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‘Queer Love in Color’: Photo book celebrates diverse LGBTQ relationships
An article the journalist Jamal Jordan wrote in 2018 unexpectedly changed his life. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-community-voices/queer-love-color-photo-book-celebrates-diverse-lgbtq-relationships-rcna831 Indie Brew found this story and shared it with you….
George W Bush is back – but not all appreciate his new progressive image
The 43rd president’s tour to promote his new book hasn’t been well received for those who remember his ‘war on terror’ days He’s back. George…
New record for the most expensive comic book ever sold
Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, sold for 10 cents back in 1938. It sold for $3.25 million yesterday. According to CNN, the…
The unseen archives of Douglas Adams
42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams is a forthcoming book, approved by Douglas Adams’s estate and family, that will explore the late author’s…
Douglas Adams’ note to self reveals author found writing torture
Note in which Hitchhiker’s writer reminds himself he will finally get pleasure from process to be part of book based on his archive He was…
Remembering Jack Kerouac, born today in 1922
On this day in 1922, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac entered this world through Lowell, MA and began to burn, burn like a fabulous yellow roman…
Dr. Seuss books shoot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business running the late author’s estate, said it made the decision last year to cease publication and licensing of six of…
There’s Finally a Good Color E Ink Tablet For Comic Books
Just six months after the first e-readers featuring E Ink’s color electronic paper technology arrived, the next generation of devices is already here with upgraded…
Six Dr. Seuss books to stop being published over ‘hurtful and wrong’ racial portrayals
Six Dr. Seuss books are being retired after decades of criticism over racist imagery in the illustrated children’s stories. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that…
What We’re Reading: The ‘Star Wars’ Novels Explore a Galaxy Far, Far Away
While everyone who hasn’t been living under a rock is aware of the Skywalker saga’s various trilogies within the Star Wars universe, not everyone knows…
A new book blames chemicals for growing problems in human reproduction
A new book makes the case that sperm counts have been falling for decades — and a major reason is chemicals in the environment that…
Under a White Sky Asks if We Can Fix Nature—or if We Even Should
In her 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert explored how humanity has driven scores of species to extinction. In…
Listen to this 1964 interview with J.R.R. Tolkien
Denys Gueroult of the BBC interviewed J.R.R. Tolkien in 1964. I enjoyed listening to the posh accents at least as much as the discussion about…
“Hookers and Blow Save Christmas” – a children’s book
Since we’re still within the 12 days of Christmas, I feel safe sharing Hookers and Blow Save Christmas, a new-this-year holiday picture book for children….
Washington Post’s Woodward, Costa to pen book on end of Trump presidency
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are planning to write a book on the end of President Trump’s tenure and the beginning of President-elect…
Here are the most 2020 books of 2020
Angela Haupt presents a list of the books that best summarise this tumultuous year Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/most-pandemic-2020-books-novels-reading-b1760496.html Indie Brew found this story and shared it with…
A Promised Land: Obama reveals the meaning behind the title of his new memoir
Former president also explained the note he wrote for Donald Trump before leaving the White House Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/obama-a-promised-land-book-michelle-trump-b1723525.html Indie Brew found this story and shared…
Obama makes veiled attack over Trump’s handling of Covid pandemic in new book
In what will be Mr Obama’s third book, A Promised Land, the 44th president talks about how his administration handled the H1N1 Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/obama-book-a-promised-land-trump-covid-biden-b1721361.html Droolin’…
Review: ‘White Ivy’ is a dark, suspenseful immigration tale
Associated Press critic Molly Sprayregen writes that “White Ivy” is dark, suspenseful, and beautifully written Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/review-white-ivy-is-a-dark-suspenseful-immigration-tale-american-girl-massachusetts-chinese-senator-b1533450.html Indie Brew found this story and shared it…
A New Photo Book Shows America’s Last True Wilderness
If you’re a nature-lover in the U.S., you’re probably familiar with the National Park Service and how it protects landscapes. But a new book shows…
Oprah Winfrey reveals the seven books that ‘see me through’
With Election Day approaching and the pandemic ongoing, Oprah Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/oprah-book-club-toni-morrison-james-baldwin-ta-nehisi-coates-apple-b1345577.html Indie Brew found this story…
‘The West Wing’ cast reunites again, this time for a book
The stars of “The West Wing” are once again joining together, this time for a book about the award-winning White House television drama Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/the-west-wing-cast-reunites-again-this-time-for-a-book-hope-stars-program-ap-new-york-b1155758.html…
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