The American paperback.
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Ha! Kentucky loves Unbridled Books!
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Emily St. John Mandel
I hope everyone had an enjoyable long weekend! Mine was spent on/in various balconies, backyards and rooftops drinking various beverages. Definitely a promising summer preview.
I’m heading off to Minneapolis this week, so I won’t be doing an events post, but I did want to share a delightful book launch I went to late last week. Brooklyn-based author Emily St. John Mandel presented her newest novel, The Lola Quartet, at WORD Bookstore last Thursday. True to the book’s jazz theme, it was a classy affair. -
From NPR Books. Sigh.
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Please take a minute to watch this “book rush” — a scene taken from the novel HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD by Janyce Stefan-Cole and filmed by Red Cube Pictures.
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Thank you, booksellers!
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Emily St. John Mandel: “The ___’s Daughter” →
I posted an essay on The Millions last week about that phenomenon where a startlingly huge number of books are titled “The ___’s Daughter.” (Seriously, once you start noticing them, they’re everywhere.) It took forever, but it was fun to write. I broke out the PowerPoint. There are wildly…
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The vagaries of fate clearly intrigue [Emily St. John] Mandel, as we discuss how one character’s taking a photograph of a child has an immediate impact that radiates outward.
“What tiny thing that you do changes everything?” Mandel asks, launching into a story of how she met her husband only because she picked up a free newspaper in Toronto more than a decade ago, read a book review and began corresponding with its author. After he became her boyfriend and they moved to New York City, she met the man who eventually became her husband. “If I hadn’t bent down that day and picked up that weekly newspaper, this entire life I’ve built might not have happened,” she muses.
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Claire Kirch, “Dark…and Literary,” Publishers Weekly
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Mandel’s latest, The Lola Quartet, will be released by Unbridled Books in May. It’s one of my most anticipated books of the year!
(via booksmatter)
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Announcing… the #1 Indie Next Pick for May! Thank you indie booksellers!!!!
