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Nov 7, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Ilyon Woo
The writer at the piano, in mock frustration.from Ilyon WooOne of my all-time favorite TV characters is Sesame Street’s Don Music.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Jonathan Eig |Ilyon Woo |Jonny Steinberg |Jackie Wullschlager
Biography is a sprawling genre, which can be difficult for the lay person to keep track of. Those who love historical biographies are not necessarily interested in, say, philosophical biographies or sporting biographies, and these books might not even be displayed in the same area of a bookshop—rather being distributed on the shelves relating to their subjects’ areas of expertise.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Ilyon Woo |Rachel Meredith Kousser
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In literary history, there are few constants like the writers’ feud. Aristophanes mocked Euripides; Dante put the contemporary poet Brunetto Latini in Hell; Norman Mailer famously head-butted Gore Vidal. But, as we’ve learned, it doesn’t have to be that way. Our partnership began almost twenty-five years ago when we first became running partners. Our initial goal was to run a marathon.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
simonandschuster.com | Ilyon Woo |Stephen King |Ruth Ware |Adam Higginbotham
Master Slave Husband Wife An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters.” —The Pulitzer Prizes Trade...
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May 20, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Ilyon Woo
I’ve never heard an Asian woman—certainly not one in her eighties—cuss as exuberantly or continually as the late filmmaker Dai Sil Kim Gibson. I picture her throwing her head back, glass raised, cackling at the sound of her own F-bombs, her wild hair shaking: kinetic iron spirals. She cooked like she lived and filmed, with feeling. She made the best bindaetok, or Korean mung bean pancakes, rushed, hot, and crusted.
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May 9, 2024 | 
audible.com | Jayne Phillips |Ed Park |Yiyun Li |Ilyon Woo
Finalist: Memoir or AutobiographyWritten and narrated by Jonathan Rosen. When his family moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen found a new best friend—and keen competitor—in Michael Laudor. Both children of college professors, the boys became inseparable, and, when they both got into Yale, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.
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May 7, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Jonathan Eig |Ilyon Woo |Jayne Phillips
2024 Pulitzer Prize Winners In the early 1900s, lauded journalist and politician Joseph Pulitzer created one of the most coveted awards in all of journalism, music, drama and book publishing. Year after year, brand new stories are recognized for their indelible contributions, from fiction and biographies to history and poetry. Without further ado, join us in celebrating the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
thewholeu.uw.edu | Bonnie Garmus |Jonathan Raban |Ilyon Woo |Chloe Gong
University Book Store staff recommends a dozen enthralling books of love Posted on by University Book Store. This entry was posted in Engaging Interests and tagged university book store. Bookmark the permalink. Who wrote the book of love?
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
francesdinkelspiel.com | Ilyon Woo |Adam Nagourney |S.A. Cosby |Frances Dinkelspiel
I love writing about my favorite books of the year. I started the practice at Berkeleyside, the news site I co-founded in 2009, where it continues. I wanted to make a list for 2023 but thought experimenting would make it more interesting. So, I wrote up my list. Then I fed the titles into Chat GBT, the AI platform, to see what it would generate. What a difference! Look below to see the limitations of artificial intelligence.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
simonandschuster.com | Leon Nixon |Janina Edwards |Ilyon Woo
About The Book One of The New York Times’s10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah DailyThe remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
