the absolute best places to write. – LitHub
https://lithub.com/an-oasis-in-the-desert-why-libraries-are-the-best-places-to-write/
Davis and her husband Julius Tennon are opening JVL Media, adding to their TV and movie production business – their company that has brought out hits like TV’s How I Got Away with Murder and...
“It occurred to me that in Iowa you don’t need a permit to carry a gun — open or concealed. A current of people was funneling into the library, and I joined them. I sensed, eerily, that so...
A book is different from a pair of shoes or a scented candle—but is it that different? The kinds of excess we permit—even exalt—for books is unheard of for other categories of possessions....
“Not every workplace features a guillotine. … Fearsome machines are part of daily life at the lab, which serves as a hospital where ailing books from every department of the museum are resto...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/books/book-conservation-met.html#new_tab
“Amid growing criticism over its response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, freedom of expression nonprofit PEN America is facing questions over whether its Literary Awards ceremony, World V...
Instead of standing up for the robust exchange of ideas, lawmakers in state after state are pushing bills that would criminalize librarians for putting certain books on the shelves. Nuisance l...
https://www.newsweek.com/i-am-black-librarian-we-are-being-threatened-1890695
The full multiday festival – which last year saw 175 authors appearing in more than 120 events across 10 days – will still not go ahead. However, Wee Write, a festival for children and young...
“The rules are always the same: 30 minutes before the meeting’s official start time, people can come, share what they are reading and find a place to sit. Then someone rings a bell or makes ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-silent-book-clubs-socializing-is-optional/ar-BB1lyD4p#new_tab
Small presses play a crucial role in the American literary landscape, publishing books that have artistic merit but little commercial potential. Without S.P.D., it could be far more difficult fo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/books/small-press-distribution-closure.html
“Several authors have turned down awards and awards nominations from PEN America, citing unhappiness with the literary and free expression organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.” – AP
https://apnews.com/article/pen-america-awards-turned-down-d84fd1e08c8fe2a80b7b4f046236e9b5#new_tab
“The new report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis, reports 4,349 book bans recorded across 23 states and 52 public school districts from July to December 2023. … More book bans were r...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-#new_tab
Income from commercial translation work has fallen significantly since the beginning of 2023. The loss of non-literary streams of income for literary translators will mean the “raising of the ...
“Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks announced that they have joined the initial plaintiffs, which included PRH, the Iowa State Education Association, four re...
The generative-AI boom, despite promises to bridge languages and cultures, may only further entrench the dominance of English in life on and off the web. – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/generative-ai-low-resource-languages/678042/
“The goal of Smut, says Scollard, is to ‘champion work that might find it difficult to get published elsewhere – maybe a bit risqué or provocative. But the main basis is that we want to w...
Library workers aren’t happy. “The City is denying Seattleites 1,500 hours of learning, checking out books, applying for jobs, talking with neighbors, sheltering from bad weather, and, thoug...
Emi Mahmoud has been trying to bring Sudan to life for non-Sudanese people for years. But now, the poet’s urgency has increased due to the country’s last year of intense civil war. – NPR
“What a remarkable change it would be if corporations would allow their employees to do the best job they can with each book that the company has chosen to buy, rather than allowing them to fl...
https://lithub.com/there-are-too-many-books-or-publishing-shouldnt-be-all-about-quantity/
Don’t the Writers Guild Awards usually happen before the Oscars? Sure, but not every year includes a monthslong historic strike. – Variety
“I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum or other, and coming for me in just this way. So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing toward...
“During the years leading up to his death in a Russian prison, the Russian opposition leader was writing a memoir about his life and work as a pro-democracy activist. Titled Patriot, the memoi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/books/booksupdate/aleksei-navalny-memoir.html#new_tab
According to the recordings, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of generative AI, told executives that the company had used almost every book, poem and essay written in English available on...
Since these digital services first promised to boil down a title, usually a nonfiction work, a decade ago, the marketplace has become crowded. So much so that authors and publishers are concerne...
In the foreword to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a possible second Donald Trump administration, it says “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Ed...
“The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game. … But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system and be quicker to play....
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68769981#new_tab
The San Andrés Tetepilco codices — three late 16th-early 17th century manuscripts, one of which recounts the history of the Aztec capital (on the site of present-day Mexico City) from 1300 to...
