I’ve come across lots of interesting stuff lately.
When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
I’m including this article on all my blogs this week because it’s important that everyone with any online presence, no matter how small, read it.
50 MUST-READ CONTEMPORARY ESSAY COLLECTIONS
From Book Riot’s Liberty Hardy:
To prove that there are a zillion amazing essay collections out there, I compiled 50 great contemporary essay collections, just from the last 18 months alone. Ranging in topics from food, nature, politics, sex, celebrity, and more, there is something here for everyone!
LIGHTHEARTED BOOKS TO READ WHEN LIFE IS HARD
Sometimes a book like this is exactly what we need. From Book Riot’s Heather Bottoms:
When I’m feeling worn down, reading is a much-needed escape and comfort, but I need a book that is less emotionally taxing. I don’t want to be blindsided by a heart-wrenching death, intense family trauma, or weighty subject matter. What I need is a palate cleanser, lighthearted books to help me decompress a bit and provide a happy diversion. Here are some of my favorites. These lighthearted books are charming, soothing, funny, warm-hearted, and just the break you need when life is hard.
The Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)
Esquire offers its top–20 list of this year’s movies, some of which are based on books. I have seen exactly zero of these and hadn’t even heard of many on the list.
What about you? How many of these have you seen? Are they as good as presented here?
SALMAN RUSHDIE: MY NEW BOOK KNEW TRUMP WOULD WIN — EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T
OZY interviews Salman Rushdie.
DONALD TRUMP DOESN’T APPEAR IN YOUR NEWEST NOVEL, THE GOLDEN HOUSE … BUT YOU’VE SAID HE WAS PART OF THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE CHARACTER OF THE JOKER.
Rushdie: It tries to do that risky thing of writing about the exact moment the book is written in. There isn’t anybody called Donald Trump in the book. But it occurred to me that in a deck of playing cards, there are only two cards that behave badly: One of them is the trump and the other is the joker. I thought, if I can’t have the Trump, I’ll have the Joker. He becomes my stand-in for Trump.
Famous writers and their vices: why we can’t get enough of them
Whether it’s Hemingway or F Scott Fitzgerald, we relish writers stepping into their pages
© 2018 by Mary Daniels Brown
