'Serial,' 'Lore,' 'Still Processing,' and More: The Atlantic's 50 Best Podcasts of 2016 - The Atlantic. Gone are the days of explaining what a podcast is: The arrival of money to the form and a continued increase in listeners has led to another banner year and the premiere of hundreds of shows to suit any listener’s audio preferences. Whether it’s entrepreneurial advice, video game breakdowns, or candid looks at celebrities, if you know what you want, there’s likely a show that offers exactly that.
Finding them, though, can be a trial-by-fire enterprise that requires serious listening hours. The following shows don’t require you to love a certain movie or have a particular sense of humor. They don’t force you to become best friends with the host or listen to five episodes before you pick up on the “in” jokes. 1. Heavyweight explores the tricky business of redemption and estrangement by starting with the premise that to make something right, you have to first get over the idea that someone is at fault. Gateway Episode: “Gregor” Banner Episode: “Tara” 2. Banner Episode: “White Like Me” 3. 4. The 10 Page-Turners You Should Be Reading This Fall. Is there anything better than a crisp fall day, a cozy blanket, and a good book?
With summer fading into the distance behind us and as we all retreat indoors for the season, there’s no better time to crack open a great novel and get reading. Here are 10 great books you need to put on your reading list this fall: 1. You Can’t Touch My Hair – and Other Things I Still Have To Explain Comedian Phoebe Robinson is perhaps best known for her work on 2 Dope Queens, the podcast she co-hosts with The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams.
In her hilarious collection of short essays, Robinson addresses race and gender as they intermingle with comedy and pop-culture. Warning: Reading this on the subway will result in other passengers sending you weird looks as you continuously laugh out loud – I would know. Click here to buy "You Can’t Touch My Hair – and Other Things I Still Have To Explain" on Amazon 2. Click here to buy "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo" on Amazon 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Critics' summer reads book recommendations 2016 — Quartz. There’s a new wave of books coming out now in time for summer reading for those of us in the northern hemisphere, with a mix of familiar names and debut authors who are worth paying attention to.
Annie Proulx, Stephen King, and Dave Eggers are among the veterans releasing new works. And Emma Cline and Yaa Gyasi are newcomers whose novels have attracted early buzz. Book critics have started to issue their picks for summer reads, focused primarily on books being released in the coming weeks for the summer season. Quartz analyzed the lists published by a number of news organizations, including the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Newsday, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and the Wall Street Journal (fiction and nonfiction.)
Here are all of the books recommended by multiple critics at those publications: The New York Times calls Cline’s The Girls, due out June 14, “the debut novel that the publishing world can’t stop talking about.” New Spring 2016 Books - Spring 2016 Breakout Novels. The Best Books Of The 21st Century [Infographic] While the 21st Century is a scant 16 years old this year, it’s already thrown up a number of interesting, moving and undeniably unique works of literature (and also Twilight). This infographic shortlists the best of the best and will help you to choose which book to read next based on your personal preferences. Image by iunewind (Shutterstock). We’ve espoused the benefits of reading in previous infographics, including boosting your productivity, so here’s a helpful chart to help you decide which novel to sink your teeth into next.
With everything from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to Harry Potter to Perseopolis, you’re sure to find something you’ll love. [USC Rossier] Beach Read Books Summer Beach Books 2016. 21 Books To Read When You Need A Laugh, Because We've All Been There. Books have the power to do so many magical things. They can transport you to new and exciting places. They inspire your creativity. They teach you the most important life lessons. Books can make you think, smile, and weep, but the best kind is the ones that can make you laugh.