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rare-aztec-manuscripts-acquired-by-mexico-2462468#new_tab
By comparison, the number of book titles challenged annually from 2000 to 2020 was fairly stable and never exceeded 400 targets in a given year. – The Wall Street Journal
American Library Association President Emily Drabinski: “Everywhere I go, the story is the same: library workers are afraid. They have a lot of anxiety. Even in places where they’re not seei...
She bought land – and sheep. So many sheep. Honestly, #goals. – Washington Post
“Reader and writer, therapist and client, come together to conjure something in a mysterious symbiosis that will help make sense of the experience of being alive. We can uncover stories we hav...
https://lithub.com/what-fiction-writing-shares-with-psychotherapy/
Newly translated, her books are winning attention. Says writer Raoul de Jong, “There was a whole system in place to keep voices like hers silent. … The recognition, to me, is not only for As...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/books/booksupdate/astrid-roemer-off-white.html
Myriam J.A. Chancy: “When history is a nightmare, all one can do is circumvent it, write another version, a fiction. This is what literature is for: rewriting, revising.” – LitHub
https://lithub.com/myriam-j-a-chancy-on-writing-as-an-act-of-conjuring/
The complexity and melancholy of Cloud Atlas have inspired “cosplay, reader art, fan fiction and scholarship … in great quantity. It is a response that one might expect to a bestselling fan...
The author of Erasure, adapted as American Fiction and nominated for several Oscars, and the new James, says a bad review “might be fun? That’s gonna be kind of crazy, to be upset about a ba...
“Living in a cell the size of a parking space without a television, tablet, phone, or air-conditioning and an only temperamental radio signal, a book is more than entertainment and much needed...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/05/used-bookstores-guide/
Some wisdom from Michael Dirda includes wearing grubby clothes, starting at the sales cart – and taking your time. – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/05/used-bookstores-guide/
The new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival has warned Scotland is at risk of losing arts events “every other week” without more public funding for culture and revealed tha...
The problem is that “fastest” could, in this context, mean four different things. Syllables per minute? Amount of information conveyed per minute? And so on. Quantitative linguist François P...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-fastest-language#new_tab
Millions of books, including self-published titles, are issued every year. But, according to an Economist/YouGov poll, 46 percent of Americans did not read a book last year. There are any numbe...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/03/daylight-reading-wrong/
A single scribe is said to have written the codex, which is made up of 52 leaves – or 104 pages – over a period of 40 years at a monastery in upper Egypt. – CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/style/oldest-book-biblical-auction-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
The Trilogy firms—which are controlled by Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz, an Indigo board member and the husband of Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman—already own 60.6% of all of I...
During her 16 years at Random House, Morrison wrote hundreds of rejection letters. Usually typed on pink, yellow, or white carbonless copy paper, and occasionally bearing Random House’s old lo...
Benjamin Franklin, who founded the Library Company of Philadelphia In 1731. “(It) allowed members — at first, largely male artisans of modest means — to purchase (low-cost) shares in the l...
Well, first he spent two weeks considering suicide. Then he realized that, with today’s technology and his international contacts, he could set about recreating the books he lost. – The Guar...
“The closing of the distributor sent shockwaves throughout the entire independent publishing community, as it came with little warning. … SPD provided distribution to about 400 publishers, i...
Associations, it emerges, are the currency of crosswords — the cleverest clues are dense with puns, word play and sly allusions. – Washington Post
“Frost remains one of the greatest literary enumerators of a particularly modern darkness, regardless of his reputation (among those who refuse to read him carefully). … Now, on the 150th an...
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/americas-great-poet-of-darkness#new_tab
In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of each book, they’re tweaking fonts, layout, and even the ink used. And so far, these subtle, imperceptible tweaks have saved 245.6 million pages, ...
https://www.artsjournal.com/2024/04/how-harper-collins-is-tweaking-book-design-to-save-trees.html
Classics is no longer sleepy. The legacies of ancient Greece and Rome have reemerged as key cultural battlefields fought over by everyone from left-wing scholars to gun rights advocates. – LA...
