Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon by Toni Morrison is a masterclass lecture collection from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University. She interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, and the way their black characters shaped the nation’s collective unconscious, and helped manufacturer American racial identity. A timely read for Black History …
Gratz takes the reader right into the duality of Berlin during the 1936 Olympics — a city being purged of any ‘undesirable’ citizens to put on a good show for the world. Gratz does not shy away from the comparison between 1936 Germany and 2025 America. This is a timely book that every middle-grade reader, …
From Roundabout Books’ newsletter: [T]he 2025 longlist for The Booker Prize was announced, and since it’s one of my favorite literary lists, I thought I’d take this chance to pitch a Booker book for your late summer reading enjoyment. And yes – I said enjoyment. Officially, the Booker prize is awarded to a work of fiction written in English and published in the …
Roundabout Books in Bend, OR suggests 15 perfect books to gift for Father‘s Day. Give the gift of quiet reading time for the great Dad in your life! Here are some of our favorite recommendations for Father‘s Day, Sunday, June 15th. FICTION Beartooth by Callan Wink Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart Never Flinch by Stephen King The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen …
From The Bend Source Weekly, by Jared Rasic: To be a truly remarkable bookstore is to find an alchemical balance that can’t really be explained to someone with only a passing interest in the literary arts. Bookstores have outlasted most CD shops, video stores and video game stops and remained near-sacrosanct spaces for people to …
The Winners of the Susan Kamil Scholarship for Emerging Writers Congratulations to the five writer-booksellers who have been selected to receive the $10,000 Susan Kamil Scholarship for Emerging Writers. The Susan Kamil Scholarship was established by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and bestselling author Charles Duhigg and Liz Alter, a professor of biology at California State University Monterey …
Poet E.J. Wade interviewed Oregon novelist Karen Spears Zacharias. E.J.: Karen, you are the author of several books including the bestselling Will Jesus Buy Me a Doublewide, Mother of Rain, Burdy, A Silence of Mockingbirds, After the Flag Has Been Folded, and The Murder Gene. We love your books, dauntless stories about women who navigate …
From Third Place Books on Instagram: Everything seems trite so I’ll just say: here are a few titles we are not sold out of. Anything we are sold out of but can get for you, we will order. The least that we can do to help the situation is to educate ourselves.
Roundabout Books in Bend, OR started an indiegogo campaign to help keep the bookstore, which opened in 2016, healthy and growing. The campaign’s flexible goal is to reach $40,000 in the next month; as of this write-up, they are over a quarter of the way to their goal. Check out the snazzy campaign they’ve designed, …
Saturday, April 28, 2018, is Independent Bookstore Day. Local, independent bookstores around the country and their fans will celebrate. Click here to find participating bookstores near you. (Please note: Even more stores than are listed on the map may be doing something special. They just might have missed the deadline to sign up for inclusion …
