Andy Anderegg

2 weeks ago | shelf-awareness.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn |John Kenney |Andy Anderegg |Annika Norlin

Tomorrow is the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day! The event began in 2014 as California Bookstore Day, and has since grown in popularity to be an international celebration. It's a perfect day to support local bookstores, even stores that aren't participating. Many avid readers visit as many indie bookstores as they can in a single day. While you're out partying with your favorite booksellers, be sure to look for exciting new releases like The Trees Are Speaking by Lynda V.

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Allie Rowbottom |George Wylesol |Julia Wertz |Andy Anderegg

Reading Lists These novels explore what it means to come of age in the online generation I’ve watched so many hours of video, maybe you have too, and I’ve seen people on the internet rise and fall, disappear. I’ve wondered about them after, millions of us have. I’ve even uploaded a few videos myself, but when two comments came through about my glasses, I took it as a turning point. Either I was going to tell them my prescription and shoot a video where I took my glasses on and off, like...

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Ocean Vuong |Andy Anderegg |Sulaiman Addonia |Guadalupe Nettel

Ocean Vuong. Penguin Press, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-83187-8Poet Vuong follows up his acclaimed first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, with a searching and beautiful story of a troubled young man. “The hardest thing in the world is to live only once,” 19-year-old Hai narrates in the opening line, but there’s a dark edge to the sentiment. The reader first meets Hai on a bridge in East Gladness, Conn., where he’s about to jump to his death.