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-crisis-of-classical-studies-on-mary-beards-emperor-of-rome/
We talked to a few super-readers, who routinely finish hundreds of books a year, about their habits and goals — and asked them about what tips they have for the rest of us. – Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/30/super-readers-how-to-read-more/
Over the last twenty years, the number of independent book publishers has grown by over 21 percent, with independent publishing now making up over 35 percent of the market. For publishers like B...
https://lithub.com/more-stories-more-voices-on-the-importance-of-the-smallish-book-publisher/
On social media, erstwhile readers post out of “a combination of obligation, social performance, genuine curiosity, love of books, and a desire to be involved, plus a dollop of early-adopteris...
https://reactormag.com/on-letting-go-of-the-idea-of-keeping-up/
Or, as it’s more commonly called, ‘monster smut.’ One bookseller says, “We had one that actually sold out really fast where it was called Hot Tyrannosaurus Rex. It’s just like, dinosa...
Sure, this is a work that would later become The Making of Americans, but in 1912, it was an experimental poetry manuscript rejected out of hand, and with snark, by London publisher Alfred C. Fi...
Make it a community affair – or read in a new spot in your town or city. Adjust your genre plans. Or, you know, just dump the goals and have a good time. – NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241024462/how-to-set-reading-goals-national-reading-month
The author of the book died by suicide in 1963. “All she left was a note by her bed for her son, Abbas, that read: ‘I do love you, it’s just that life is unbearable. Forgive me.’ After h...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/books/booksupdate/iman-mersal-traces-enayat.html
Most of the new Japanese words relate to food, but there’s also art, including “kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by joining pieces back together and filling cracks with...
Of course, the author of Alice in Wonderland embraced the joys of sleeplessness. “For Carroll, waking and dreaming were not quite the opposites they seem to be. And since he believed dreaming ...
As the popular author’s books get turned into a TV series and a movie, she says, “It does feel like an answer to a prayer. … I just feel like I can almost see God smiling.” – The New Y...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/books/karen-kingsbury-the-baxters.html
“What is unquantifiable is horrifying to the corporate overlords, of course, but it’s the magic that connects readers with particular books.” – LitHub
https://lithub.com/for-book-recommendations-people-are-always-better-than-algorithms/
Small Press Distribution, founded in 1969, was the country’s only not-for-profit literary distributor. It served roughly 400 small. independent presses and was known for getting unknown or exp...
“Bedford Media, the holding company founded by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her husband, investor Josh Kushner, has acquired the publishing rights to Life from Dotdash Meredith. Bed...
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, and How to Say...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/27/womens-prize-for-nonfiction-shortlist#new_tab
“The real question I had “was could I write poems anymore? … I didn’t want to miss out on a certain pensiveness, and a certain relationship with language, that only poetry can demand.”...
https://lithub.com/telling-everything-all-at-once-a-conversation-with-michael-ondaatje/#new_tab
Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern Language Association, better...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-end-of-foreign-language-education/ar-BB1kz4wM#new_tab
To praise Shakespeare is also to praise his audience. Not just the one that filled the Globe during his lifetime, but the subsequent generations, too, that have cherished and preserved him, tha...
Nowadays when we speak of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, we mostly refer to its more reputable side. But similar to the proliferation of rumors and falsehoods on social media platforms...
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-multiplication-of-monsters-from-gutenberg-to-qanon/
“It’s one of those books that manage to dip into the collective unconscious of their own age and society. … Underneath the ‘horror’ … is always the real horror: the all-too-actual po...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/stephen-king-carrie-50-anniversary.html#new_tab
You know, the ones about or by Black people, LGBTQIA people, and so on? Where a note on a book about Native Americans read, “negative slant on white people”? The New York City Department of ...
“Don’t be too precious about things. And also: everything has the potential to be precious.” – LitHub
https://lithub.com/lisa-ko-how-writing-a-novel-is-like-wandering-a-flea-market/
That was the remit for Dune, both Part One and the strike-delayed, well-reviewed Dune, Part Two. “For language constructors — conlangers, as they are known — small touches enhance the veri...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/movies/dune-language-fremen.html
“I feel like I’m fusing with the photograph. There’s even a sound in my head like a whaaaa. I feel like, Oh my God, this is one of those old beautiful buildings. And what would happen if...
https://lithub.com/a-restoration-of-hope-maniza-naqvi-on-saving-karachis-oldest-bookstore/
The author of The Color of Water and Deacon King Kong has known good sales before, but now? The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store has sold more than a million copies since it came out last summer. ...