Search results for #GreatShortBooks
11 April 1987 #OTD Italian #writer and chemist Primo Levi died in Turin in what was ruled a suicide. His memoir of surviving Auschwitz, "If This Is a Man," is among the 58 works in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… via @ScribnerBooks #Read #books
10 April 1925 #OTD "The Great Gatsby" was published. When Fitzgerald died in 1940, his @nytimes obit read "The promise of his brilliant career was never fulfilled." "Gatsby" was forgotten. But it is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… via @ScribnerBooks
4 April 1914 Born #OTD in French Indochina, #writer Marguerite Duras. Best known for the screenplay of "Hiroshima mon amour," she won the Prix Goncourt for "The Lover" (1984). It is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… Art ©Sam Kerr @ScribnerBooks #Books
28 March 1941 #OTD #writer Virginia Woolf took her life. She is among the writers in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… and "The World in Books" (Oct) via @ScribnerBooks Her walking stick is in the @nypl "Treasures" collection nypl.org/events/exhibit… Portrait ©Sam Kerr
.@MargaretAtwood on @StephenKing nytimes.com/2024/03/25/boo… Both happen to be among the 58 #writers in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… #OpenBooksOpenMinds #Read
21 March 2013 Died #OTD Nigerian #writer Chinua Achebe (b. 11/16/1930). “He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” "Things Fall Apart" is one of 58 works in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… Art © Sam Kerr via @ScribnerBooks
19 March 1933 Born #OTD in Newark, NJ #writer Philip Roth, winner of @PulitzerPrizes, Man Booker International Prize, PEN Faulkner award, National Book Award. "The Ghost Writer" is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… Art © Sam Kerr via @ScribnerBooks #Read
Getting to interesting list of "Great American Novels" via @atlantic theatlantic.com/books/archive/… Pleased to see many of the #books and #writers are in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/03/great-… Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Morrison, McCullers, EB White, and more.
On #InternationalWomensDay a suggestion: read the great international #writers in #GreatShortBooks: Sagan, O'Brien, Ginzburg, @NobelPrize laureates Lessing, Gordimer, and Morrison, Ferrante, Atwood, Woolf, Rhys, Winterson, Yu Miri, Slimani dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… Art ©SamKerr
6 March 1927 Born #OTD in Aracataca, Colombia, #writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner @NobelPrize in 1982. He is one of 11 Nobel laureates in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… #OpenBooksOpenMinds #Read #Books
3 March 1996 #writer Marguerite Duras died #OTD in Paris. Famed for the "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" screenplay, her novel "The Lover" won the 1984 Prix Goncourt--among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… Art©Sam Kerr via @ScribnerBooks
Other wonderful #GreatShortBooks are works by McCullers, Woolf, Kincaid, @NobelPrize laureates Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing, and works in translation by Duras, Sagan, Ferrante, Natalia Ginzburg, Lispector and Leïla Slimani #WomensHistoryMonth dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… #Read
Other wonderful #GreatShortBooks are works by McCullers, Woolf, Kincaid, @NobelPrize laureates Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing, and works in translation by Duras, Sagan, Ferrante, Natalia Ginzburg, Lispector and Leïla Slimani #WomensHistoryMonth dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… #Read
A good way to open #WomensHistoryMonth. Read great #writers. Half of the 58 in #GreatShortBooks are women. Among them: Chopin, Wharton, Christie, Rhys, Edna O'Brien, Winterson, Gordimer, @MargaretAtwood @JackieWoodson dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… Art ©Sam Kerr via @ScribnerBooks
I also recommend "Another Brooklyn" by @JackieWoodson. It is among the 58 selections in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… (which was also previously named a @nypl "Book of the Day").
I also recommend "Another Brooklyn" by @JackieWoodson. It is among the 58 selections in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… (which was also previously named a @nypl "Book of the Day").
25 Feb 1917 prolific #writer Anthony Burgess, best known for "A Clockwork Orange" (1962), with an ending not used by Kubrick. It is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/02/great-… Art ©Sam Kerr @ScribnerBooks
Excellent resource via @UABookBans @ALALibrary I have noted that more than half of the #writers selected in #GreatShortBooks have been censored or had books burned. Several are on this list including George Orwell, "Maus," @JackieWoodson and Toni Morrison #OpenBooksOpenMinds
Excellent resource via @UABookBans @ALALibrary I have noted that more than half of the #writers selected in #GreatShortBooks have been censored or had books burned. Several are on this list including George Orwell, "Maus," @JackieWoodson and Toni Morrison #OpenBooksOpenMinds
19 Feb 1917 Born #OTD Lula Carson Smith who went on to fame as #writer Carson McCullers. "The Ballad of the Sad Café" (1951) is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks: A Year of Reading-Briefly dontknowmuch.com/2024/01/great-… via @ScribnerBooks Carl Van Vechten photo via @librarycongress
“It was too cool for ice cream. A hill wind was blowing dust and empty Camel wrappers about their ankles.” --"Sula" (1973) Savor its beautiful language. I call many of these #GreatShortBooks "steppingstones"-to be read before moving on to other works like "Beloved." #Read #Books
“It was too cool for ice cream. A hill wind was blowing dust and empty Camel wrappers about their ankles.” --"Sula" (1973) Savor its beautiful language. I call many of these #GreatShortBooks "steppingstones"-to be read before moving on to other works like "Beloved." #Read #Books
18 Feb 1931 Born #OTD Toni Morrison, winner @NobelPrize and @PulitzerPrizes ("Beloved"). She is among 58 writers-11 Nobel laureates-in #GreatShortBooks Her work, including "Sula," is frequently banned dontknowmuch.com/2024/01/great-… Art © Sam Kerr @ScribnerBooks #OpenBooksOpenMinds
15 Feb 1948 Born #OTD Art Spiegelman #author of "Maus"-winner @PulitzerPrizes and subject of solo show at @MuseumModernArt. He spoke about banning the book oif.ala.org/art-spiegelman… via @OIF. It is among 58 works in #GreatShortBooks dontknowmuch.com/2024/01/great-… Image @penguinrandom
