Colin Dwyer

Portland

Reporter, Newsdesk at Freelance

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New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

1 week ago | mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer

Some weeks more than others demand that we take a breather or two from the news cycle, if only to mitigate the onset of debilitating ennui or despair. That’s not to say that everyone answers this call, or that a break should lapse into long-term indifference — but pausing the ol’ firehose of upheaval and violence every now and then can do wonders for one's state of mind. That’s a roundabout way of saying: Anybody else up for some fiction this week?
New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

1 week ago | wusf.org | Colin Dwyer

Some weeks more than others demand that we take a breather or two from the news cycle, if only to mitigate the onset of debilitating ennui or despair. That's not to say that everyone answers this call, or that a break should lapse into long-term indifference – but pausing the ol' firehose of upheaval and violence every now and then can do wonders for one's state of mind. That's a roundabout way of saying: Anybody else up for some fiction this week?
New books this week cover problematic parents, the ultrarich, and a year without sex

3 weeks ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer

"They f*** you up, your mum and dad," Philip Larkin once memorably wrote. "They may not mean to, but they do."Now surely the great British poet and novelist, who died three decades ago, did not set out to sum up the books coming out this week, but his famous line does a rather effective job of it anyway.
5 new books this week spotlight Joe Biden, the WNBA, rivers, migrants and autofiction

1 month ago | mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer

Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden’s team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian’s alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?
5 new books this week spotlight Joe Biden, the WNBA, rivers, migrants and autofiction

1 month ago | nhpr.org | Colin Dwyer

Strap in, folks: This week the publishing calendar is putting some difficult questions on the table, which range from pressing political concerns to perspective-altering riddles about life itself. For instance, what did former President Joe Biden's team know — and choose to do — about the octogenarian's alleged mental and physical decline during his ill-fated reelection campaign?
5 new books to check out this week - including Isabel Allende's latest

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Colin Dwyer

A true titan of world letters returns to the page this week. Granted, it's not as if Isabel Allende ever really left. The prodigious Chilean expat, now in her 80s, continues to publish as quickly as ever. My Name Is Emilia Del Valle, due out this week, is Allende's seventh novel in the past decade.
There's some Revolutionary reading coming your way this week

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Colin Dwyer

It must be something of a deflating time for Revolutionary War reenactors. The 250th anniversary of the war's opening shots at Lexington came and went earlier this month. And while the date was certainly commemorated with gusto, there won't be another major battle to reenact until June, at the earliest. Fortunately there's consolation on this week's publishing calendar: The second volume in Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution.
5 notable new books that are all over the map (in a good way)

2 months ago | wuwf.org | Colin Dwyer

Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week's notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn't overthink this one.
5 notable new books that are all over the map (in a good way)

2 months ago | mprnews.org | Colin Dwyer

Woe betide the poor soul looking for a snappy unifying theme in this week’s notable new reads. These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush, fantastical landscapes. There are no easy throughlines here, in other words. Then again, perhaps we shouldn’t overthink this one.
6 tales of mystery and mishap - all hitting book stores on April Fools' Day

2 months ago | tpr.org | Colin Dwyer

Don't worry, you've come to a safe space. To be clear, the same can't be said for the rest of the internet, which every April Fools' Day lards its usual mystery blend of fact, rumor and misinformation with, well, still more misinformation — this time in the service of what some allege to be humor. But you've found sanctuary in the next few hundred words, promise.

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