In Honor of Duke Ellington: Here Are 15 Great Books About Jazz

Ed Simon Recommends Langston Hughes, Dorothy Baker, Geoff Dyer, and More

https://lithub.com/in-honor-of-duke-ellington-here-are-15-great-books-about-jazz/

THE JOURNALIST BIOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF CRISIS

A memoir by Nicholas Kristof and a biography of Barbara Walters invoke halcyon days in the news business. What can we learn from their lives?

https://apple.news/AFSclVoSXTEe4jyCUH8CK3g

 

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker prize 

Erpenbeck is the first German writer and Michael Hofmann the first male translator to win the £50,000 prize for novel which tells 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/21/jenny-erpenbeck-michael-hofmann-win-2024-international-booker-prize-kairos

 

THOMAS MCGUANE ON SMALL-TOWN AMERICA

The author discusses his story “Thataway.

https://apple.news/AYfo15bNWQye1o-lB2LuHLw

At last, a midlife-crisis novel that’s not about a man

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-15/review-miranda-july-all-fours-novel

 

ALICE MUNRO REINVIGORATED THE SHORT STORY

Working with the author, who has died, at ninety-two, was both a thrill and a lesson in intentionality

https://apple.news/AWnUXtbIZQneL-y0mbaIrxQ

 

Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’

Rachel Cooke

The author of bestseller Yellowface on her agent’s fears about publishing the novel, the joys of a social media purge and being a workaholic who gets bored easily

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/04/rebecca-f-kuang-yellowface-joan-didion-poppy-war-babel