December 20, 2012
Welcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis.
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Welcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis.
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the geeky ... My year in evolving books, from coded poetry to cartoon journalism to plain old rock-and-roll.
Read MoreA weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith explains where her love for poetry began.
Read MoreFor a long time, I thought poetry was for people who cultivated smug aloofness. Not anymore. For proof that poetry can serve as an offering of connectedness, check out Transylvanian-American poet Andrei Codrescu’s So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems 1968-2012 — or, if you live in New York or St. Paul, simply go outside with your eyes open.
Read MoreIn this new series, Julia Langbein describes a book that does not exist: a book based on a recent curiosity from the real world; a book that, ideally, you will write. The first installment concerns the "accidental" razing of an 18th-century chateau by a Russian tycoon, and the novel — part Constant Gardener, part European Vacation — that it should inspire.
Read MoreWelcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá.
Read MoreWhat does Black Balloon love if not strange, wonderful books that upend our traditional ideas of a story? Now that it’s December, I’d love to highlight a few of the most unusual titles of 2012. Whether you favor fiction, history, or sequential art, there's something for you among these five books.
Read MoreWelcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace.
Read MoreLast Thursday, a group of writers, publishers, developers, and journalists rallied to the first ever Twitter Fiction Festival. BB intern Rebecca Hoffman was there, smartphone and complimentary cocktail in hand.
Read MoreThe Silent History is a cool experiment in fiction: a novel in the form of an app that releases installments, including geo-specific "Field Reports," every day. So two months in to its six-month launch, how does the book read? Where does it read best? And is it, you know, good? Here are a few of the places and times I've been in the company of The Silent History.
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