"I wanted to write a story about two 12-year-old boys that are thrust into an unmanageable adult world that taxes their relationship to the breaking point." Great Q&A with E. Davis Enloe about his debut novel, INTO THE NIGHT WOODS, via @deborahkalb: https://t.co/CisB5UlM0s
1/ I grew up playing baseball at a high level. Something has changed over the last 20 years. Community leagues have been raided by elite travel teams charging outrageous fees and promising stardom.
Private equity has come for youth sports. @moetkacik in @TheProspect:
"For the reader to truly enjoy my work I try to transport them into the setting and make the places stand out as a character in the story themselves." Allen Saxon discussing his New Orleans-based novel, TRAINING IN CHARITY, via @deborahkalb: https://t.co/z0ioRwVqv8 @xmaslakepress
Listen to THE PARADOX OF PASSION author Bobby Hoffman on @VoiceAmericaTRN's The Lebenthal Report discussing the psychology behind motivation, passion, & decision-making—and how those forces influence investor behavior: https://t.co/EYijyFQMOL @BloomsburyAcad@lebenthal1@ifoundmo
"There were few reports in the literature that included the lifelong internal experiences of someone with a major mental illness." @EllenBassuk and Daniel Schoonover on why they wrote BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, via @deborahkalb: https://t.co/leqaizge2E @BloomsburyAcad
Congratulations to all of the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards nominees, including @KaplanCarla in the biography category for TROUBLEMAKER: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford. Full list here: https://t.co/jgp2SNYnJk @harperbooks@HarperCollins@PENamerica
"Eugenics is the theory that arose in the late 1800s that certain hereditary lines are just superior...We are still trapped in some of the same thinking." Listen to Susanne Antonetta on @irwinsh's @WGVURadio show discussing her book, THE DEVIL'S CASTLE: https://t.co/xhbQbAMfHz
Listen to Susanne Antonetta on the Dialogues in Holocaust Studies & the Second World War podcast discussing her book, THE DEVIL'S CASTLE: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s
Troubled History Reverberates Today. https://t.co/kkXWYQYjOM @CounterpointLLC@JillGrinbergLit
"Mental health labels seem to take over & once somebody has the label it seems that other people, the healthcare system, no longer see them as a person." Listen to @EllenBassuk & Dan Schoonover on @wcooperbooks' Books & More discussing BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: https://t.co/SV0gC5KZPi
"Nobody's going to understand how AI is going to affect your community better than you." Listen to @DavidEliot_13, author of ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT: The Very Human Story of AI, on Courage to Advance. https://t.co/3Ht2edZ9Gz. @utpress
Breaking: US Navy deleted video of October 17 boat strike survivors. In this attack, two men were rescued and detained on USS Iwo Jima. Navy was ordered to delete photos/videos, ship document reveals. https://t.co/EO7F0Nb0Lx
"Different countries do things differently in terms of facing their own past." Listen to @anne_hand on Rick Flynn Presents discussing her book, AUSTRIAN AGAIN: Reclaiming a Lost Legacy. https://t.co/vNcy9MZ73I @AmsterdamPB
"Jessica Mitford made the widest leap you can imagine in her life from the British aristocracy to American communism to muckraking, & she was extraordinarily successful as a writer & a civil rights activist." TROUBLEMAKER's @KaplanCarla on the @StuphFile: https://t.co/wIUR16LGt4
"Every class will do its part to make our local bicentennial just as memorable as our national bicentennial.
Of course, you children are too young to remember that, with the possible exception of Kearney."
"Those tall ships really lifted the nation's spirits after Watergate."
"I was grieving this very real being that I had shared my body with, and he was grieving an idea." Listen to Kelly Cervantes on @WHKY discussing how couples process pregnancy loss differently and her memoir, THE LUCKIEST: https://t.co/R4GlHirp7W @BenBellaBooks