Sure, it's great to read the tear-jerkers, the thought-provokers, and the literary classics. But sometimes, there's nothing better than setting down to a good book and finding yourself doubled over, laughing aloud. No matter what kind of sense of humor you have, you'll be able to find something to make you LOL in one of these 21 books. Image: Tom Tetro/Flickr 'I Was Told There'd Be Cake' by Sloane Crosley Sometimes, nothing is more hilarious than real life, especially if real life is that of a lost, confused, struggling twentysomething-year-old. 'Damned' by Chuck Palahniuk If you thought Hell would be a scary place, think again. 'Bridget Jones's Diary' by Helen Fielding You’ve probably seen the movie. All 339 Books Referenced In "Gilmore Girls" 50 Sexy Books to Get You in the Mood (for Valentine’s Day)
As Valentine’s Day (not to mention yet another cold night) approaches, you may find yourself in the mood for love. But what if you don’t? Never fear, because all you have to do is pick up a book. Yes, reading is sexy — especially when you’re reading one of these books, which range from literary fiction (with, ahem, some notable scenes) to famously romantic plays to “highbrow academia porn” to real literary erotica. After the jump, check out 50 books guaranteed to get you in the mood — or at least provide you with some seasonally appropriate train reading — and chime in with any titillating lit missing here in the comments. The Virgins, Pamela Erens Overheated boarding school romance has never been so delicious.
And then there’s that voyeuristic, overly imaginative narrator for an extra layer of filmy allure. 15 Highly Anticipated Books From (Mostly) Small Presses. 50 Books by Women Authors to Read for #ReadWomen2014. I applaud anyone thinking of doing #readwomen2014, even as I’m not sure I’ll be doing it myself in any formal way. Making it a point to read books that emerge from a wide variety of human experiences will never be a bad thing. Everyone should do it. The end. But I notice people seem in need of suggestions for what to read, in that case. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki I just finished reading this novel, which tells the entwined stories of a writer named Ruth in British Columbia and a girl named Nao in Japan. ABM Book Club: February Selection. TRAVEL: MY FAVOURITE BOOKS. 20th January 2014 If your New Year’s Resolution this year is to travel more, you’re not alone.
But what if you don’t get to travel as much as you would like? Short of throwing off the shackles of life and and work and becoming a nomad backpacker (time to stock up on dreadlock wax and fisherman’s pants!) It’s likely that 2014 is going to be similar to most other years – so many dream destinations, so little time. For me, that’s where novels come in. Even if you do get to travel as much as you like, fiction is a great way to research and learn about a place you’re going, in a more meaningful way than a plain old wiki search (bearing in mind that fiction books aren’t always completely accurate, but to me that’s half the fun). Pin It London - Londoners* by Craig Taylor| High Fidelity by Nick Hornby| Brick Lane by Monica Ali New York – What I Loved by Siri Hustvendt | Just Kids by Patti Smith Barcelona – The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Paris – Perfume* by Patrick Suskind.
Donna Tartt’s Magical ‘The Goldfinch’ Is So Much More Than ‘Harry Potter’ for Adults. Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch is a myth exploded. It’s a fairy tale for grown-ups, an outsized caper, a tragic love story, an improbable crime novel, a bromance, a coming-of-age tale, a dissection of family life post-divorce and post-death, an exercise in life-as-ekphrasis. Despite its wide range — nearly 800 pages — bustling cast of characters, and multiple coincidences (Dickens will come up in nearly every review of this book, and Tartt is a devoted fan), this is a novel that will enchant you into believing before you blink an eye. We start with the origin story of our protagonist Theo, which holds the same recognizable kind of magic that the origins of tragic orphans so often do. His mother is killed in a random bombing; an old, dying man presses a golden ring and a priceless painting into his hands and gives him a rhyming mission: “Hobart and Blackwell… Ring the green bell.”
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Cick here to see Bowie's top books The titles, ranging from Viz comic’s vulgarity to The Divided Self, R.D. Laing’s exploration into the nature of mental illness, reflect the broad range of influences Bowie has absorbed throughout his chameleon career. The list, released to mark the Canadian opening of the David Bowie Is exhibition, now on tour after a sell-out run at the Victoria and Albert Museum, also hints at the somewhat pretentious, aspiring 60s singer, who brandished a copy of Camus’s The Stranger on the Underground for effect. The “Bowie’s 100 books” list was sent to the exhibition curators by the singer’s archivist, who keeps watch over a treasure chest of 75,000 costumes, sheet music, books and other memorabilia. The exhibition’s audio guide features an interview with Bowie in which he says that, if he hadn’t become a musician, he “would have written novels,” referring to his songs as “little stories set to music.”
