Stacey Abrams says there’s a book the President ought to read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/books/review/stacey-abrams-by-the-book-interview.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

I stopped in the big Barnes & Noble store close to me on Union Square a couple days ago. It has such well-lit, high-ceiling elbow room, it’s an unusual New York store. I wander around its four floors sometimes. On the third floor there are rows of magazines. Rows and rows. For kids too. You forget how many magazines there are. And how good they look. 

 

Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron is writing a book about Trump and Jeff Bezos and the future of journalism. Here’s a piece in the Post about it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/martin-baron-book-news/2021/04/28/9d82912c-a832-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

Thomas McGuane reads his story from the May 10, 2021, issue of ‘The New Yorker’. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

https://apple.news/AK2gXaSR6T4eXMMpycNPWxg

 

An obituary in the Times. I knew of Grove Press and ‘Evergreen Review’. You may have too. Even if you didn’t, an interesting guy’s life, Fred Jordan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/books/fred-jordan-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

In today’s Times:

      Where should you buy your books now? 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/books/books-to-buy-price-selection-authors.html?referringSource=articleShare

A British study found kids read more challenging books during the lockdown. From The Guardian:

‘ ...three in five children said reading made them feel better during lockdown, while 32% said reading has helped them when they felt sad about not being able to see friends or family.’

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/29/children-read-longer-more-challenging-books-in-lockdown?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other