Australia’s Qantas Airlines is urging passengers to stow their Kindles and ditch their iPads to indulge in books specifically designed for their flight experience. Qantas has commissioned published works of fiction from Australian authors tailored to the length of flights. The “Stories for Every Journey” initiative is the work of Droga5 Sydney, an advertising agency…
There are few summer activities as pleasurable as plopping down with a comfortable towel at the beach and reading an engrossing book until the sun begins setting behind the horizon. Several esteemed writers including Walter Mosley, Maya Angelou and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are capitalizing on the heat wave, releasing new works worth devouring this season….
Hookup culture permeates the college experience. Thousands of students witness themselves and their friends willingly participating in hooking-up without conscious regard for the consequences. Author and Boston University professor Donna Frietas uses extensive research she conducted to examine how hook-up culture impacts sex and romance in her latest book The End of Sex: How Hookup…
Poet, author and activist Maya Angelou is setting her sights on the bestseller lists again. The 84-year-old released her seventh autobiographical memoir, Mom & Me & Mom, today. We’ve been privy to the acclaimed writer’s tumultuous life through I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together In My Name, All God’s Children Need Traveling…
The bliss of spring is upon us. Soon buds will bloom is an array of luscious hues, bringing bibliophiles from under the covers and onto outdoor Barnes and Noble balconies. The joyous season of renewal should also clear space for amazing reads on our bookshelves. Tote these five must-grab novels to the nearest park bench…
Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas isn’t 18 yet, but she’s already churning out the memoirs like a boss. Douglas is preparing to publish Raising the Bar, a follow-up to her best-selling memoir Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith, on April 30, the publisher Zondervan said in a release. According to Reuters, the book will…
It’s winter, and as the snow falls and the wind chills, there is nothing better than cozying up under some covers with a good book. This month’s Clutch Book Club must read is a heartbreaking romantic novel that tests and pushes the bounds and strengths of love. In < em>Me Before You author Jojo Moyes…
I’m not a black artist, I’m an artist — Jean Michel Basquiat After coming to terms with the “African-American Interest” section of Barnes and Noble, different variations of this quote haunted me. I found its remnants in Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination and Skip Gates’ Signifying Monkey. I heard…
Normally I don’t read editorial book reviews, but when I saw “Manology” come across my screen, I headed to the holy grail of reviews, Amazon. Here are just a couple: “It has often been said that it takes a man to raise a man. With MANOLOGY Tyrese and Rev Run are proving another point; it takes men to…
In some ways Misty Copeland could be considered an anomaly. Most ballet dancers are primed early on in life, but Misty Copeland didn’t start taking ballet lessons until she was 13-years-old, which is considered unheard of in the world of ballet. Although she had a late start, that hasn’t prevented Copeland has taken the Ballet world by storm….
