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Aug 21, 2024 | 
service95.com | Jamie Styles |James Baldwin |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
Matt Haig, (c) Kan Lailey My Culture Hits, Book Club, Arts & Culture | By Matt Haig is an award-winning novelist and journalist perhaps best-known for his book The Midnight Library, a fantastical novel about Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death. He’s also the author of 2015’s Reasons To Stay Alive, in which he explores his own relationship with wellbeing.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
service95.com | James Baldwin |Olivia McCrea-Hedley
James Baldwin/William Baldwin Book Club, Arts & Culture, Books 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, author of seminal books including Giovanni’s Room, The Fire Next Time and If Beale Street Could Talk. He is often lauded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Ali Hazelwood |James Baldwin |Mark Twain |Richard Powers
A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science - from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on; the financial stability she yearned for as a kid; and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
readingmattersblog.com | James Baldwin
Fiction – paperback; Penguin Modern Classics; 160 pages; 2001. I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself in hereafter will remind me of Giovanni’s room. I did not really stay there very long — we met before the spring began and I left there during the summer — but it still seems to me that I spent a lifetime there.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer |James Baldwin |Anna Tubbs |Isabelle McConville
Where to Start Reading James Baldwin August 2nd is the 100th anniversary of James Baldwin’s birth, and though he died in 1987, his body of work still speaks to us as if it was written last year, or last month, or even last week.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | André Aciman |James Baldwin |Patricia Highsmith |Liz Riggs
There’s this song that I love that I listened to quite a bit in the Fall of 2021. It became a kind of North Star lyric as I was rewriting my novel, Lo Fi, as it encompassed a feeling my narrator was dealing with, fresh off a too-long situationship, trying to forget someone. I wasn’t going through any kind of breakup myself as I wrote, but I needed to channel those same emotions, so I listened over and over.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
penguin.co.uk | James Baldwin
'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
hunterandbligh.com.au | Hanya Yanagihara |James Baldwin |Dino Vlachos
Looking for a literary adventure that’s as colourful as a pride parade? We’ve found the best LGBT+ books for you to read!These novels, memoirs, and collections span genres and voices, offering stories that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even blush a little. So settle into your comfiest reading nook with a cup of something delicious, and turn the page to discover the stories that are sure to open your mind in 2024.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
nhpr.org | Andrew Greer |Walt Whitman |Mazey Eddings |James Baldwin
As two queer women who spearhead this monthly series, Pride month selections are always special. It’s a chance to create more visibility around our own community, and to invite people in. In a time when LGBTQ+ rights are still being debated and fought over, it feels especially important to shine a light on underrepresented voices, and to share the stories we tell about ourselves.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
eonline.com | Jen Beagin |James Baldwin
Swoon over the unexpected love story between Alex, the son of the president of the United States, and the fictional Prince Henry in this enemies-to-lovers page-turner. And then fall in love all over again watching the Prime Video adaptation—with a confirmed sequel on the way. International relations have never been so steamy. Patrick O’Hara is back for another adventure with his beloved niece and nephew. This time, they’re traveling to Italy ahead of his brother’s wedding.
