"For anyone who’s ever felt their body or identity takes up too much space, this deeply affecting story of doubt and and love is a gut-punch and a solace." ― ELLE, The 30 Most Anticipated New Books of Summer "This story about love, identity, gender and family is brilliantly written and questions the effects of maternal love." ― Good Morning America, 25 Novels You'll Want to Read this Summer Novels like these don't exist enough." ― O, The Oprah Magazine, 1 of 31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape This Year 'Some of these people don't need to be on Twitter because they already have all the access they need,' the fiction writer and critic Roxane Gay told me."My favorite Book of the year" - Roxane Gay One might argue that many critics' outright dismissal of the technology is directly related to their feelings of privilege. Anna Holmes writes about the value of Twitter in literary criticism: "It may not be a coincidence that in contrast to the shameful gender ratio endemic to so many literary publications, some of the most widely read critics on Twitter are women.We Need to Talk About Kevin author Lionel Shriver describes the daily life of a writer in The New Republic: "I have grown perversely nostalgic for my previous commercial failure - when my focus was pure, and the books were still fun to write, even if nobody read them.".It means you don't see her for a while, because she's a real person and it's a real thing." She's in it, and she lives with it, and sometimes it's better, and sometimes it's worse.
Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey tells The New York Times that consumers may be wary of the new Nook because of B&N's corporate struggles: "ill people perceive that Barnes & Noble as a company will be around to fulfill the promises that that device makes? It's a shadow that hangs over the entire Nook enterprise right now."
Publishers must opt-in, and as of Wednesday morning, some 75,000 ebooks were available for $2.99 or less.
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveils new Kindle reading devices during a 2012 news conference.