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Oct 27, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Jayne Phillips
ABSTRACTCambridge Analytica was a political consulting business that became known for its use of personal data obtained from social media platform Facebook, to drive election campaigns on behalf of its clients. Their most famous client was the winner of the 2016 US Presidential election. When it was realised that Cambridge Analytica had acquired Australian Facebook users’ data, the Australian privacy regulator started litigation against Facebook to enforce the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
ruhlman.substack.com | Jayne Phillips |Michael Ruhlman
We had one tomato left when we departed Westport, and it was too lovely to leave behind. We carried it with us to Providence. But we still didn’t eat it there. When we left Providence to return to NYC, I brought it with us. And there it sat fetchingly on the kitchen table on West 12th Street. The following morning, last Sunday, Ann knew exactly what she was going to do with it.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
audible.com | Valerie Bauerlein |Jayne Phillips |Holly Jackson |George Martin
By: Colleen Hoover Narrated by: Olivia Song Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins Unabridged Overall 4.5 out of 5 stars 80,047 Performance 4.5 out of 5 stars 70,661 Story 4.5 out of 5 stars 70,511 Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle...
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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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May 6, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Emily Temple |Jayne Phillips |Yiyun Li |Eboni Booth
The winners and nominated finalists of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by administrator Marjorie Miller via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention a ticket into a very illustrious club. The full list of winners and nominated finalists from the arts & letters categories is below.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Jayne Phillips
How many ways can a work of fiction be woven into the facts of a bygone era? Most historic novels tap the “based on true events” template, where either imagined characters conveniently wander into moments ripped from the front-page news of the day, or the names we remember from our textbooks step out of the limelight and interact with common folk — think The Good Lord Bird or Forrest Gump. Both are familiar tropes, easily reckoned and often repeated.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Jayne Phillips |Alfred A. Knopf
NIGHT WATCH, by Jayne Anne PhillipsJayne Anne Phillips's new novel, "Night Watch," about a woman and her daughter in a genteel asylum in West Virginia around the time of the Civil War, is sludgy, claustrophobic and pretentious. Each succeeding paragraph took something out of me. It hurts to say this because my feelings about her work are, more so than usual, personal.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jayne Phillips |Colleen Hoover |Susan Mallery
Through palpable tension balanced with glimmers of hope, Hoover beautifully captures the heartbreak and joy of starting over. Awards & Accolades Likes 103 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother. Lily Bloom is still running a flower shop; her abusive ex-husband, Ryle Kincaid, is still a surgeon.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Jayne Phillips
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world.
