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a: A Novel was the second of several publishing projects Andy Warhol produced in his lifetime. Warhol wanted to be a writer but, much like his film work, spontaneous performances and an explicit lack of editing was used as a device. [1] Warhol wanted to write a "bad" novel, "because doing something the wrong way always opens doors". [2]
The Season of Styx Malone was especially praised by critics, also earning a starred review from Shelf Awareness [26] and The Horn Book, [27] and being named one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews. [22] X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, was one of five novels in 2015 to receive six starred reviews. [28]
The following day, Diana and Lissa enter the Old Willis Place, where Lissa feels compelled to see the locked parlor where Lilian Willis died. In spite of Diana's attempts to stop her, she opens the parlor door, freeing Miss Lilian's malevolent spirit .
At first, this silent book club was loud. On a recent Saturday, two dozen people gathered in the back of Cream & Amber, a cafe and bookstore in Hopkins, chatting and laughing with the people ...
The story follows English professor Adam Snell as he realizes that someone is trying to kill both him and his book, Sovrana Sostrata, a book about truth.As a metafiction work the novel parodies literary forms—each chapter is told in a different style ranging from traditional linear drama, to newspaper reports, to a playwright's script, to a carefully annotated scholarly work from the 19th ...
McTeague is a dentist of limited intellect from a poor miner's family who has opened a dentist shop on Polk Street in San Francisco (his first name is never revealed; other characters in the novel call him simply "Mac."). His best friend, Marcus Schouler, brings his cousin, Trina Sieppe, whom he's courting, to McTeague's parlor for dental work.
Barbara Brooks Wallace (December 3, 1922 – November 27, 2018) was an American children's writer. She won the NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia (2001) and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor (1983).
Sales of Colleen Hoover's 2016 romance novel "It Ends with Us," for instance, jumped 650% in 2021, selling 1.9 million copies after going viral on TikTok five years after it was originally published.