Tom Beer
Editor-in-Chief at Kirkus Reviews
Editor in chief @kirkusreviews, @bookcritics member, former books & travel editor @newsday. Ask me what I’m reading.
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3 weeks ago |
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Beer
Three years ago, bookseller Lori Feathers of Interabang Books in Dallas helped import a new literary prize to the United States and Canada: one recognizing the copious treasures coming out of small presses here.
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4 weeks ago |
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Beer
How do you recapture the past? You could flip through the pages of a photo album or old diary, or listen to an old playlist that evokes a particular time in your life. If you’re a hardcore reader, as I am, you might well scan your bookshelves and recall when and where you read certain titles.
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1 month ago |
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Beer
One of the great literary discoveries of the past decade, for the English-speaking world, is the work of Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the sui generis writer who was born in Ukraine but lived most of her life in Brazil after her Jewish family fled pogroms.
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1 month ago |
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Beer
“I want people to finish this book feeling a bit better about human beings and life in general,” says Jojo Moyes about her 18th novel, We All Live Here, published by Pamela Dorman/Viking on Feb. 11. Moyes has been publishing fiction since 2002, but she really broke out a decade later with Me Before You, the story of a man embittered by life after an accident renders him quadriplegic, and the aimless young waitress who is hired to be his caregiver.
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2 months ago |
kirkusreviews.com | Tom Beer
When you’re in the business of reviewing books, as we are here at Kirkus Reviews, there are a couple of thrills unique to the job. One is getting your hands on an early copy of a book by a writer you love. Who can resist what used to be called, on BookTwitter, a galleybrag? I’ll make one now by telling you I received—and am currently devouring—an advanced reading copy of Dream Count (Knopf, March 4), the first novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie since the acclaimed Americanah back in 2013.
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