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The Book Club Bible is a non-fiction anthology of literary review, with a foreword by Lionel Shriver, whose novel We Need to Talk About Kevin has its own prominent entry. [1] Aside from providing a synopsis for each book, the text also features background information on the author, suggested comparison volumes, a detailed historical context and ...
Bookclub is a monthly programme, devised by Olivia Seligman and hosted by Jim Naughtie and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Each month a novel is selected, and its author invited to discuss it.
David Charles Ammon Hillman is an American classicist, known for his re-interpreting of Christianity.He was a professor at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, before his firing after translating a production of Medea that the school's faculty found unsettling.
Book Riot [31] Iain Dale’s Book Club: 2018–present Iain Dale: LBC [32] Borrowed: London Review of Books [33] The Writer's Almanac: So Many Damn Books: 2014-Present Christopher Hermelin and Drew Broussard Independent [34] Dear Book Nerd [35] Overdue: 2013–Present Craig Getting, Andrew Cunningham Headgum [36] [37] If Books Could Kill: 2022 ...
The first half, Lost Books of the Bible, is an unimproved reprint of a book published by William Hone in 1820, titled The Apocryphal New Testament, itself a reprint of a translation of the Apostolic Fathers done in 1693 by William Wake, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a smattering of medieval embellishments on the New ...
Explores a selection of cases in which people have gone missing, including a case in which a captain and his valet disappeared. According to the story, the captain and valet looked very similar. One night in 1812, in the city of Danzig, Poland, the captain was found dead in his room after a night of heavy drinking. The valet swapped clothes ...
The show has been running since 1989 and has since become available as a podcast. [1] Silverblatt was unpaid for the first five years that he hosted the show until receiving the "Lannan Literary Grant" from the Lannan Foundation. [2] [3] The show aired on KCRW-FM (89.9) in Santa Monica on Thursdays at 2:30pm. [4]
In 2017, Marc Hershon of Vulture praised the first season of the podcast as a "comedically brutal thrashing" of Ready Player One. [4] The A.V. Club's Mike Vanderbilt interviewed Nelson and Lastowka in 2018. [5] In 2019, Alice Nuttall of Book Riot wrote, "Nelson and Lastowka spin bad books into gold. Listening to an episode is like sitting in on ...