Bowie’s 100 books City of Night – John Rechy – mid 60’s - Hardback. 10 Must-Read Books for October. Autumn is new-book season, and as we wind our way into the days when the trees begin shedding, the Halloween decorations start going up, and the air becomes cooler, October offers up some of the year’s most anticipated titles. This month’s crop includes Jonathan Franzen teaching the masses about Karl Kraus, a Philip Roth reader, a new Elizabeth Gilbert novel, and a handful of other great books to help ease us from Indian Summer into straight-up sweater weather.
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (October 22) The #Galleybrag book of the year, Tartt’s first novel since 2002′s The Little Friend and third overall is about to soar to the top of the to-read list for everyone who likes fiction. At a sprawling 800 pages, it follows a 13-year-old boy who loses his beloved mother — and gains a secret and an obsession in the form of the titular painting — in an explosion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Book News: National Book Award Fiction Longlist Includes Lahiri, Pynchon : The Two-Way. True Love, Book Fights, And Why Ugly Stories Matter : Monkey See. Regular Monkey See readers know that I've been a fan for some time of Rainbow Rowell, whose first book, Attachments, was a thoughtful romance that utterly charmed me. (Full disclosure: It was after I began reading her books that I got to know Rowell a bit, enough that we actually met in person for the first time Tuesday night for dinner, ahead of her Wednesday night event at Politics & Prose in Washington, where she'll be talking about her new book, Fangirl.)
But it's news about Eleanor & Park, the book she wrote between Attachments and Fangirl, that had me fretting and frustrated this morning as soon as I woke up. Yesterday, Rowell spoke to Mallory Ortberg at The Toast about the fact that the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota had canceled her upcoming visit to talk about Eleanor & Park, which school librarians had chosen as an optional summer read. It's the same story throughout. Kids in school read books about sad and difficult things all the time. 30 "Guilty Pleasure" Books That Are In Fact Awesome. 50 Works of Fiction in Translation That Every English Speaker Should Read. There’s an entire world of literature out there if you just look beyond what was written in your native tongue. Major works in other languages are being translated into English all the time, meaning that there’s no time like the present for you to enjoy books from places like Russia, Egypt, Mexico, and other nations around the globe.
If you’re looking to get your literary passport stamped, here are 50 destinations to start you off — but, by all means, don’t let these be the only translated books you read. There are plenty of other titles that could have gone on this list, whose main purpose is to help get you excited for literature originally written in different languages. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (Edith Grossman, translator) Cervantes’ classic is one of the only books that can truly be considered required reading around the world, so you can’t lose with the great Grossman’s translation of the classic Spanish tale of Don Quixote’s original quixotic quest. Oyster iPhone Digital E-Library App. 40 Trashy Novels You Must Read Before You Die. First things first: the history of the novel is already tangled up with the notion of “trash.” Peruse the great 19th-century realist novels — particularly Jane Austen’s, say — and you’ll catch characters insulting each other’s reading habits.
But there are a lot of reasons to read other than intellectual elevation. Relaxation is one; keeping up with what everyone else is reading is another. Here are 40 of the greatest trashy books written in the last hundred years that, if you’re not looking for perfect prose, will surely decrease muscle tension over a weekend, or on vacation. These books aren’t perfect, but each has some kind of hook — either unexpectedly good construction, entertainingly inventive salaciousness, or historical import in and of itself. Enjoy! Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Grace Metalious’s 1956 classic of love, sex, and domestic violence in a tiny New England Hamlet was so scandalous that it was banned in Rhode Island.
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